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Notes on video lecture:
1800-1500 BCE: Kamose and Ahmose Expelling the Hyksos
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on March 23, 2017 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
hippopotimi, Avaris, Apophis, Egypt, Amenhotep, Nubia, Kamose, Hyksos, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, Thebes, Luxor, Delta, Hatshepsut, Thutmose, elite, smashed, monotheist, Sequenenre, hands, Intermediate, Kab
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Second                          Period (Dynasties 15-17)
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1800-1500 BCE
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the most important center in Egypt was the Delta city of             
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ruled by the Hyksos King               
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Hyksos means "foreign ruler" in Egyptian
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Egypt seemed to be ruled then by a Palestinian immigrant elite
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the south of Egypt
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capital is             
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economically poorer
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ruler: Seqenenre
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Apophis vs.                     
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a trickster's tale
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Apophis sends a letter to Sequenenre
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complains that                        in the palace pool are keeping him awake
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the rest of the story is lost
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Sequenenre's mummy was found
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his head                in
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King              (1555-1550)
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two stelae picked up this story
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took decisive military initiatives he took against the             
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complains that his area of power is sandwiched by Asiatic rule in the north (the Hyksos), and Nubian rule in the south
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gives an account of campaigns through Egypt capturing large areas of territory
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plundering widely
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besieging the city of Avaris, in the Nile           
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Ahmose I (1549–1524 BCE)
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complete political control of           
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began New Kingdom of Egypt (1550-1077 BCE)
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18th Dynasty (1550–1298 BCE)
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5.                      (1479–1458 BCE)
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longest-reigning woman-pharaoh
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6.                  III (1479–1425 BCE)
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the Napolean of Egypt
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sixth Pharaoh of 18th dynasty
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9.                    III (1391–1353 BCE)
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unprecedented prosperity and artistic splendor
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10.                    (1353–1336 BCE)
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abandoned traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten, a                      religion
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12.                        (1332–1323 BCE)
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tomb was found by Howard Carter in 1922
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known as King Tut
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19th Dynasty
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20th Dynasty
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brought up in town of El        in south
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south of           
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gives an account of a string of battles that include capture of Avaris
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took           
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appears to be a kind of trophy
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rewarded with gold, slaves and land
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effects of these campaigns is the establishment of a military            in Egypt
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during his reign, he completed the conquest and expulsion of the Hyksos from the delta region, restored Theban rule over the whole of Egypt and successfully reasserted Egyptian power in its formerly subject territories of            and Canaan
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member of the Theban royal house

Spelling Corrections:

Palistinian ⇒ Palestinian
beseiging ⇒ besieging
hippopotimi ⇒ hippopotami
1800-1500 BCE: Kamose and Ahmose Expelling the Hyksos