Establishment of the Twenty-Eighth Dynasty of Egypt (Guardians)

The Establishment of the Twenty-Eighth Dynasty of Egypt refers to a series of tensions and armed conflicts that involved the separation of Egypt from the Achaemenid Persian Empire and the centralization of the newly independent country under a new dynasty. The struggles ultimately resulted in the first natively governed Egypt since the Persian conquest in 525 B.C.

The Egyptian population had never really accepted their Persian governors, and when the Achaemenid Empire suffered dynastic struggles and general instability, they rose in revolt. A nobleman of Libyan descent, Inaros, rallied the Egyptians behind him in order to drive out the Persians. He reached out to the Athenians, the masters of the eastern Mediterranean, for assistance. The Athenians, seeking to weaken Persian imperial power and eventually seize Egypt for their own designs, happily agreed to help Inaros and his forces. With three hundred Athenian ships and an expedition to assist them, the Egyptians were easily able to push the Persians back into Judea.