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Welcome back to the Egyptian history podcast episode 56 the return of the king in this episode the war against the

Hicksos reaches its climax King Ahm Moses and his mother, Queen R. Hoteb, are in it to win it,

and they will wreak their vengeance on land and on river.

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donation via PayPal. Oh, Today's episode can be considered a sort of sequel to one that we released more than a year ago.

Episode 26, The Fire Rises, told the story of the first intermediate period and

the immense civil war which tore the country apart. At the end of that episode, the King of Thebes,

Montu Hotepe II, reunified the country and initiated the Middle Kingdom.

Today's episode takes place about 520 years after Montu Hotep's achievement, but the parallels are strong.

Egypt begins in disunity and disorder, with fighting between rival factions.

Then a king of Thebes emerges to dominate the political world

and finally achieves a reunification of the country. This process kick-starts a new era of political, economic and

cultural prosperity and becomes the third of Egypt's four golden ages. But there the similarities end, because the second

intermediate period caused changes in Egyptian society, changes that Montu Hotepe could never have predicted.

King Ahmosa and his family are about to begin something new, something unprecedented.

How we get there is the story of today's episode.

The story of the reunification takes place over approximately 21 years, but we only have firm records for about six months or so of that period.

The rest is fragmentary and shadowy, so we're going to have to adapt and improvise.

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