Account for the ways in which kings maintained their power in the New Kingdom to the death of Thutmose IV

Account for the ways in which kings maintained their power in the New Kingdom to the death of Thutmose IV

New Kingdom Egypt was established by the beginning of the 18th Dynasty, marked by the Expulsion of the Hyksos invaders, a people from the Ancient Near-East who had held power in Egypt for the past century. This amassing of strength by the Egyptians to reclaim their land from a powerful foe, led to a change in perspective for the Egyptian people and most importantly, the way in which the Pharaoh was to manage the state.
The massing of forces, implicating of Hyksos military tactics and organisation the amounted to the expulsion of the Hyksos put a new and profound emphasis on the Pharaoh as a military leader, a warrior who would led his people to victory against their foes. With this new emphasis Egypt found itself at the beginning of a dynasty that was to be marked by a succession of the most powerful rulers Egypt had seen, and long periods of prosperity in which Egyp...