The Seventeenth Dynasty was a line of rulers based in Thebes in Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, when the north of the country was held by the foreign Hyksos kings and Nubia was independent to the south. For much of its history the dynasty was a vassal or uneasy neighbour of the Hyksos, but its later kings, among them Seqenenre Tao and his son Kamose, began a war of liberation. Seqenenre's mummy shows terrible head wounds, which suggest he died in battle or was killed. Kamose pushed north, and his brother Ahmose I completed the expulsion of the Hyksos and reunited Egypt, founding the Eighteenth Dynasty and the New Kingdom.
Before and after
- c. 1,645 BCEEruption of Aniakchak
- c. 1,610 BCEEruption of Santorini
- from c. 1,600 BCE to 1,046 BCEShang dynasty
- from c. 1,600 BCE to 1,100 BCEMycenaean Greece
- from c. 1,580 BCE to 1,550 BCESeventeenth Dynasty of Egypt
- from c. 1,550 BCE to 1,292 BCEEighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
- from c. 1,550 BCE to 1,070 BCEEgyptian Empire
- from c. 1,531 BCE to 1,155 BCEKassites
- c. 1,507 BCEBirth of Hatshepsut
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