Egypt and rebuilding the nation. During the decline of the middle kingdom, Sequentre Tao the pharaoh of the 17th dynasty during the second intermediate period and was also the father of both Kamose and Ahmose. Seqnenre Tao was killed in battle whilst in conflict the Hyksos. The death of his father enraged Kamose and he swore to avenge his passing and succeeded him as pharaoh and king of Eg...
The Hyksos (heqa khasawet) occupied New Kingdom Egypt throughout the 15th - 17th dynasty (a period of Egyptian decline) before their eventual expulsion by Pharaoh Ahmose and the commencing of the 18th dynasty. The Hyksos appear to mainly had a positive impact on the Egyptians however there is negativity shown through propaganda however little archaeological evidence shows the Hyksos were highly important to the development of New Kingdom Egypt, this was through several new technologies brought in
The Egyptians eventually dealt with the Hyksos through a campaign of attacks that displaced the foreigners from Egypt. Seqenenre Tao II is originally thought to have initiated the Egyptian’s war of liberation. Kamose then made significant progress in the expulsion of the Hyksos through the use of medjay mercenaries to attack Nefrusi and the outskirts of Avaris. However, Ahmose I completed the expulsion of the Hyksos through his likely adoption of Hyksos weaponry to subjugate Avaris and Sharuhen.
the Sinai Peninsula had established their capital at Avaris in the Delta to rule over the Egyptians. The first pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty was Ahmose I and was greatly impacted by the Hyksos influence. His father, Seqenenre Tao II, and his brother, Kamose, both fought against the foreign control. However, both died and Egypt was still under control of the Hyksos. Ahmose I continued the fight against the Hyksos that his father and brother had started. He was successful by finally defeating the Hyksos
control lasted through the 13 Pharaohs of the Eighteenth Dynasty, from 1550 to 1292BC, nine Pharaohs of the Nineteenth Dynasty, from 1292 to 1190BC, and the first two Pharaohs of the Twentieth Dynasty, from 1190 to 1155BC. In 1540BC, Egyptian Pharaoh Kamose unsuccessfully began a military campaign to drive out the Hyksos, who ruled over northern Egypt from 1650 to 1552BC, from the city Avaris located in northern Egypt. His brother,
introduced the horse and chariot, the compound bow, improved battle-axes and advanced fortification techniques into Egypt. Their chief deity was the Egyptian storm and desert god, Seth. Under the Hyksos rulers Seqeneenre and Kamose the Thebans began a revolt spread northward under Kamose until, in about 1521, Avaris feel to his successor, Ahmose, founder of the 18th Dynasty (Tyldesley, 1996:24-25). This was the beginning of ?The New Kingdom,? characterized by god-like pharaohs who left immense temples
It is a well-established fact that the population of Ancient Egypt was a multicultural one, and that the nation's history is closely linked with that of it's neighbours. `It has been recognized since the early years of Egyptology that by New Kingdom times the population of Egypt was liberally sprinkled with families of foreign origin.' (Ward: 1994.). These `foreigners' included groups such as Nubians, Canaanites, `Asiatics,' (people of Semitic origin to the north-east of Egypt), and Libyans. In