Amenhotep II: Perbedaan antara revisi

 

==Foreign affairs==

Amenhotep's first campaign took place in his third regnal year.<ref name="Gardiner 200">Gardiner, Alan. ''Egypt of the Pharaohs.'' p. 200. Oxford University Press, 1964.</ref> It is known that the pharaoh was attacked by the host of [[Qatna]] while crossing the [[Orontes river]], but he emerged victorious and acquired rich booty, among which even the equipment of a Mitanni charioteer is mentioned. The king was well known for his physical prowess and is said to have singlehandedly killed 7 rebel Princes at [[Kadesh]], which successfully terminated his first Syrian campaign on a victorious note.<ref>Grimal, ''A History of Ancient Egypt'', p.218</ref> After the campaign, the king ordered the bodies of the seven princes to be hung upside down on the prow of his ship.<ref>Grimal, Nicolas. ''A History of Ancient Egypt.'' p.218. Librairie Arthéme Fayard, 1988.</ref> Upon reaching [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]] all but one of the princes were mounted on the city walls.<ref name="Grimal, p.218">Grimal, p.218</ref> The other was taken to the often rebellious territory of [[Nubia]] and hung on the city wall of [[Napata]], as an example of the consequence of rising against Pharaoh and to demoralise any Nubian opponents of Egyptian authority there.<ref name="Grimal, p.218"/> Amenhotep called this campaign his first in a Stele from Amada, however he also called his second campaign his first, causing some confusion.<ref name="Gardiner 200"/> The most common solution for this, although not universally accepted, is that this was the first campaign he fought alone before the death of his father and thus before he was the sole king of Egypt, and he counted his second campaign as his first because it was the first that was his and his alone.<ref name="Gardiner, p.200">Gardiner, p.200</ref>