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It rather looks as if the casting out of the Hyksos, the foreign / "shepherd kings," made the Egyptians realise that they must combine / and unite and not go on fighting among themselves, if they meant to / be strong enough to resist the attacks of their neighbours. Whether / that was the reason or not, the records seem to show that just at / this time there began to be far less fighting between the big / landowners; and the king, Pharaoh, began to have more power in his / own hands, and to be able to give effect to his will, by means of his / vizier or prime minister, and the rest of his officers over all the / country.
Thus more strong by being united, the Egyptians drove out the Hyksos. / They also took forcible measures against the African tribes that were / pressing them on the south, and established their power right up to / the fourth cataract on the Nile, a long way farther south than the / boundary of the more ancient empire. Against Nubia, farther south / again, and against Libya, on their west, they fought effectively, and / thus we may suppose that they made themselves more safe than they / ever had been before from invasion by these African peoples.