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Group: Holy, or Catholic, League, the (French)
People: Gerolamo Cardano
Topic: Russo-Polish War of 1654-67
Location: Karlsruhe Baden-Württemberg Germany

Asian nomads called Hyksos invade Egypt around …

Years: 1773BCE - 1630BCE

Asian nomads called Hyksos invade Egypt around 1720 BCE, ending the Middle Kingdom.

Links with Kush are severed, and forts along the Nile are destroyed.

A culturally distinct indigenous kingdom emerges at Kerma, near present-day Dongola, to fill the vacuum left by the Egyptian withdrawal.