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Ahmose I ( Egyptian : J ms ( j . w ), sometimes written " Amosis I ", " Amenes " and " Aahmes " and meaning " Born of Iah ") was a ___MASK85___ of ancient Egypt and the founder of the Eighteenth dynasty . He was a member of the Theban royal house , the son of ___MASK85___ Seqenenre Tao and brother of the last ___MASK85___ of the Seventeenth dynasty , King Kamose . During the reign of his father or grandfather , Thebes rebelled against the Hyksos , the rulers of Lower Egypt . When he was seven years old his father was killed , and he was about ten when his brother died of unknown causes , after reigning only three years . Ahmose I assumed the throne after the death of his brother , and upon coronation became known as Neb - Pehty - Re (" The Lord of Strength is Re "). The name " Ahmose " is a combination of the divine name ' Ah ' ( see Iah ) and the combining form '- mose '. Apepi ( also Ipepi ; Egyptian language ipp ( i ) ) or Apophis ( Greek :  ; regnal names Neb - khepesh - Re , A - qenen - Re and A - user - Re ) was a ___MASK26___ of Lower Egypt during the fifteenth dynasty and the end of the Second Intermediate Period that was dominated by this foreign dynasty of rulers called the Hyksos . According to the Turin Canon of Kings , he ruled over the northern portion of Egypt for forty years , and would have ruled during the early half of the 16th century BC if he outlived his southern rival , Kamose , but not Ahmose I . Although his reign only entailed northern Egypt , Apepi was dominant over most of Egypt during the early portion of his reign , and traded peacefully with the native , Theban Seventeenth dynasty to the south . While he might have exerted suzerainty over Upper Egypt during the beginning of his reign , the seventeenth dynasty eventually assumed control over this region , and the Hyksos were driven out of Egypt no more than fifteen years after his death . Seqenenre Tao , ( also Seqenera Djehuty - aa or Sekenenra Taa ), called " The Brave ", ruled over the last of the local kingdoms of the Theban region of Egypt in the Seventeenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period . He probably was the son and successor to Senakhtenre Ahmose and Queen Tetisheri . The dates of his reign are uncertain , but he may have risen to power in the decade ending in 1560 BC or in 1558 BC ( based on the probable accession date of Ahmose I , the first ___MASK26___ of the eighteenth dynasty , see Egyptian chronology ). With his queen , Ahhotep I , Seqenenre Tao fathered two pharaohs , Kamose , his immediate successor who was the last ___MASK85___ of the seventeenth dynasty , and Ahmose I who , following a regency by his mother , was the first ___MASK85___ of the eighteenth . Seqenenre Tao is credited with starting the opening moves in the war of liberation against the Hyksos , which was ended by his son Ahmose . The language spoken in ancient Egypt was a branch of the Afroasiatic language family . The earliest known complete written sentence in the Egyptian language has been dated to about 2690 BCE , making it one of the oldest recorded languages known , along with Sumerian . Ahhotep I ( alternatively spelled " Ahhotpe " or " Aahhotep ", " Iah ( the Moon ) is satisfied ") was an Ancient Egyptian queen who lived circa 1560 - 1530 BC , during the end of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt . She was the daughter of Queen Tetisheri ( known as Teti the Small ) and Senakhtenre Ahmose , and was probably the sister , as well as the queen ___MASK63___ , of ___MASK85___ Seqenenre Tao . Ahhotep I had a long and influential life . Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa , concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt . It is one of six civilizations to arise independently . Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3150 BC ( according to conventional Egyptian chronology ) with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first ___MASK85___ Narmer ( commonly referred to as Menes ). The history of ancient Egypt occurred in a series of stable kingdoms , separated by periods of relative instability known as Intermediate Periods : the Old Kingdom of the Early Bronze Age , the Middle Kingdom of the Middle Bronze Age and the New Kingdom of the Late Bronze Age . ___MASK85___ is the common title of the monarchs of ancient Egypt from the First Dynasty ( c . 3150 ) until the Macedonian conquest in 305 BC , although the actual term " ___MASK85___ " was not used contemporaneously for a ruler until circa 1200 BCE . Egypt (; ', , " Kimi "), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt , is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula . Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast , the Gulf of Aqaba to the east , the Red Sea to the east and south , Sudan to the south , and ___MASK52___ to the west . Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan , and across from the Sinai Peninsula lies Saudi Arabia , although Jordan and Saudi Arabia do not share a land border with Egypt . It is the world ' s only contiguous Afrasian nation . Kamose was the last ___MASK10___ of the Theban Seventeenth Dynasty . He was possibly the son of Seqenenre Tao and Ahhotep I and the full brother of Ahmose I , founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty . His reign fell at the very end of the Second Intermediate Period . Kamose is usually ascribed a reign of three years ( his highest attested regnal year ), although some scholars now favor giving him a longer reign of approximately five years .