Mentuhotep II

king of Egypt
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Mentuhotep II, king (ruled c. 2009–c. 1959 bce) of ancient Egypt’s 11th dynasty (c. 2080–c. 1940 bce) who, starting as the ruler of southernmost Egypt in about 2009 bce, reunified the country by defeating his rivals and ushered in the period known as the Middle Kingdom (c. 1980–c. 1760 bce). At his accession, Mentuhotep controlled Upper Egypt from Aswān to This, an ancient city about 90 miles (145 km) north of Thebes, his capital. He inherited a realm that had already spent some 60 years in intermittent warfare with the Heracleopolitan kingdom, which ruled Middle and Lower Egypt, as each ...(100 of 328 words)