A visual component to be used with Episode 12 of Rob Monaco's Pocast History of the World.

1. Episode 12: The Hyksos J. Marshall 2013

2. BCE/CE

4. Hyksos invaders
• Egypt got
complacent
(lazy)
Hit Lower and
Middle Egypt
BRONZE weapons +
Chariots Egyptians gave up; they didn’t die
(like mobile artillery) fighting.

6. Egyptian Chariot

7. (Hutwaret)– Capital of Egypt
under the Hyksos
• SOME say it
wasn’t a
violent
invasion
• But really a
combo of
immigration
and invasion

8. • Town after town gave
up – they moved to
Thebes
• The Hyksos created
trade alliances with
Kush – leaving the
Egyptians at Thebes
out (the Egyptians lost
Nubian gold this way).

9. Upper Egypt gets
weak

10. Apepi
• Hyksos ruler of the lower Kingdom
• Thebes revolts against Apepi, but
their king, SeqenenreTaa the Brave,
dies.

11. Seqenenre

12. Seqenenre

13. Kamose
Stela
• Kamose, takes
over at Thebes
• Hyksos used
propaganda – pay
a tax = get free
land
• Kamose attacks
Kushites (gets
Nubian support).

14. Kush:the
kingdom south
Nubia, south of
Egypt
Apepi wants the
people of Kush to
help him fight and
destroy Kamose
and the Egyptians
at Thebes

15. Kamose
• Kush never sent its
army down stream
to help Apepi.
• Kamose dies before
he can give full
defeat to Apepi.

16. Ahmose
• Just 10
years old
• Encircled
the Hyksos
capital,
captured it,
then killed
and looted
all.

17. Upper Nile Region
Abu /

18. Ahmose chased the Ahmose took the
Hyksos for 3 years. crown of Upper
and Lower
Teddy the Kingdom and theis
Handsome rose begins the New
anew in Nubia. Kingdom.
Ahmose went south
and broke the This gives birth to
rebels. a new EMPIRE in
Egypt.

19. fin