What did the Hyksos do before they attacked Egypt?
The Hyksos (Egyptian heqa khasewet, “foreign rulers”; shepherd kings) were an Asiatic people who invaded the eastern Nile Delta, in the Twelfth dynasty of Egypt initiating the Second Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt. The Hyksos first appeared in the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt, began their climb to power in the Thirteenth dynasty of Egypt and came out the other side of the second intermediate period in control of Avaris and the delta. By the Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt they ruled lower Egypt and at the end of the Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt they were expelled. The hiatus in the rule of their own land by the Egyptians extended from the end of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt to the start of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt and the move of the capital to Thebes. Traditionally, only the six Fifteenth Dynasty rulers are called Hyksos. The Hyksos had Canaanite names, as seen in those which contain the names of Semitic deities such as Anath or Ba’al. They introduced new tools of warfare into Eg
