Eric Cline

It is, and yet, yes, it's Egyptians versus, we're told, about 30 local Canaanite princes.

But among them, and led by them, is the prince or king of Kadesh.

The same place that 200 years later, the Egyptians and the Hittites are going to fight, right?

And Kadesh is in what is today Syria.

The ruler of Kadesh is supposed to be one of the leaders of this rebellion by local Canaanites, all right?

Okay.

So, what happens is that

Thutmose III has come to the throne.

He's really young, like eight years old or so.

And so his stepmother, also his aunt, Hatshepsut—Hatshepsut, one of the famous female pharaohs—she rules on his behalf for 20 years.

So then she disappears.

When he's about 28, Thutmose III comes to the throne finally, and there must have been a suppressed libido or whatever, but there's also a rebellion.

So he takes off and fights this major battle in his first year.

He also then fights almost every year for like the next 17 years.

So there's something going on there with him.

He probably needed to see a therapist, but we won't go into that.

At any rate, that first battle, and that's the best time to rebel, is the first year when there's a new king on the throne.

I don't know if you're planning to do that, but just in case you had that in mind, that's the best time.

Yeah, the first year.

Watch out, Dan.