While the lists of rewards and booty collected from the different towns seem long, a closer look reveals the towns to be of small sizes with small numbers of people, indicating a rather easy conquest for the Egyptians - no wonder Thut-mose III carried out so many campaigns, they must have been fairly easy to undertake. So while, on the one hand, the many campaigns show the strength and determination of Thut-mose III, the army usually only conquered small towns so they only seemed to be big conquests. ... Egypt had a good source of written information in such things as king lists, annals, royal...

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