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Significant1530 BCE – 1520 BCE · 10 years

Ahmose I's Nubian Campaigns

Nubia · Sudan

New Kingdom pharaoh expanded Egyptian control into upper Nubia and established the gold trade infrastructure.

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

What happened

Ahmose I (1550-1525 BCE), the New Kingdom founder, conducted military campaigns into Upper Nubia seeking gold resources. Egyptian forces conquered Nubian territories and established mining operations. The campaigns secured the gold supply essential to Egypt's New Kingdom prosperity. Nubian populations were enslaved and/or displaced.

Why it mattered

Nubian conquest enabled Egypt's New Kingdom expansion through gold acquisition. Gold supplies funded Egypt's imperial military and monumental architecture.

Belligerents2

  • Egypt
  • Nubian kingdoms

ON THE MAPEgyptian New Kingdom

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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18.00°N · 33.50°E · 1530 BCE – 1520 BCEWARS-ATLAS / CONFLICT / HYKSOS-NUBIAN-CAMPAIGN

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