Summary of Eric H. Cline's 1177 B.C.

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The city of Peru-nefer, in the Nile delta of Lower Egypt, was excavated by the Austrian archaeologist Manfred Bietak and his team. It was a Minoan city that had been conquered by Thutmose III around 1477 BC. The city had been known as Avaris, capital city of the Hyksos, until it was captured by Thutmose’s ancestor Kamose around 1550 BC.
#2 The Hyksos were a group of Semites who invaded Egypt and ruled it for nearly two centuries, from 1720 to 1550 BC. They were the first foreign rulers of Egypt, and their success may have been due to their advantage in weapons technology and first-strike capability.
#3 The final battle against the Hyksos, which took place in about 1550 BC, was won by the Egyptians. They expelled the Hyksos from the land, and established the Eighteenth Dynasty, begun by Kamose’s brother Ahmose.
#4 The city of Avaris was rebuilt during this period, and was renamed Peru-nefer. It was a flourishing city, and was home to many Minoan-style frescoes.

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• ancient
• Général

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 04 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669349792
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

The city of Peru-nefer, in the Nile delta of Lower Egypt, was excavated by the Austrian archaeologist Manfred Bietak and his team. It was a Minoan city that had been conquered by Thutmose III around 1477 BC. The city had been known as Avaris, capital city of the Hyksos, until it was captured by Thutmose’s ancestor Kamose around 1550 BC.

#2

The Hyksos were a group of Semites who invaded Egypt and ruled it for nearly two centuries, from 1720 to 1550 BC. They were the first foreign rulers of Egypt, and their success may have been due to their advantage in weapons technology and first-strike capability.

#3

The final battle against the Hyksos, which took place in about 1550 BC, was won by the Egyptians. They expelled the Hyksos from the land, and established the Eighteenth Dynasty, begun by Kamose’s brother Ahmose.

#4

The city of Avaris was rebuilt during this period, and was renamed Peru-nefer. It was a flourishing city, and was home to many Minoan-style frescoes.

#5

The Minoans of Crete had interactions with several areas in the ancient Near East long before they interacted with the Egyptian pharaohs. They had traded items like gold and lapis lazuli, as well as textiles and physicians.

#6

The first recorded instance of gift giving between kings occurred between Zimri-Lim, king of Mari, and King Hammurabi of Babylon. The text simply says, One pair of leather shoes in the Caphtorian style, which to the palace of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, Bahdi-Lim (an official) carried, but which were returned.

#7

The Minoans were a civilization that flourished on Crete from ca. 1700 BC until ca. 1200 BC. They were in contact with several areas in the ancient Near East, and their writing was discovered on clay tablets and other objects. However, they never gave their name.

#8

The goods traded during the Late Bronze Age were mostly perishable, but some were not. The most abundant signposts of the trade routes and international contacts may have perished, disintegrated, or otherwise disappeared in antiquity.

#9

During the reign of Thutmose III, Egypt began to have contact with Minoan Crete. The Egyptians knew about Minoan royalty and understood them to be on a par with those from other foreign areas.

#10

The term inw, which is usually translated as tribute, is actually a term that means gift in Egyptian. It was used to describe objects that were brought to Egypt as a gift.

#11

Hatshepsut, the daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose, was the first female pharaoh of Egypt. She ruled for more than twenty years, while Thutmose III waited in the background.

#12

Thutmose III sent several expeditions to Punt, and received inw from several foreign areas. His scribes mention Isy, a coalition of city-states in northwest Anatolia, at least four times in his inscriptions.

#13

When Thutmose III began his first campaign, in 1479 BC, he marched his men up from Egypt for ten days, as far north as the site of Yehem. There he stopped to hold a war council and decide how best to proceed against the fortified city of Megiddo and the surrounding temporary camps of the local Canaanite rulers.

#14

The Battle of Megiddo, which took place in 1878, was won by the Egyptians, who were able to take prisoner hundreds of German and Turkish soldiers. It was later repeated by General Edmund Allenby in 1918, with the same successful results.

#15

The Mitannian kingdom, which was based in what is now northern Syria, grew very quickly after the death of Thutmose I. It was known by several names, depending on the time period and who was writing or talking about it.

#16

The Hittite Empire was a major power in the Middle East during the Bronze Age. In 1430 BC, King Tudhaliya I/II put down an Assuwa rebellion led by King Duthaliya. He dedicated these swords to the storm-god, his lord.

#17

The Hittites, a Bronze Age civiliza