How involved was Egypt's empire in the New Kingdom?
Would somebody in Nubia and somebody in Canaan follow any of the same law? Was there any settlement of Egyptians into conquered territories?
Would court politics (ascension of a new Pharaoh, Akhenaten's monotheistic revolution) bleed thorough into the provinces at all?
They were a great influence on the Abrahamic faiths. Read their prayers for yourself, they're real similar to ones found in the Talmud and Bible. But this is a meme everyone knows about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hymn_to_the_Aten
Bump for OP. Also interested.
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Egypt was an extremely entrenched and powerful state, it imposed endless taxes and managed huge public works, employing a sizeable part of the total population.
It had a single unified legal system so yes in theory you would be tried by the same laws across the empire, tho in practice their control often wavered over peripheral regions.
Dynastic instability was a problem for Egypt as it was for all ancient states, however the existence of well-established bureaucratic and priestly hierarchies tended to mitigate disruption by ensuring continuity of local government. This broke down under Akhenaton, who tried to destroy the powerful priestly class, but in general Egypt was remarkably stable, peaceful, and prosperous.
Egyptians were extremely tightly connected to the Nile and didn't really think Egyptians could live outside Egypt.
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