have met the horse on the ancient monuments. After the close of the
Feudal Age the animal began to be imported from Asia; the chariot (Fig.
133) came with him, and Egypt, having learned warfare on a scale
unknown before, became a military empire.
MAP OF EGYPTIAN THEBES
This map may be compared with the aeroplane view of Karnak
(Fig. 64), taken over point marked
x, and with the view of the western plain toward the colossal statues of
Amenhotep III and the western cliffs (Fig. 69),
in and along which lie the tombs of the vast cemetery. Before it, and parallel
with the cliffs, stretched a long line of temples facing the great temples
of Luxor and Karnak on the east side of the river. The houses of
the ancient city have passed away.
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The Pharaohs were now great generals with a well-organized
standing army made up chiefly of archers and heavy masses of chariots.
With these forces the Pharaoh conquered an empire which extended from the
Euphrates in Asia to the Fourth Cataract of the Nile in Africa (see map
I, p. 184). By an empire we [NEXT] |
108. Egypt
a military empire |
