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    The History of Ancient Egypt: The Second Intermediate Period: Weiliao Series: Ancient Egypt Series, #5
    The History of Ancient Egypt: The Second Intermediate Period: Weiliao Series: Ancient Egypt Series, #5
    The History of Ancient Egypt: The Second Intermediate Period: Weiliao Series: Ancient Egypt Series, #5
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    The History of Ancient Egypt: The Second Intermediate Period: Weiliao Series: Ancient Egypt Series, #5

    By Hui Wang

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    "Weiliao" is a series program that tells the story of the world, it created by Wei Yi Culture and Media AB, and launched in 2020. The content touches on history, science, technology, astronomy, geography, music, and more.

     

    The "The History of Ancient Egypt" is a series of books to tell the historical stories of Ancient Egypt, and the stories run through the whole of Ancient Egypt. This book "The Second Intermediate Period" is the fifth episode, the historical period includes from the Thirteenth Dynasty through to the Seventeenth Dynasty. The content includes the division of the Middle Kingdom, and three kingdoms(Thirteen/Seventeenth Dynasty, Hyksos Dynasty, Abydos Dynasty). There is more exciting content in the book is looking forward to your reading.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWei Yi Culture and Media AB
    Release dateNov 3, 2020
    ISBN9789189209114
    The History of Ancient Egypt: The Second Intermediate Period: Weiliao Series: Ancient Egypt Series, #5

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      The History of Ancient Egypt - Hui Wang

      Introduction

      The The History of Ancient Egypt is a series of books to tell the historical stories of Ancient Egypt, and the stories run through the whole of Ancient Egypt. This book The Second Intermediate Period is the fifth episode, the historical period includes from the Thirteenth Dynasty through to the Seventeenth Dynasty. The content includes the division of the Middle Kingdom, and three kingdoms(Thirteen/Seventeenth Dynasty, Hyksos Dynasty, Abydos Dynasty). There is more exciting content in the book is looking forward to your reading.

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      The Hyksos Invasion

      The Hyksos Invasion

      The Second Intermediate Period was preceded by the Middle Kingdom. It is at the beginning of the 13 th dynasty after the death of Sobekneferu. She was the queen of ancient Egypt at the end of the 12 th dynasty in the Middle Kingdom. She rose to power under natural circumstances although her ability to lead was undoubtful. She was the first-ever queen to have ruled ancient Egypt in the 12 th dynasty after the death of Amenemhat IV, who was her brother. After his death, she was the only royal member remaining and old enough to have taken up the mantle, her sister who was legal also having died even before her father Amenemhat III. Her death brought some confusion to the formation of the political system in the kingdom considering she died in a time that there was no heir to the throne. Her death marked the end of the 12 th dynasty which was considered as the height of the Middle Kingdom, a time when Egypt experienced their best in politics, peace, and economy. It is during this peaceful time that saw people from the neighboring countries migrate into Ancient Egypt in the name of trade. They became comfortable in their new environment and even built their kingdom within Ancient Egypt. This group finally invited a Persian origin group, Hyksos, as another kingdom into Egypt. Their entry into Egypt was well-timed as they came a time when Egypt was in a confusion in the leadership and therefore, they were able to find their way up into national politics.

      This was just the beginning of a time that would see Ancient Egypt enter into power struggle a game that will mainly be centered on the Hyksos and Thebans. The way into which foreigners came to learn on how they would be able to place themselves in a position that they would be able to control the whole country's politics is not yet known but it was a successful way. The reason why this is an interesting topic is that Ancient Egypt had just come from a season of peace and prosperity and no one was expecting any kind of upheavals to follow that soon. But the matters that unfolded on the royal family are one of the things that saw the country lose their track. Perhaps this can be viewed at one point as luck but on the other hand, perhaps it was a planned or an observed occurrence. Perhaps the foreign nationals had already seen the gap that was created once a queen came in place and had no heir in place to replace her with the capabilities of their predecessors, this means that those who would rise into power had no capabilities or had no full support from the country, therefore, this was a good point to start with, and this is the weakness that the Hyksos maximized on.

      At the beginning of the 13 th dynasty, which was the beginning of the Second Intermediate Period, ancient Egypt continued to be ruled from Itj-Tawi with Sebekhotep I as the king. In the beginning, the foreigners, or more so the Hyksos, started to rise gradually on the Lower Egypt starting with the Nubians who came as traders and others who were conquered earlier in the Middle Kingdom and finally came the Hyksos. The Hyksos with the help of Nubians established their rule until the 14 th dynasty they were able to control most of Egypt if not all. There existed rivalry between the kings who ruled in the 13 th dynasty on the basis that each who rose to power was the legitimate ruler and this made the country vulnerable and risked the stability that was set up by their predecessors in the Middle Kingdom. More additionally, most of the kings reigned for just a few years and

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