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What are Hyksos?

What are Hyksos? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A mixed group of Asiatic people from Western Asia who took over the eastern Nile Delta, ending the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt and initiating the Second Intermediate Period.
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There's good evidence that by the time of the Hyksos, a large part of Egyptian culture was lost to the Egypt of the day.
From around 1700 bc a much lighter chariot drawn by only two animals was developed, with which the Hyksos conquered Egypt.
In 1575 B.C., a Thebian dynasty drove out the Hyksos and reunited the kingdom.
The account probably takes inspiration from historical events: the expulsion of the Hyksos from the valley of the Nile.
After the Bronze Age, Amorites, Western Semites, Hyksos and Hittites successively invaded the area.
The Egyptians under the Hyksos pharaohs invaded the Near East, and then came to Greece.

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