Egypt

Autobiography of Ahmose Son of Ebana

also transliterated Ahmose si-Abina

A common soldier's rise through the ranks during the war to expel the Hyksos and open Nubia shows valor in battle, not birth, as the surest path to royal reward in the newly unified Eighteenth Dynasty.

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