A Study Of The Relations Of Egypt And The Foreign Countries In Dynasty26

During the late New Kingdom Egypt, the Amun priests Group received a great deal ofpower, and because of the war, the military general Group rose in the war, which controlledthe military and dominate themselves. Their presence greatly weakened Egypt's centralgovernment.1069BC, Smends I declared himself king of Egypt, and established theTwenty-Sixth Dynasty of Egypt. But the priests of Thebes Southern Group did not obey hisrule, where the military generals also fragmented and ruled in their own way, and therefore,Adams Mendes was merely nominal king of Egypt. After the Twenty-First dynastyestablished until664BC, between which Egypt political division, economic recession, culturedepressed, not only that, the foreign national has also invaded Egypt, Egypt was in anunprecedented lows.With such internal and external problems, Psamtik I established the Twenty-SixthDynasty. He first unified Egypt, then took advantage of Assyria fighting a civil war to get ridof vassal status, from then on Egypt embarked on a road to recovery. During the Twenty-Sixthdynasty, the Egypt actively integrated into the eastern Mediterranean world, not only to seekpolitical power status, but also to pursuit to maximize the economic interests. Throughout theTwenty-Sixth Dynasty of Egypt history, Egypt's political decision-making, economicdevelopment, cultural revival, all marked by the stigma of the eastern Mediterranean world. Itcan be said twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt's history is a history of the Egyptian foreignexchanges. Especially the found of Naukratis, is a concentrated history of exchanges betweenEgypt and Greece, in various aspects of the political, economic, cultural, etc., which is themost successful foreign relations paradigm in the history of the Egyptian.In this paper, through the collection and collating of firsthand literature of the foreignrelations during the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty, and with the help of these literature, the authorattains to reconstruct the process and content of the military and diplomatic, economic andcultural exchanges in the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty and ultimately builds the exchanges' systemthroughout the eastern Mediterranean world from the eighth century BC to six century BC.This paper describes the following aspects of foreign exchanges during the period ofTwenty-Sixth Dynasty of Egypt: The first part describes the replacement of Twenty-Fifth toTwenty-Sixth Dynasties, and the establishment of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty. The second partdescribes the Egyptian foreign diplomacy and war. During this period, the Egyptian foreignwars broke out frequently with Assyria, Neo-Babylon, the Jewish kingdom, the Phoeniciansand the Syria-Palestinian's city-states, which shows the history of Egypt's foreign relations isalso a history of war. The third part describes the Egyptian foreign economic and culturalexchanges. Egypt and Assyria, Syria and the Palestinian areas, Greece and other places havefrequent trade during this period. Trade brings frequent movement of persons, in the processalso brought him national culture. However, cultural and economic exchanges than war is not obvious, are a prolonged imperceptible influences process. The fourth part the Naukratis ismainly introduced.Finally, the conclusion points out that, the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty is the second period offoreign relations of Egypt, which brings great influence to the Greek culture.