The Rising Of The New Kingdom As Seen From The Autobiography Of Ahmose

The Eighteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt was a period which was full of military operations. Because of the military operations continued year by year, lots of inscriptions about these topics were reserved. A great quantity of Official records was the military operations of this period. However, as the tradition that the scribe who followed pharaohs could only record the successful battle but cut down the defeat, furthermore, they recorded it exaggeratedly when they got the successful battle also, so it lacked the historical authenticities.There were some inscriptions of biography related military actions that someone took part into combats by themselves were engraved as the literature style."The Autobiography of Ahmose"is the representative one of the multitudinous engraved inscriptions in the New Kingdom initial period. It recorded an ordinary soldier all military life about the King's expedition that covered the pharaohs AhmoseⅠ,AmenemhetⅠand Thutmose I . It was not only the military life record, but also the New Kingdom empire rising process record .This article will analyze some biographies in the New Kingdom initial period, and try to inquire the about the New Kingdom rises from the process of his development.This article divides into three parts as follow:Firstly: Introduced the abstract about "The Autobiography of Ahmose " this part mainly briefed the literature's preserved condition, the approximate content ,the special characteristic and the research value;Secondly: Enumerates the main militaries'activities in this literature:1.Conquered the Hyksos; Kept alien race power in the north of Egypt out; then it established the complete independent new political power—the beginning of the empire rising. 2.Suppressing the rebellion. The beginning of the New kingdom pharaohs suppressed the rebellion by the military force, not only created the good domestic environment for the rising of the empire but also eliminated expansion's barrier.3 . Egypt got massive resources and plunders through military expanding, it has provided the essential economic conditions to establish the empire, and furthermore this also set up her prestige in international world.Thirdly: From " The Autobiography Of Ahmose "has a limited view of the beginning of the Empire's domestic condition1.In politic, overthrow the alien race ruler in the north, established the unified political power, and made the country security.2.In military, founded the army of new style with the stronger weapon, formed the tradition which has the military power against the foreign countries. Moreover it also produced the military aristocrat that had the important influence in the New Kingdom.3.In economic, with the massive gold, slaves flowed into Egypt, this promoted the domestic economical rapidly development, not only promoted the private ownership, but also promoted the slavery economy prosperity in particular.Ending:Above all, " The Autobiography Of Ahmose " was not only a biography of an ordinary soldier's military, but also it's a process miniature of the empire rising. The rising of the New Kingdom was the inevitable result of the New Kingdom military operations and the society development. At the same time the military operations also promoted the domestic social condition and made it had the corresponding change, but these changes at the beginning of the New Kingdom, promoting the Empire's development, and Egypt became military tyrant country in ThutmoseⅢ's period.