iods also can be compared and contrasted.

The large-scale immigration of foreigners into the Nile Valley during the Middle Kingdom eventually spelled the end of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt. These foreigners remained non-naturalized "Asiatics" in the land of the pharaohs; they established their own communities and lived by their own laws. Eventually, as their numbers increased, they threatened the power of the Egyptian monarchy itself and Egypt fell into disarray.

After the collapse of the Nineteenth Dynasty, the Ramesside kings, Egypt descended into another period of political chaos. This chaos began during the kingship of the last Ramesside king, Ramsses XI. After the death of Ramsses XI, a man named Smendes claimed the throne. From this point on, no one was really in charge of Egypt.

The Hyksos seem to have adopted Egyptian manners, laws, and theories of monarchy. As so often happened in the ancient world, the foreign conquerors adopted the ways of the conquered. But the Hyksos dream of becoming Egyptian died within a century. A ferocious Egyptian family from Luxor waged a brilliant and fierce set of wars with the Hyksos kings and finally drove them out of Egypt by 1550 BC. Amosis, the great general who finally drove out the Hyksos, then founded a new dynasty, the Eighteenth Dynasty, and ushered in the era of the New Kingdom.

Some topics in this essay:
River Nile, River Egypt, Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Intermediate Periods, Hyksos Hyksos, Dynasty Egyptian, Period Egypt, Dynasty Ramesside, Palestine Syria, ancient egypt, middle kingdom, dynasty egyptian, ramesside kings, local governors, intermediate periods, period political chaos, period political, dynasty ramesside, kings egypt, political chaos, dynasty ramesside kings, nineteenth dynasty ramesside,