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===Nubia during Egypt’s New Kingdom (ca. 1550-1075 BC)===

Nubia’s political ambitions took a dramatic turn for the worse when the Egyptian king Thutmose III (ruled ca. 1479-1425 BC) came to the throne. Thutmose III was a particularly active military pharaoh who is often compared to Julius Caesar. Most of Thutmose III’s recorded military campaigns were of his several Levant expeditions, but he did leave a number of textual and pictorial depictions of his campaigns into Nubia and he had a victory stela erected in the Nubian city of Gebel Barkal near the fourth cataract, which indicates Egyptian influence, if not outright control, extended that far south during the New Kingdom. <ref> Bryan, Betsy. “The Eighteenth Dynasty before the Amarna Period.” In <i>The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt.</i> Edited by Ian Shaw. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 246</ref> By the Nineteenth Dynasty, the Egyptians had colonized Nubia so thoroughly that a new government office was created known as the “king’s son of Kush.” The king’s son of Kush essentially functioned as a viceroy of the region, overseeing the trade and colonization. <ref> O’Connor, David. “New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, 1552-664 BC.” In <i>Ancient Egypt: A Social History.</i> Edited by Bruce G. Trigger, Barry J. Kemp, David O’Connor, and Alan B. Lloyd. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 262</ref> But as with hundreds of years of prior Egyptian-Nubian history, Egypt’s primacy would falter once more and Nubia would be there to take advantage.

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