Quiz: Thutmose III

When did Thutmose III die?

• About 1425 BC. The birth year is not recorded.
• About 1750 BC.
• About 1213 BC, aged about ninety.
• 9 September 1976, Beijing

When did Thutmose III reign?

• About 1479 to 1425 BC.
• 336 to 323 BC.
• 668 to about 627 BC.
• 559 to 530 BC.

What realm did Thutmose III rule?

• New Kingdom Egypt, at its greatest territorial extent.
• The Neo Assyrian Empire, at its greatest extent.
• The Roman Empire.
• The Achaemenid Persian Empire at its full extent.

What is Thutmose III known for?

• The Battle of Megiddo, about 1457 BC, and the Annals carved at Karnak.
• Living in a tub, carrying a lantern in daylight looking for an honest man, and telling Alexander to stand out of his sunlight. The stories are later, not records.
• The Code of Hammurabi, inscribed on a diorite stele now in the Louvre.
• The Battle of Kadesh, about 1274 BC, and the Egyptian Hittite peace treaty.

True or false: Pharaoh of Egypt from about 1479 to 1425 BC, who built the Egyptian Empire to its greatest extent.

• True
• False