ANCIENT EGYPT during Joseph and Apepiand the Hyksos

KUFU known as Khafre KING OF ANCIENT eGYPT IN THE CITY OF tHEBES 


CITY OF THEBES KMOWN IN GREEKS AS tHEBAI KOWN IN ANCIENT GREEKS AS THE CITY OF TAPIU 


PHARAOH SEK HEMRE known as Amtef  also  known to the ancient hebrews as the Nimrod ruled the city of Nob

city of Nob , anciet egyptian city 

Egypt had been ruled from a site at the junction of the narrow Nile valley with the broad plain of the Delta  dDsruption of Egypt into separate kingdoms, which some of the dynasties live in the city of Thebes and the others in the ancieny city of Nob  took place, and that for a while several distinct dynasties bore sway in different parts of the country. Disruption was naturally accompanied by weakness and decline




AMENHOTEP KNOWN TO THEM AS Mentu-hotep I or Amenemhat 

During "twelfth dynasty," Amenemhat I.,. He found Thebes in a state of anarchy; civil war raged on every side; all the traditions of the past were forgotten; noble fought against noble; the poor were oppressed; life and property were alike insecure; "there was stability of fortune neither for the ignorant nor for the learned man."  However Amenemhat, having reigned as sole king for twenty years, was induced to raise his eldest son, Senusret known as  Usurtasen, to the royal dignity, and associate him with himself in the government of the empire. Usurtasen was a prince of much promise, He "brought prosperity to the affairs of his father. He was, as a god, without fears; before him was never one like to him. Most skilful in affairs, beneficent in his mandates, both in his going out and in his coming in he made Egypt flourish." His courage and his warlike capacity were great. Already, in the lifetime of his father, he had distinguished himself in combats with the Petti and the Sakti. When he was settled upon the throne, he made war upon the Cushite tribes who bordered Egypt upon the south, employing the services of a general named Ameni, but also taking a part personally in the campaign. The Cushites or Ethiopians, who in later times became such dangerous neighbours to Egypt, were at this early period weak and insignificant.

THE GREAT INVASION—THE HYKSÔS OR SHEPHERD KINGS—JOSEPH AND APEPI.

Egypt had been ruledby Hyksos  from a site at the junction of the narrow Nile valley with the broad plain of the Delta

 Egypt intowas ruled in  separate kingdoms e, and that for a while several distinct dynasties bore sway in different parts of the country. Disruption was naturally accompanied by weakness and decline. The old order ceased, and opportunity was offered for some new order—some new power—to assert itself. The site on which it arose was one three hundred and fifty miles distant from the ancient capital, or four hundred and more by the river. Here, about lat. 26°, the usually narrow valley of the Nile opens into a sort of plain or basin. The mountains on either side of the river recede, as though by common consent, and leave between themselves and the river's bank a broad amphitheatre, which in each case is a rich green plain—an alluvium of the most productive character—dotted with dom and date palms, sometimes growing single, sometimes collected into clumps or groves.