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 | Pharaoh Kamose of the Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt (reigned 1573 BC - 1570 BC). |
| Pharaoh Ramesses I of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt (reigned 1293 BC - 1291 BC). |
| Pharaoh Seti I of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt (reigned 1291 BC - 1278 BC). |
| Second Intermediate Period of Egypt - Academic Kids (527 words) |
| The brilliant Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty came to an end around 1786 BC, and was succeeded by the much weaker Thirteenth. |
| It was during the reign of his brother and successor, Sobekhotep IV, that the Hyksos made their first appearance, and around 1720 BC took control of the town of Avaris (the modern Tell ed-Dab'a/Khata'na), a few miles from Qantir. |
| The outlines of the traditional account of the "invasion" of the land by the Hyksos is preserved in the Aegyptiaca of Manetho, an Egyptian priest who wrote in the time of Ptolemy II Philadelphus. |
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