First Civilizations - Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt (Second Edition) - Robert Chadwick
16 Egypt in the late second and first millenniums BC
First Civilizations - Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt (Second Edition) - Robert Chadwick
Robert Chadwick [+]
Bishop's University
Robert Chadwick is the co-director of the Wadi ath-Thamad Project and currently teaches in the Religion Department at Bishops University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Description
This chapter looks at how a series of invasions beginning about halfway through its 3000-year history affected Egyptian life. Topics include: - the coming of the Libyans - the Sea Peoples - Egypt and the end of the New Kingdom - the Third Intermediate Period - Egypt under Libyan rule - Egypt returns to Asia - Kush and Assyria: the struggle for Egypt - Assyria in Egypt - Necho II: the Sea King - foreign policy in Syria-Palestine - the last great Pharoh - the death of King Amasis II