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History of Ancient Egypt

The time period is the reign of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten, in the New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty by modern reckoning. Akhenaten turned his back on the old gods and proclaimed the sun god, the Aten, to be the only true god. He built a new capital, and left the once-politically-powerful priesthood of Amon to its own devices. His inattention cost Egypt its foreign holdings, which had been won when the Hyksos invaders, called Heka-Khaswt by Egyptians, were thrown out of Egypt. Though the Hyksos brought the technology of bronzeworking to Egypt, Egyptians had a "pure race" mindset and were never comfortable having non-Egyptians around, except for the Medjay guard, which was largely Nubian. In this time the pyramids were a thousand years old already, and were maintained as national monuments despite the damage done by Egyptain tourists. Most Egyptians were farmers - all the specialized trades represented in this area did indeed exist, but they should be considered an economic step above the average Egyptian.

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