The culture of Avaris, which has become…
1533 BCE to 1522 BCE
The culture of Avaris, which has become a huge city, is overwhelmingly Canaanite by the time of Egypt's Fifteenth Dynasty, as the reign of Hyksos kings is known, evincing a long and gradual development of Canaanite power in the delta, and a peaceful takeover of power there.
The Hyksos traditionally also form the sixteenth dynasty, although those rulers are probably only vassals of the fifteenth dynasty kings.
Avaris, which becomes the Hyksos capital about 1530, is sacked nine years later by Ahmose, the victorious founder of the native Eighteenth Dynasty who completes the war of liberation begun by his kinsman Kamose.
Having expelled the Hyksos, Ahmose institutes the New Kingdom policy of conquest in Palestine and Syria.
The once-great Delta city of Avaris fades into obscurity, and the towns of Canaan are on the defensive.