King sity I the First
There is no dispute that history will preserve "City I" the most beautiful memories, as he succeeded in restoring nearly half of Egypt's empire in Asia. He also secured transportation routes between his country and "Palestine", and removed the threat to the country.
an introduction :
The famous Pharaoh Seti the First was considered one of the greatest and most famous of the warrior pharaohs in the era of the modern state and the nineteenth family. He was known as Maat Ra, the son of King Ramses the First and Queen Satre.
Ramses I, the father of Seti I, who founded the nineteenth family, ruled the country for only two years, due to his advanced age at the time of his accession to the throne, so Seti I succeeded him on the throne of Egypt and Seti I was the father of Ramses II, who was born in 1303 BC
And King Seti I ruled the country from 1294 BC. Or 1290 BC. Until 1279 BC. Or 1305/1302 BC. According to the date that was recorded at the time
The Greeks called it Sethosis, and the Egyptian historian Manetho erred in considering the first king Sebti as the founder of the Nineteenth Dynasty, and called it Seti, meaning the one related to Seth, which indicates that he was endowed with the god Seth
Siti had a number of names that he was known by when he ascended the throne to rule the country, so he took a name from Ma't Ra, meaning Khaled, which is the justice of Ra, and this name is the most popular among the Egyptians and the rulers of neighboring countries. The Greeks called him Sethosis
About the life of City I:
Seti was an officer in the army of Hor Im Hob since the beginning of his rule, following a straightforward and clear approach, following that rational policy that was developed and founded by Horemheb, which aimed to restore the sovereignty of Egypt and eliminate all the vices of the past aberration era
Therefore, we find that every act that was carried out during his reign is based on this trend, so he thought that it was necessary for Egypt if it wanted to restore its former place in the world, from two things:
First, a stable government that established its foundations at home and reopened the empire of Egypt, which had been torn apart by an evil torn before that. Horemheb saw with insight that the first thing must be fulfilled before embarking on the second.
Horemheb actually succeeded in restoring order to its interior in the country. When he took over the first city, he found the interior of the country firm, so it was easy for him to implement the second part of the reform program that was aimed at restoring Egypt's imperial glory.
During the reign of his father, King Ramses the First, he held several jobs, and perhaps the most important of these jobs was the position of commander of the Knights, and then he was subsequently raised to the highest positions of the state such as Minister and Police Commander, which had an impact on his gaining experience
This led to the fact that in terms of the number of jobs he worked in, it was a number and qualification for his era to be a new beginning in the country's history
He assumed power while he was in his mid-fifties, and the first years of his reign were called B, mesawat, meaning the recurrence of childbirth, and his reign is considered the beginning of the new era of resurrection in the sense of a new renaissance for the country important for this era
The most important thing that City I did:
In terms of his foreign policy, the great warrior pharaoh, King Seti the First, consolidated the Egyptian authority in the Levant in Syria and Palestine and successfully resisted the Hittites who were ruling Asia Minor in Anatolia or Turkey now.
City I concluded a peace treaty with them, one of the most important provisions of which is not to attack them. Thus, City I restored to Egypt its prestige and greatness in the ancient Near East after it had nearly lost its place at the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty, especially after the kings of Amarna
I mean by this King Akhenaten and his successors the Bedouin of the Shassu, and King Seti I achieved great glory and great fame. However, the fame of his son, King Ramses II the Great when he ruled the country, overshadowed the fame of the warrior pharaoh, his father, King Seti I, Rameses
He seized these slaves and slaves from Nubia in wars that really took place. The presence of Siti's first name and surname written at the end of this text indicates that he was present in Nubia as a co-king with his father and executing his orders in that region.
This is in addition to the fact that King Seti the First was the one who carried out the full burdens of wars and also the requirements of leadership, during the period of the reign of his father, King Ramses the First.
This is evidenced by his multiple war titles. King Seti the First took an interest in completing the residential buildings and state institutions that his father built, in addition to establishing many important monuments.
Perhaps among the most important of them is the great colonnade hall in the temples of Karnak, and its construction had begun in an earlier period, and then it was decorated very nicely, showing the period and distinctive in the era of Seti the First with wonderful ritual views
And the photography that we see now on the outer walls is a lot of many pictures showing the great military victories known to the specialists of King Seti I over the Bedouins who were raiding the northern borders of Egypt, the Libyans and the Amorites in Kadesh in Syria and the Hittites
The reign of Seti I:
He assumed power after his father, Ramses the First, the founder of the Nineteenth Dynasty, whose reign did not last for more than two years. Before his accession to the throne, he managed the various affairs of government in his capacity as a legitimate heir.
