53: Rulers of Foreign Lands - The Second Intermediate Period (Part 2)

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Second Intermediate Period (Part 2). How did the Hyksos take power? Around 1650 BCE, the 13th Dynasty crumbled away. Foreigners moving into Egypt over previous centuries now consolidated their authority over the north. Or was it an invasion, as classical histories describe? Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Select Bibliography: Daphna Ben-Tor, “Can Scarabs Argue for the Origin of the Hyksos?” Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, 1 (2009). FREE on Academia.edu. Nadine Moeller, et al., “Discussion of Late Middle Kingdom and Early Second Intermediate Period History and Chronology in Relation to the Khayan Sealings From Edfu.” Egypt and the Levant, XXI (2011). FREE on Academia.edu. Wolfram Grajetzki, “Notes on Administration in the Second Intermediate Period,” The Second Intermediate Period, 2010. Charlotte Booth, The Hyksos Period in Egypt, 2008. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.0	a Hello and welcome back to the Egyptian history podcast episode 53 the rulers of foreign lands. This episode is a special episode one I've been
1:17.2	looking forward to for a long time. It is a watershed moment in the history of
1:21.8	Egypt and will be feeling the repercussions of it for many episodes to come. In 1650 B.C. E.C. E.
1:47.0	in the delta. They governed in tandem with native Egyptians and managed their affairs in a traditional Egyptian
1:55.0	manner. For all intents and purposes, they were Egyptian kings in their own right.
2:00.5	They just had a slightly different set of cultural decorations.
2:04.0	In the South, the kingdom of Upper Egypt was governed from Memphis to Alephantine.
2:10.0	They were the political successors of a middle kingdom, but they were a poor shadow at best.
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