Not everyone in Egypt is completely loyal to Egypt, and many of them want to survive the war.
One of them is Uzaherresna, who was a naval commander of the late Twenty-Sixth Dynasty, and whose other important status is that of a temple priest.
In 525 BC, when Persia invaded Egypt on a large scale and the two sides were in full swing, Uzaherresna chose to become a traitor and surrendered to the Persian Empire with his Egyptian navy.
The Persian emperors at that time were very "appreciative" of such people, and from the perspective of imperial rule, they accelerated the speed of war and facilitated future management.
This choice of soldiers and generals who were on the verge of rebellion was the most rapid change of thought, so they naturally worshipped the Persian kingship.
Uzaherresna once wrote an inscription describing Emperor Cambyses II: All the great foreign chiefs Cambyses came to Egypt, and the people of every country followed.
When he completely conquered the land, they settled in Egypt, the great ruler of Egypt and the great chief of all foreign countries.
Other officials, on the other hand, could only continue to accept Persian rule.
Especially with the exceptional stability of Persian rule, a large number of magnates who were active in Egypt directly linked their inner "traditional royal power" to the image of the Persian emperor's royal power, which was what they thought in their hearts.
In addition, not all the officials in Egypt were native Egyptians, and many Persian nobles traveled to Egypt to hold various positions.
Many of them married native Egyptian women and produced mixed-race offspring, many of whom also inherited their fatherly inheritance, the distant rulers of the Persian Empire, who had always been loyal to them, and who were also the most loyal officials to the Persian Empire, and they knew very well where the power in their hands came from.
However, Egyptian officials with Persian blood were initially able to clearly understand the Persian emperor as the ruler of the Persian Empire, but over time, their perception of kingship was gradually assimilated by the traditional Egyptian concept, and the royal image of the traditional Egyptian pharaoh was used to illustrate the image of the Persian emperor's kingship.
The ancient pharaohs were the faith of many Egyptian officials, but gradually, the images of the Persian emperors gradually merged with the pharaohs of Egypt.
In addition, it is also the most common thinking of the persian rulers, that is, in the minds of ordinary people, what kind of image the Persian ruler is.
Through the various cultural relics excavated later, it is shown that during the reign of the Persian emperor, the image of the Persian emperor was basically absent in the daily life of the commoners, and only in the more formal official documents, the commoners would use the abstract image of the Persian emperor to clarify the time of the official document and the legitimacy of the official document.
It is not difficult to deduce that ordinary people care more about life, and they can only choose to silently accept the part of Egypt that became Persia, at the very least, they agree that the Persian royal power is "powerful", even if there will be other grievances, it will not show too much.
The Persian rulers were too far away from the ordinary masses in Egypt, and the lack of such a connection was also extremely normal.
In the minds of the Egyptian commoners, the image of the Persian emperor was the main chronology of many legal texts, the embodiment of the supreme abstraction of power, the master of the officials large and small who governed them, and because of the distance, these rulers were even more mysterious and powerful in their minds.
Compared with the previous pharaohs, the Persian Empire was larger, and for ordinary people, the rulers on the top were even more "illusory", and many ordinary egyptians have always continued their previous habits, and it is not even clear when the Persian emperor began to replace the rule of the Egyptian pharaohs.
The Persian emperor took into account various factors and finally chose to combine his royal power with the traditional image of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh after the conquest of Egypt, which was also the most convenient way to maintain the Persian royal power.
Over time, however, their understanding of kingship was gradually assimilated by the traditional Egyptian ideals.
Under the rule of Persia, the traditional Egyptian civilization and the powerful Persian civilization had a fierce collision and fusion, and the previously relatively closed Egyptian civilization was forced to integrate into the vast Persian imperial system under the strong leadership of the Persian rulers.
The canals of ancient Egypt, which had been silted for a long time, were also dredged and became a water passage connecting the Nile and the Persian Gulf, which further promoted the realization of exchanges.
Even if the ideas are different, in the change of dynasties, it is still force that determines everything, which is also a major feature.
It can also be said that the Persian conquest and rule of Egypt was the first time that Egyptian civilization was truly integrated into the eastern Mediterranean civilization circle.
Later, with the rise of the Macedonian nation in northern Greece, King Alexander led an army south, swept through several city-states, unified Greece, and then occupied Egypt, making Egypt an integral part of Alexander's empire.
In the hundreds of years of Egyptian history after B.C., great changes have also taken place.
Egypt, having the foundations of communication with Mediterranean civilizations, became more easily integrated in the years that followed, and Alexander did not destroy the temple, but maintained respect, and then established the city of Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile.
These were also created by the foundation laid by the Persian Empire, and it was also they who gradually transformed the thinking of ancient Egypt, allowing them to identify with more powerful royal power.
