Truly "traditional" enemies are really only Nubians, Libyans and "Asiatics" (what the Egyptians call people from the Levant). The Egyptians distinguish between different groups of people within all these categories, but they also use the categories broadly. The other three "enemies" listed on the map are only factors in the New Kingdom. As we mentioned briefly in class, while the Sea Peoples actually invade Egypt, Mitanni and the Hittites are major empires that Egypt only runs into on the far periphery. We'll cover them all in detail when we get to the New Kingdom; I put them on this map so you could get a geographic sense of where Egypt's enemies lie.
Posted at Mar 01/2010 07:01PM:
Jon Casper: What causes a king to be associated with a new Dynasty rather than the one that preceded him? Are the lines between Dynasties drawn based on their overall significance, when a ruler's actions depart from those of his predecessors, and when the collective actions of multiple sequential kings can be similarly characterized?
Posted at Mar 02/2010 10:41AM:
Evan Jacobs: a change in bloodline?
