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The Middle and New Kingdoms (Invasions of Egypt (Once Ramses The Great…
The Middle and New Kingdoms
The Middle Kingdom
In 2200 BC the Old Kingdom had fallen ito chaos and their was no central leader so they fell into ecomomic famine and hardship.
Then a pharaoh named Mentuhotep jumped in and got Egypt in order until 1750 BC. This period was called the Middle Kingdom.
At this time the nobles used their positions in government to overpower the pharaohs.
Again Egypt fell into chaos and a group from Southwest Asia named the Hyksos invaded Lower Egypt and took over for 200 years.
At the end of the Old Kingdom the wealth and the power of the pharaohs went down due to the cost of building and maintaining pyramids.
Finnally, they fought back with Amhose of Thebes and drove them out of gypt. He then declared himself king of Egypt.
Invasions of Egypt
Once Ramses The Great died invaders called the Sea Peoples sailed into Southwest Asia and crushed the Hittites and destroyed cities in Southwest Asia.
But the Egyptains fought them off after 50 years.
To the west, people called the Tehenu invaded the Nile Delta and got fought off by Ramses. They tried again a century later but got defeated again by the strengthened army.
He fought the Hittites, but none of them could win so they signed a peace treaty and became allies.
Egypt was fine but the Sea Peoples destroyed their Empire in Southwest Asia.
In the 1200s BC, a pharaoh named Ramses The Great came to power in Egypt.
After these invasions, the New Kingdom came to an end and experienced another period of chaos. It would never regain power.
The New Kingdom
They got rich off of annual payments of gold and other items from their conquered kingdoms.
Their conquest also brought more trade routes with valuable items.
They conquered the homeland of the Syksos, Syria, and Kush. So they ruled the whole eastern shore of the Mediterranean. At 1400 BC their empire extended from the Euphrates river to Southern Nubia.
Queen Hatshepsut helped with the growth of trade too by sending traders to Punt, Asia Minor, and Greece.
Fearing future invasions to the New Kingdom the Egyptains took control of all of the possible invasion routes and turned Egypt into an empire.
She used this money to build art and impressive monuments.