What we know about him, from the many monuments and from Erodoto, shows the successes and the tensions of the saitico Egypt. The Greek and the Cari that had been in the country for a long time, had been the tools for the victories by the Psammetico. Under the pharaoh Apries, the native militaries, feeling devalued after the disastrous campaign in Libia, brought Amasis to the power and destroyed with their number the foreign mercenaries. This General understanding that the future of the techniques was in the Greek, became “philohellenic”: alliance with Cirene, gifts to Delfi and Samo, commercial developments in Naukratis, moving to Menfi of the Ioni and the Cari military colonies. The only military expedition was the conquest of Cipro (where the Egyptian art had a great influence).
Around 570 BC, Egypt had avoided miraculously an invasion by Babylon and for this, the prudent Amasis chose not to interfere in Asia, while Ciro of Persia conquered Anatolia and the empire of Babylon.
It’s believed that Amasis invented the income tax return. The documents seem to prove his role as legislator for the fiscal and custom regulations, and state entity of his program concerning the monuments (the sacred Sais lake, the naos in Sais and Mendes). It seems that this pharaoh was a scandalous drinker and a not really delicate joker, but the inscriptions tells us he established a lasting cult for the statues, while he spread his divine protection on the ministers.
Erodoto said: “Under Amasis Egypt was as prosper as ever, thanks to the gifts of the Nile to the land and the gifts of the land to the people”.