hyksos in English

noun
1
a people of mixed Semitic and Asian descent who invaded Egypt and settled in the Nile delta circa 1640 bc . They formed the 15th and 16th dynasties of Egypt and ruled a large part of the country until driven out circa 1532 bc.
The Egyptians under the Hyksos pharaohs invaded the Near East, and then came to Greece.

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1. In Egyptian Hyksos means "ruler(s) of foreign countries", however, Josephus mistranslated Hyksos as "Shepherd Kings".

2. After defeating the Hyksos, Ahmose began campaigning in Syria and Nubia.

3. Kamose states his reasons for an attack on the Hyksos was nationalistic pride.

4. The Hyksos occupied Egypt and cast it into a cultural decline that persisted until a revival brought about by her policies and innovations.

5. Based on a seriation of the scarab seals of the Second Intermediate Period available in 1900, George Willoughby Fraser was able to date Sheshi's reign to "a short dynasty before the Hyksos invasion".

6. Then a famine of catastrophic proportions triggered an attack from Aramaean tribes, (Aramaean is the name given to the confederation of Amorite tribes which had evolved, perhaps as a result of the Hyksos expulsion, to form a country called Aram).