Over the past thousand years^[1]http://www.timemaps.com/history/ancient-egypt-2500bc Egyptian civilization has experienced periods of strength and unity, and also of weakness and division. At this date, however, the land has just been re-united under powerful pharaohs of what modern scholars call the “New Kingdom” of Ancient Egypt.^[2]http://www.timemaps.com/civilization/Ancient-Egypt They have swiftly imposed Egyptian control over the peoples surrounding the Nile valley to south, east and west.