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Conflict Middle East

Expulsion of the Hyksos

1550 BCE – 1520 BCE · 30 years

Ahmose I expelled the Hyksos foreign rulers from the Nile Delta, reunifying Egypt and founding the Eighteenth Dynasty — beginning the New Kingdom, Egypt's most powerful era.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Theban Eighteenth Dynasty (Ahmose I)
  • Hyksos (Fifteenth Dynasty)

Key moments

Defining events in the Expulsion of the Hyksos.

  1. c. 1550 BC Siege of Avaris
  2. Pursuit into southern Canaan

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Valley of the Kings

1539 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Egypt

Attested 3000 BCE – 2026 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

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Hyksos Conquest of Lower Egypt

1650 BCE – 1550 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Great Pyramid of Giza

2560 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Elam

Attested 3000 BCE – 700 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Elamite–Babylonian Wars

1764 BCE – 1150 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1550 BCE and 1520 BCE.

1539 BCE Valley of the Kings 1550 BCE Mitanni–Hittite Rivalry

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Mitanni–Hittite Rivalry Conflict · Europe 1550 BCE – 1450 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Dravidians Polity · South Asia 3000 BCE – 700 BCE Plitvice Lakes Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing
Image credits4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Valley of the KingsFotograf/Photographer: Peter J. Bubenik (1995) · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Flag of EgyptDerived from Part IV Article (223) of the Constitution of The Arab Republic of Egypt. Col… · Public domain
  • Great Pyramid of GizaDouwe C. van der Zee · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Elam Map-enFile:Near East topographic map-blank.svg : Sémhur File:Elam-map-PL.svg : Wkotwica derivat… · CC BY-SA 3.0