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Mea-pehtct-Ea.
$\
Hamses I.
Maat-nien-Ra.
1
Meneptah I., Seti I.
Ra-user-maat-Sotep-en-Ra.
Hotep-her-maat.
Ramses II., Meri-Amen.
CHAPTER XI.
DYNASTY XIX.'
Men-pehtet-Ra. Ra-messu. (Rajises I.) B.C. 1400 cm.
The death of King Hor-em-heb closed the Eighteenth
Dynasty. The heretic king Khu-n-aten had by his
teaching about Amen somewhat diminished his prestige
m the eyes of the orthodox priests and people, and had
created a schism in the internal life of the nation, for the
new teaching, with its Semitic origin, had gained many
adherents among the Egyptians. How peace was
brought about it is now difficult to say, but Hor-em-heb
certainly appeared as a mediator between the adherents
°f Amen and the persecuted followers of the god of the
Solar Disk.
While the kingdom was being disturbed by this
burning question a nation on the north-east had been
growing up, which now began to endanger the Egyptian
supremacy in Western Asia. Already during these
annual wars, undertaken by Tehuti-mes III. against the
Syrian peoples, the Kheta, under the leadership of their
own kings, had shown themselves to be a dominant race.
Contemporary inscriptions designate them as ' the great
people,' or ' the great country,' less with respect to the
space they occupied, than from their just reputation for
those brave and chivalrous qualities which they were
acknowledged even by their enemies to possess. We
believe we are falling into no error if we recognise in
1 For Table of Kings see p. xxiii.
$\
Hamses I.
Maat-nien-Ra.
1
Meneptah I., Seti I.
Ra-user-maat-Sotep-en-Ra.
Hotep-her-maat.
Ramses II., Meri-Amen.
CHAPTER XI.
DYNASTY XIX.'
Men-pehtet-Ra. Ra-messu. (Rajises I.) B.C. 1400 cm.
The death of King Hor-em-heb closed the Eighteenth
Dynasty. The heretic king Khu-n-aten had by his
teaching about Amen somewhat diminished his prestige
m the eyes of the orthodox priests and people, and had
created a schism in the internal life of the nation, for the
new teaching, with its Semitic origin, had gained many
adherents among the Egyptians. How peace was
brought about it is now difficult to say, but Hor-em-heb
certainly appeared as a mediator between the adherents
°f Amen and the persecuted followers of the god of the
Solar Disk.
While the kingdom was being disturbed by this
burning question a nation on the north-east had been
growing up, which now began to endanger the Egyptian
supremacy in Western Asia. Already during these
annual wars, undertaken by Tehuti-mes III. against the
Syrian peoples, the Kheta, under the leadership of their
own kings, had shown themselves to be a dominant race.
Contemporary inscriptions designate them as ' the great
people,' or ' the great country,' less with respect to the
space they occupied, than from their just reputation for
those brave and chivalrous qualities which they were
acknowledged even by their enemies to possess. We
believe we are falling into no error if we recognise in
1 For Table of Kings see p. xxiii.