And perhaps he was a position as well as a participant of his father in the throne of the country and he continued the works of King Horemheb and confirmed the international expansion of Egypt and pursued for the sake of the gods a formidable policy of construction and may draw his father’s footsteps in the field of his life as he became involved in the army and reached a high degree of performance and skill in his work
However, he was surprised by events that made him head towards foreign policy. The great warrior pharaoh, King City the First, consolidated the Egyptian authority in the Levant in Syria and Palestine.
And the Hittites, who used to rule the Asia Minor region in Anatolia or Turkey today, successfully resisted and concluded a peace treaty with them and not to attack them.
His well-known campaigns began towards Asia, then on western Egypt and Nubia in the first year of his reign. He began his first campaigns, as a revolution erupted in Asia that extended to the eastern borders of Egypt.
The Shasu Bedouins seized the military forts along the Horus warrior road from Qantara to Gaza in revolt against the Egyptian influence, and the first city in it found the opportunity to prove to everyone the extent of the new pharaoh's strength
And also the Egyptian army, which was long absent from Asia, so it carried out several camels in which it regained the nine fortresses, then headed to Canaan, where it was confirmed that the Shassu Bedouin revolution was fabricated.
Indeed, the real danger was the alliance of the Amorites and Arameans against Egypt, so King Seti I undertook some tasks, the first of which was the consolidation of the Egyptian authority in the state of Palestine and the Levant.
This was a very important work, just as King Seti the First resisted the group of Hittites who ruled Asia Minor with great success and concluded a very important peace treaty with them stipulating that they would never be attacked, no matter what happened, and they continued to agree their views until no aggression occurred.
The first campaign aimed at eliminating the Bedouin of the Shasu and recovering the forts. The wells were dug and placed under guard. We find the names of the forts, which are located between the fortress of Tharu and the city of Ba Canaan
These forts are engraved on what looks like a war map of the Sinai Peninsula on the outer walls of the Pillars Hall at the Karnak Temple. Then King Seti I continued his attack in the city of Canaan, so the army of Ra headed to Beit Shan
As for Amounin's army, it went to Hama to the north, and Sit's army headed to the city of Yenam, and took Acre and Tire completely captives until they reached Lebanon, and this campaign succeeded
It is reported that he was a partner with the king, his son Ramses II, who ruled the country after his father, Seti the First, spread his fame and became one of the most famous kings of Egypt at the time, and the second campaign was aimed at Kadesh. As for the third campaign, the direction was towards the West.
And we find that it was recorded with drawings and scenes of the campaign engraved with wonderful and distinctive Pharaonic arts in the pillars hall in Karnak in which the name of the campaign is mentioned, and the fourth in which it was referred to Asia
The inscriptions of the drawn and also the texts recorded in the Karnak temple that record the king while he was fighting the Hittites, and this is the first fusion between the armies of Khita and the Egyptians in Nubia, so he carried out a campaign or two and was accompanied in the eighth year of his rule by his deputy in the Nubia region
During the reign of this king, it became clear that Egypt was experiencing a period of prosperity from vegetation in the south to the sea in the north, which enabled it to do some expansions outside its borders.
The first military campaigns towards the west targeted the suppression of the Libyans, who became a constant source of threat. On the east side, Seti the First began to appease the Bedouins in the Sinai Strait, who were disturbing the stability of the borders with their repeated attacks.
They also obstructed the ease of passage to Gaza City. He also succeeded in restoring the State of Palestine and also eastern Jordan. The Bethshan painting tells us.
It recounts the full details of the plan pursued by Seti I to dismember the rebel clans north of Carmel
The advance of the Egyptian armies to the north caused a direct collision with the Hittites in the city of Kadesh at the River Oront
Attention to internal affairs in Egypt:
So the king issued a decree aimed at protecting a religious institution in Abydos against manipulation and appropriation by state officials of its kingdoms. In his decree, King Seti I resorted to imposing harsh punishments and even resorted to magic.
He worked on exploiting the turquoise mines in the Sinai and extracting gold from the mines of Nubia. The oldest map outlining the routes to the mines goes back to his time, the exploitation of the quarries of the Eastern Desert.
Written by Madeha Genady
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