Egyptians were conquered by?

Question

At the end of the New kingdom, Egyptians were conquered by _____ and ______ at the end of the New kingdom

Mind helping? I dont have my text book, and my partners hand writing is eh, So i cant tell what it says

Answer 1

The Hyksos, mentioned by the previous responder, controlled part of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, which is BEFORE the New Kingdom. Nor is it entirely clear that the Hyksos represent a sudden invasion/conquest of Egypt by a foreign group. Instead, it appears that the Hyksos were made of, in part, of West Asian (Asiatic) people who had emigrated to Egypt during the Middle Kingdom in fairly large numbers and established themselves in Egypt, especially in the Delta, and were able to take advantage of the power vacuum with the collapse of strong centralized government at the end of the Middle Kingdom. While there may have been some degree of invasion from Western Asia, there is not a lot of evidence for this during the early SIP. Most of the military activity associated with the Hyksos occurs later in the SIP when they come into conflict with the native Egyptian dynasty based at Thebes. The "invasion" model is based on Manetho's rather inaccurate account and his mistranslation of the term "heka khasut" in Egyptian.

Egypt wasn't really conquered directly after the end of the New Kingdom. There was a period of decentralized government and disorder, called the Third Intermediate Period. There is a dynasty in the earlier part of the Third Intermediate Period called the Libyan Dynasty, but this doesn't really mean that the Libyans invaded and conquered Egypt. Rather, Libyans had been conquered by the Egyptians, resettled in Egypt and integrated (to an extent) with Egyptian society while still maintaining some of their own cultural traditions. The Libyans eventually gained enough power and prestige to be able to call themselves "kings" in Egypt. Near the end of the Third Intermediate Period, people from ancient Nubia (modern Sudan), with a kingdom based at the city of Napata (called the Napatan or Kushite Kings) did invade Egypt and take control of the country, forming what scholars now call the 25th Dynasty.

The 25th Dynasty came to an end in Egypt when the Assyrians invaded, though the Napatan kingdom flourished for some time afterward in Nubia.

Following the Assyrian invasion, which led to only brief control of Egypt by the Assyrians, native Egyptians took control of the country, at the beginning of the Late Period with the 26th Dynasty. Then the Persians invaded, were kicked out, invaded again, and were finally defeated by Alexander the Great, leading to the eventual control of Egypt by one of Alexander's generals, Ptolemy, and his descendants.

Answer 2

The Hyksos. These are a mysterious people whom no one knows much about. They conquered Egypt about 1600 BCE. They had horses, which the Egyptians knew nought of, and they drove chariots, also new to the Egyptians.