Section 4 The New Kingdom pp. 74-78

Ahmose began the "New Kingdom."
Hatshepsut
Thutmose III controls Syria and Palestine.

Ahmose
Ahmose called the "Napoleon of Egypt" drove the Hyksos out of Egypt.

Hatshepsut
She was half-sister and wife to Thutmose II. When her husband died she was appointed to rule until her young stepson Thutmose III, was of age.  She was ambitious and crowned herself Pharoah.  Hatshepsut reigned from 1498 - 1483 BC.  Some say she was the mother of Tutankahnen.

Hatshepsut Trades with Punt.
In the summer of the eighth year of her reign, Queen Hatshepsut (1498-1483 BCE) sent Senenmet (Neshi) with a fleet of five ships with thirty rowers each from Qoseir, on the Red Sea, to the Land of Punt, called "God's Land", which was probably in the Horn of Africa.  It was primarily a trading expedition busy with buying myrrh and myrrh saplings, frankincense and fragrant unguents used for cosmetics and in religious ceremonies, but some animals and plants of no economic importance were also collected, brought back to Egypt and realistically depicted on Hatshepsut's temple walls at Deir el-Bahri, near Luxor in the Valley of the Kings.

... loading of the ships very heavily with marvels of the country of Punt; all goodly fragrant woods of God's-Land [the East], heaps of myrrh resin, with fresh myrrh trees, with ebony and pure ivory, with green gold of Emu, with cinnamon wood, khesyt wood, with two kinds of incense, eye-cosmetic, with apes, monkeys, dogs, and with skins of the southern panther, with natives and their children. Never was brought the like of this for any king who has been since the beginning         Breasted, A History of the Early World

A report of that voyage survives on a relief in Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir el-Bahri. Several of her successors, including Thutmoses III, also organized expeditions to Punt. The incense-trees were planted before the temple at Deir el-Bahri and their roots can still be seen.

Thutmose III
Thutmose III destroys Hatshepsut's name from all public buildings and statues.

Religion
Egyptians begin worshipping Amon.
Thebes becomes capital.
Amon-Re new god,
Temples were industrial centers.
Temples were schools to teach a young boy to be a scribe.
Scribes kept records.
Egyptian writing was called hieroglyphics.

Decline of Egypt
Priests gained power and wealth.
1370 BC, Amenhotep IV, closed temples and worshipped Aton. (one god).
1360 BC Tutankhamen becomes pharoah,
Priests make King Tut return to old religion.
Money was spent on war.
Money was spent importing iron ore to make weapons.
1150 BC, Egypt's empire was gone.