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The 3rd Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt History

The rule of Ramesses the Third in the period 1186-1155 BC, and followed the policy of Ramses II in his rule, and the wealth of Egypt at that time was coveted by many peoples living on the coast, which led to its conquest several times, the last of which was the Battle of Showa in 1178 BC, Ramesses III, after his death, his successors tried to maintain his policy, but they faced resistance from the peoples of the occupied lands, and with the passage of time the priests of the god Amoun seized a large part of the Egyptian lands and gathered enough wealth to threaten the security of the central government, and by the time of Ramesses XI the central government collapsed and the period began Medium For a third.

Egypt reunited again during the reign of the king of Cush in the period 752-722 BC, but it collapsed when the Assyrians conquered it in 671 BC, but they did not succeed in controlling it. They withdrew and left it destroyed in the hands of the local rulers, and it was rebuilt in 525 BC. Persians, and remained under the Persian occupation until the arrival of Alexander the Great in 332 BC, he controlled Egypt without any combat campaigns, and established the city of Alexandria, then moved to conquer the Persian Empire, and after his death in 323 BC, Ptolemy I transferred his body to Alexandria, and established Ptolemaic dynasty in the period 323-30 BC. The last of the Ptolemaic dynasty, King Cleopatra, who killed herself in 30 BC after defeating its forces at the hands of the Romans, and Egypt remained under the control of the Romans in the period 30 BC-476 AD, then it was controlled by the Byzantine Empire in the period 527-646 AD, until the conquest of Gaza Omar, may God be pleased with him, became a follower of the Islamic caliphate.

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