This is called the First Intermediate Period
             Then in 1991 BCE, the Twelfth dynasty brought order to the turmoil and founded what is now called the Middle Kingdom. During this time Egypt took over Nubia and began trade with Palestine and Syria in southwest Asia. Also, this was time where arts and literature were promoted and flourished. But in the year 1786 BCE, the Middle Kingdom ended, leaving the kings of the next dynasties weak and without a standing army. This allowed for settlers from Asia to take gradual control over Egypt with their new and stronger weapons.
             The Egyptians had no feasible way of stopping the Hyksos from taking control, of the country. Lower Egypt was unable to defend themselves because of the fighting between nobles and there was no army available to stop the invaders. In no time, the Hyksos had taken over all of the delta region, which shrank the portion of free Egypt into a small area up towards Nubia; Egypt's long time enemy. As well as taking Egypt, they gave a large part of Egyptian land to Nubia. The major gold producing region of Egypt was now in the hands of their enemy. The Hyksos were not bad rulers thou
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