Great talk! But, what is often overlooked in the rise of the Thebean Dynasties is Thebes' proximity to the Qena Bend. You can't support a "war" machine without food. This geographic anomaly yielded the harvests to feed armies.Thebes is also near the Wadi Hammamat, a trade route linking the the Red Sea to the Nile River near Qena. Geography is everything when building states.
Great talk, thanks.
Great talk! But, what is often overlooked in the rise of the Thebean Dynasties is Thebes' proximity to the Qena Bend. You can't support a "war" machine without food. This geographic anomaly yielded the harvests to feed armies.Thebes is also near the Wadi Hammamat, a trade route linking the the Red Sea to the Nile River near Qena. Geography is everything when building states.