Senusrt is the first of the most important rulers of the Middle state in the era of the Pharaohs, and its name means the man with strength as it is pronounced in English Cesostris I, and he is the second kings of the twelfth family. He assumed the rule of Egypt from 1971 to 1926 BC and was one of the most powerful kings of this family.
He participated in the rule of Egypt with his father, King Amenemhat I, during the years 1975 to 1965 BC, and was unique to the rule of Egypt after the death of his father and his reign spanned 43 years during which life flourished in Egypt. He involved his son in the referee during the last three years of his rule, from 1932 to 1930 BC, which became the second Amnnim.
He continued his father’s expansion policies in Nubia, by initiating two campaigns to this region, the first was in his tenth year and the second was in his eighteenth year of the rule of Egypt, and he approved the official southern borders of Egypt near the second waterfall where he placed a defensive garrison and set up the victory plate, as He organized a campaign to the oases of Western Sahara, and approved diplomatic relations with some of the city rulers in Syria and the Canaanite lands, and he also has attempts to consolidate the centrality of the country’s political structure by supporting the Bedouin tribes loyal to it.
His reign witnessed stability and development in many fields, so the levels of literature and industry were at their height, as this period was characterized by the prosperity of mineral wealth, the extraction of gold and the spread of fine golden artifacts in abundance, and the results of this period were the establishment of its pyramid and funeral temple in Al -Lasht near Fayoum, which is the new capital that it established The twelfth family after the departure of Taibah, and many statues were found there, and King Senusrt I was mentioned in the story of Sinhi when he said that he had rushed to return from his military campaign in Libya to the royal palace in Memphis after hearing the assassination of his father, Amenemhat I.
It was mentioned in the encyclopedia of the ancient Egypt of Salim Hassan as follows: The superior beams in the advice and the firm in giving orders, and the souls and the people under his will, and he who subjected foreign lands, and his father resides in the palace to receive the news that his matter has been implemented, and that he is the strong who scores victory with his strong help, the hero who is unparalleled when he sees the enemy, Or an approach from Houmt Al -Wita, which is the one who praises the centuries, weakens the hands, and its enemies cannot organize their ranks.
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