ECH 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hyksos, Horse Breeding, Composite Bow

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 3320
• Professor: Paul Robinson

Document Summary

Horse breeding (breeding to create the right type of horse) Bow-making: composite bow (the bigger the bow, the more pull it has, the more stretch it has) Hyksos conquer egypt in 1652 bc (to defeat more advanced civilizations) Inventors were pastoralists (to heard flocks and vend off predators) As people notice that the military technology is advancing, they adopt it (the spread of the chariot) note: this took hundreds of years. Hyksos had technological advantage because they had the chariot first. Paroahs kamose and ahmose led rebellion vs hyksos. Egyptions move east to create buffer zone. Egyptians win and besiege megiddo, the hyksos surrender. Chariot used as platform for firing arrows. Wouldn"t charge directly into enemy (the horses) Chariots can be herded together in certain directions and circle the enemy. Second written record of battle after megiddo. Egyptians not expecting hittite to arrive, but the egyptians ended up driving them back.