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' Text Appearing After Image: Egypt—The Twelfth Dynasty Restores Peace i 15 turies of darkness and feudalism from the renaissance which began under thetwelfth dynasty and led on as in Europe, though only after a period of sufferingand shame, to the splendor and world victory of the eighteenth and nineteenthdynasties. These we can compare to our modern days. The ruler who secured a firm hold over the lesser princes and started thetwelfth dynasty was Amenemhat 1. How he won the throne, we do not know;but of the happy changes which his strong rule caused he tells in his own in-scriptions: Perpetual fighting was no longer witnessed, whereas before mycoming they fought together as bulls heedless of yesterday, and no mans wel-fare was safe whether he was ignorant or learned. In another place he says:I spread joy throughout the country, even to the marshes of the delta. Atmy prayer the Nile granted its overflow to the field. No man was hungryunder me; no man thirsted with desire; for everywhere man obeyed my com-mands,
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