Middle Bronze Age Egypt - A Brief History

Amorite patchwork of city states extended across the entire fertile crescent. They were able to survive independently because there were no great empires that could threaten them. Somewhere around 17 hundred b c, egypt was invaded by the hixos semites from canaan. The new kingdom wreaking vengeance for a hundred and 50 years of foreign domination destroyed perhaps half of all the towns in canaan. Some cities were rebuilt soon, but many were abandoned. Only hatsor largest of canaan cities really flourished in the centuries of the late bronze age. And this was not the only calamity tha canaan endured. Agriculture in the already marginal highlands was devastated. Bandits roamed the