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After the division of the kingdom of the Hebrews under Solomon’s successor, Rehoboam, Sheshonk I, who had already harbored the fugitive Jeroboam, Rehoboam’s northern enemy, thought it a good opportunity to make his claims in Palestine unquestionable...

Breasted, James. A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (Illustrated) (p. 289). Didactic Press. Kindle Edition.

Thus in a little over two centuries after the death of Ramses III, who had smitten them so sorely, the Libyans gained the crown of Egypt without so much as drawing the sword.

Breasted, James. A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (Illustrated) (p. 288). Didactic Press. Kindle Edition.

The sea-peoples no longer appear upon the monuments, and from the west the Delta was now the peaceful conquest of the Libyans, who accomplished by gradual immigration what they had failed to gain by hostile invasion.

Breasted, James. A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (Illustrated) (p. 287). Didactic Press. Kindle Edition.

During this period of Egypt’s total eclipse the tribes of Israel thus gained the opportunity to consolidate their national organization and under Saul and David they gradually gained the upper hand against the Philistines.

Breasted, James. A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (Illustrated) (p. 287). Didactic Press. Kindle Edition.

The death of Ramses III introduced a long line of nine weaklings all of whom bore the great name Ramses. They were far from bearing it worthily, and under them the waning power of the Pharaohs declined swiftly to its fall in a few decades.

Breasted, James. A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (Illustrated) (p. 275). Didactic Press. Kindle Edition.

Art still flourished. Nothing better was ever produced by the Egyptian sculptor than the superb statue of the youthful Ramses, which forms the chef d’oevre of the Turin Museum; and even the colossal statues like those of Abu Simbel are fine portraits.

Breasted, James. A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (Illustrated) (p. 246). Didactic Press. Kindle Edition.

Henceforward for a long time the Pharaoh’s army is but a weapon of defense against foreign aggression; a weapon, however, which he was himself unable to control,— and before which the venerable line of Re was finally to disappear.

Breasted, James. A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (Illustrated) (p. 241). Didactic Press. Kindle Edition.

With the Asiatic campaigns of Ramses II the military aggressiveness of Egypt which had been awakened under Ahmose I in the expulsion of the Hyksos was completely exhausted. Nor did it ever revive.

Breasted, James. A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (Illustrated) (p. 240). Didactic Press. Kindle Edition.

Manetho places Harmhab..who now gained the throne, at the close of the Eighteenth Dynasty; but in so far as we know he was not of royal blood nor any kin of the now fallen house. He marks the restoration of Amon, the resumption of the old order and the beginning of a new epoch.
Breasted, James. A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (Illustrated) (p. 215). Didactic Press. Kindle Edition.

,.in Syria and Palestine the provinces of (Ikhnaton)had..passed..out of Egyptian control..in the south a state of complete anarchy.resulted..the hopeless Egyptian party..gave up any attempt to maintain the authority of the Pharaoh..those who had not perished joined the enemy.
Breasted, James. A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (Illustrated) (p. 212). Didactic Press. Kindle Edition.