The first ruler of this period dealt with the defection of Nimlot by sending his generals Lemersekny and Purem north to defeat Nimlot at Khemenu, after which he conquered the territory of Tefnakht.
The first ruler of this period dealt with the defection of Nimlot by sending his generals Lemersekny and Purem north to defeat Nimlot at Khemenu, after which he conquered the territory of Tefnakht. Another ruler of this period had a Mayor of the City named Mentuemhet who oversaw his building projects at the Sacred Lake in Karnak. Its first ruler installed his sister Amenirdis I as the God's Wife of Amun, and took power after an invasion by his father Kashta. This period ended with the rise of Psamtik I, after its fourth king was chased out of Egypt by Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal. That pharaoh of this period was Taharqa, who was the son of its first king Piye. This period coincides with the final dynasty of the Third Intermediate Period, and its rulers came from a namesake kingdom which had capitals at Napata and Meroe. FTP, name this Egyptian period often known by the name of a kingdom in Sudan.    
The first ruler of this period dealt with the defection of Nimlot by sending his generals Lemersekny and Purem north to defeat Nimlot at Khemenu, after which he conquered the territory of Tefnakht.
Twenty-Fifth Dynasty or the Kushite Empire (or accept the Nubian Empire, prompt on the "Third Intermediate Period" before mentioned)