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Conflict Middle East

Campaigns of Thutmose III

1457 BCE – 1425 BCE · 32 years

Thutmose III conducted 14 military campaigns in the Levant, crushing a Canaanite rebellion at Megiddo — the first battle recorded in reliable detail — and extending Egypt to its greatest territorial extent.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • New Kingdom Egypt
  • Canaanite coalition & Mitanni

Key moments

Defining events in the Campaigns of Thutmose III.

  1. 1457 BC Battle of Megiddo
  2. Siege of Megiddo
  3. Crossing of the Euphrates

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Middle East

Great Pyramid of Giza

2560 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Egypt

Attested 3000 BCE – 2026 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Elamite–Babylonian Wars

1764 BCE – 1150 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Dead Sea

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Saba

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Kassite Conquest of Babylon

1595 BCE – 1155 BCE

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Mitanni–Hittite Rivalry Conflict · Europe 1550 BCE – 1450 BCE Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia) Trade route · Oceania 1500 BCE – 500 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Chorrera Polity · Americas 1500 BCE – 100 BCE
Image credits3 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Great Pyramid of GizaDouwe C. van der Zee · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Flag of EgyptDerived from Part IV Article (223) of the Constitution of The Arab Republic of Egypt. Col… · Public domain
  • Dead Seaلا روسا · CC BY-SA 4.0