hyksos in A Sentence

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    The Hyksos were foreign occupiers from Asia who ruled Egypt for a century.

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    The Hyksos("foreign rulers") retained Egyptian models of government and identified as kings, thereby integrating Egyptian elements into their culture.

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    This period saw the Kassites destroy the Babylonian empire in Mesopotamia and the Hyksos destroy the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.

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    During this decline, the foreign Asiatic settlers began to seize control of the delta region, eventually coming to power in Egypt as the Hyksos.

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    After retreating south, the native Theban kings found themselves trapped between the Canaanite Hyksos ruling the north and the Hyksos' Nubian allies, the Kushites, to the south.

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    Horses were introduced by the Hyksos in the Second Intermediate Period, and the camel, although known from the New Kingdom, was not used as a beast of burden until the Late Period.

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