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See also:AMASIS II . was the last See also:great ruler of See also:Egypt before the See also:Persian See also:conquest, 570—526 B.C. Most of our See also:information about him is derived from See also:Herodotus (ii. 161 et seq.) and can only be imperfectly controlled by monumental See also:evidence. According to the See also:Greek historian he was of mean origin. A revolt of the native soldiers gave him his opportunity. These troops, returning See also:home from a disastrous expedition to See also:Cyrene, suspected that they had been betrayed in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order that See also:Apries, the reigning See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king; might See also:rule more absolutely by means of his mercenaries, and their See also:friends in Egypt fully sympathized with them. Amasis, sent to meet them and quell the revolt, was proclaimed king by the rebels, and Apries, who had now to rely entirely on his mercenaries, was defeated and taken prisoner in the ensuing conflict at Momemphis; the usurper treated the See also:captive See also:prince with great lenity, but was eventually persuaded to give him up to the See also:people, by whom he was strangled and buried in his ancestral See also:tomb at See also:Sais. An inscription confirms the fact of the struggle between the native and the See also:foreign soldiery, and proves that Apries was killed and honourably buried in the 3rd See also:year of Amasis. Although Amasis thus appears first as See also:champion of the disparaged native, he had the See also:good sense to cultivate the friendship of the Greek See also:world, and brought Egypt into closer See also:touch with it than ever before. Herodotus relates that under his prudent See also:administration Egypt reached the highest See also:pitch of prosperity; he adorned the temples of See also:Lower Egypt especially with splendid monolithic shrines and other monuments (his activity here is proved by remains still existing). To the Greeks Amasis assigned the commercial See also:colony of See also:Naucratis on the Canopic See also:branch of the See also:Nile, and when the See also:temple of See also:Delphi was burnt he contributed r000 talents to the rebuilding. He also married a Greek princess named Ladice, the daughter of See also:Battus, king of Cyrene, and he made alliances with See also:Polycrates of See also:Samos and See also:Croesus of See also:Lydia. His See also:kingdom consisted probably of Egypt only, as far as the First See also:Cataract, but to this he added See also:Cyprus, and his See also:influence was great in Cyrene. At the beginning of his See also:long reign, before the See also:death of Apries, he appears to have sustained an attack by See also:Nebuchadrezzar (568 B.C.). See also:Cyrus See also:left Egypt unmolested; but the last years of Amasis were disturbed by the threatened invasion of See also:Cambyses and by the rupture of the See also:alliance with Polycrates of Samos. The See also:blow See also:fell upon' his son See also:Psammetichus III., whom the Persian deprived of his kingdom after a reign of only six months.
See NAUCRATIS; also W. M. See also:Flinders See also:Petrie, See also:History, vol. iii.; Breasted, History and See also:Historical Documents, vol. iv. p. 509; See also:Maspero, See also:Les Empires. (F. LL.
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