ABSTRACT

The liberation of the land was due to the Theban princes. Upper Egypt had paid tribute to the Hyksos of Avaris with­ out having been occupied by them in a permanent manner. The princes of Thebes, grouped in the XVIIth Dynasty, had never ceased to maintain resistance against the Asiatics; they soon initiated the war of independence. As a result of circumstances which escape us, the dominion of the shepherds was greatly weakened at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The Thebans were quick to seize the opportunity for intervention. Some episodes of the contest are known to us.