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[QUOTE]Originally posted by osirion: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by osirion: [qb] The Hyksos made an alliance with the Nubians. This imagery of Egypts hatred for the Hyksos Asiatics and Nubians clearly demonstrates the New Kingdom's aggressive policy of imperialism. [IMG]http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/enemies6.jpg[/IMG][/qb][/QUOTE]Both Asiatics and Kushites threatened Egyptian hegemony in the Nile Valley, not to mention the nation-state itself so of course the Egyptians during the New Kingdom had aggressive foreign policies! [QUOTE][qb]In review of the story of Moses this is an interesting correlation. An alliance between Asiatics and Nubians that when crushed brings about the New Kingdom which starts a policy of aggressive imperialism which results in enslavement of the Hebrew people.[/qb][/QUOTE]Perhaps, but many Asiatics were enslaved regardless of whether they were Hebrew or not. [QUOTE][qb]Furthermore, such a reprisal against the Hyksos may have been due to the aggressive military control that the Hyksos used to maintain their dominance over the native Egyptian people. When we consider that the introduction of copper weapons, horses and charriots came from the Hyksos, we immeadiately see a technological advantage that these Semitic people had over the Egyptians. The result may have been that the Hyksos were a minority in the Egyptian nation but due to technological advantage was able to maintain control over the populace. Though like during Ptolemic times, the Hyksos colonial lords adopted Egyptian culture like the Greeks did, they were still despised. Considering this evidence, the Hyksos may not have used military power to gain dominance in Egypt but they certainly used it to maintain such dominance. That dominance included the use of Nubians to maintain the subjugation of the native Egyptians.[/qb][/QUOTE] :o You have already been told that metalurgy, specifically copper was already used by the Egyptians since the beginning of the dynastic age. Why are you still talking about Hyksos introducing copper weapons?! The only new and useful technology the Hyksos introduced which the Egyptians adopted was the horse and chariot and the composite bow. [QUOTE][qb]Then we add in the story of Moses and a Nubian woman: Numbers 12 1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. Considering the alliance between Hyksos and Nubians it is not surprising that such a marriage would be noted and passed down in oral history. [/qb][/QUOTE]Actually, scripture merely described Moses's wife as 'kushi' meaning black and states that he met her and her family in the deserts to the east in Sinai. We really don't know for certain what her origins are. [/qb][/QUOTE]Actually its Bronze weapons that the Hyksos utilized over the Egyptians since it would appear that there is evidence for Egyptians using copper arrowheads from the 11th dynasty. --> The Hyksos did eventually utilize superior bronze weapons, chariots and composite bows to help them take control of Egypt. http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/hyksos.htm This reference was incorrect to copper weapons but it is where I got my information from: --> They came to Egypt with horses, chariots and copper weapons, which the Egyptians would later adapt for their own armies. http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/enemies.htm Maybe it was the type of copper weapons that we advantagous to the Hyksos? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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