History of Ancient Egypt: Dynasties XXII & XXIII - Shoshenq I, the Canaanite Campaign and Civil War

In this episode we'll take a look at the short revival of Egypt's fortunes under the country's 22nd Dynasty, specifically during the reign of Shoshenq I (c. 945-925 BC). A rather mysterious ruler of Libyan descent, Shoshenq politically unified Egypt once again to create a strong, centralized state that brought back countrywide respect to the office of Pharaoh of Egypt. An extremely capable ruler, he's perhaps most famous outside of the world of archaeology for his military conquests in the land Canaan and, at least according to the Bible, the sack and plunder of Jerusalem.
A few decades after Shoshenq, Egypt once again became politically fragmented with a violent civil war occurring in Thebes. This lack of strong leadership may have made Egypt ripe for invasion from both the south and the east. We'll take a look at this and much more in the latest episode of Ancient Egypt, Dynasty by Dynasty.
Contents:
00:00 Introduction and Historical Context
04:28 Shoshenq I and the Conquest of Canaan
17:23 Osorkon I
19:09 Shoshenq II and Takelot II
20:21 Osorkon II and the Great Jubilee
22:05 The 23rd Dynasty and Civil War
24:44 Prince Osorkon III
25:50 Threats from Abroad
31:39 Thank You and Patrons
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Machinimas created using Total War: Rome 2 Age of Bronze mod
Sources and Suggested Reading:
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt - Toby Wilkinson
A History of Ancient Egypt - Marc Van De Mieroop
The Archaeology of Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period - James E. Benne
Ancient Records of Egypt: The Twentieth Through the Twenty-Sixth Dynasties, Vol. 4 - James Henry Breasted
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt - Ian Shaw
Chronicle of the Pharaohs - Peter A. Clayton
The Libyan Anarchy: Inscriptions from Egypt's Third Intermediate Period - Robert K. Ritner
The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt, 1100-650 BC - Kenneth Kitchen
The Seventy Great Mysteries of Ancient Egypt - Edited by Bill Manley
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt - Bill Manley
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Haha no don't that because there will be a lot of follow ups to this and other ancient Egyptian content you'll probably be interested in...thanks so much for watching!

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That's gonna be a good one... and a bit longer too. Thanks for watching!

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Thanks! I'm super excited about the CL finale... it's one of my favorite series on KZbin and honestly I'm a bit sad it's coming to an end. Can't wait though!

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Been waiting, can tell it’s worth it. Can’t wait for the 26th Dynasty and the Ptolemies

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They're in the works, thanks so much for watching!

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It's hard to be mad about the video game footage when it's actually so darn accurate.

[@HistorywithCy]

Yeah whoever created the Bronze Age mod I'm using did it with love and a lot attention to detail. It's an older mod but I personally think it's more accurate than the latest TW Pharaoh game that came out last year. Glad you liked this... there'll be more battle scenes (some of them pretty epic) coming up in future vids, especially Egyptians vs Assyrians which will be fun to create. Thanks for watching!

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My pleasure, thanks so much for continuing to tune in, means a lot!

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Idk why but every time Cy says Shoshenq, I keep thinking Shoshenq's redemption.

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Haha makes sense... he did sort of briefly redeem Egypt in terms of international prestige. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

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[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks... funny you say that as this one had a variety of music as well, some ancient sounding eastern themes with heavy metal peppered in. As always thanks for watching!

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Thanks, glad you enjoyed it...the rest of the series is in the works!

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Will do, thanks for watching!

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I can't wait for the supercut of all the dynasty videos put together when this is over.

[@HistorywithCy]

Yeah that's going to be a lot of fun to make. Along with some edits (I'll be taking out the intros and ending like "in the next episode..." etc.), I hope to have new footage from Egypt by then to add in along with any new updates/findings since the original episodes came out. It'll take a while to put together but hopefully worth it for all of you Egypt enthusiasts. Thanks for watching this series, really appreciate it!

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Watching you run through the kings list makes me emotional for some reason. Someone's entire lifespan, reduced to a single name with birth and death. And most of their lives we'll never get to know at all. It's crazy.

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Reminds me of Shelley's sonnet Ozymandias: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. Thanks for watching, appreciate it!

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Will do, thanks for watching!

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My pleasure, thank YOU for watching!

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YES!! MORE Egyptian Dynasties. We got 10 Dynasties left.

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More on the way! Working on 24 and 25 at the moment, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

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You're welcome, thanks for watching!

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Many thanks for this addition to the series. Looking forward to the next installment.

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You're welcome and thanks for watching. The next one will be D24 and 25 and will probably be one of the more interesting and intense episodes of the series, I think you'll enjoy it!

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[@darksaurian6410]

Shoshenq was mentioned in the first indiana jones movie. We're finally to the old testament. After the new kingdom is already gone. The pyramids, all those temples, the ramses statues. It was all there while they were writing that stuff. This channel has cleared up so much blurry history in my mind. I have to watch the greek and persian playlists then I'll be ready to read books. This channel the best thing that ever happened to the internet.

[@HistorywithCy]

Wow, thanks so much for the feedback and kind words, really appreciate them. There is an older Greek and Persian playlist, but I'm creating another one with the more recent content. Hope you enjoy them and thanks again for watching!

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@@HistorywithCy After I'm done watching all your videos I'm going to read all the books you list as sources. Or at least Herodotus.

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No problem, thank YOU for watching!

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Welp. Time for my whole rewatch

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Nobody tell me who wins… laisse faire I wanna be surprised so please let Cy make more. There’s a few more yet… Yaknow why no painting of Egyptian interior? We’re gonna need to find out what they did for roofs. Great video Cy.

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My lips are sealed... until the next episode. Thanks for watching these!

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Abbasids were based, Umayyads were corrupt Arab ethnocentrists

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If i'm doing the math right, was Osorkon's record of temple gifts inscription for *fifteen tons* of gold?

[@HistorywithCy]

I'm terrible at math but here's the way I'd calculate it. 15,345 deben x 91 grams/deben=1,395,395 grams or roughly 1,395.4 kg. To convert it to pounds I'd do 1,395.4 kg x 2.20462 lbs/kg=3,076 lbs. So just over 1.5 tons. Still a lot! Thanks for watching!

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Well if the statue nodded its approval then I guess it makes sense.

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"at least on papyrus" lmaoo

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Haha yeah I thought I'd add that little pun in there...glad you caught it! Thanks for watching!

[@kersebleptes1317]

Am I wrong in reckoning 15345 deben of gold (at 91g each) to be approx. 1.4 metric tons?!?

[@HistorywithCy]

Hi! No, I think it's less than that. I'm not that great at math but here's how I'd calculate it: 15,345 deben x 91 grams/deben=1,395,395 grams or roughly 1,395.4 kg. To convert it to pounds I'd do 1,395.4 kg x 2.20462 lbs/kg=3,076 lbs. This comes to just over 1.5 tons. Still a lot of gold! Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!

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The Shoshenq Redemption.

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Haha that should be the name of a biopic about his life. Thanks for watching!

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127th

[@kidmohair8151]

23 down! 10 to go...(depending on whether you count the last 2 Greek ones... but hey, the Libyan ones do, so, why not?)

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Yeah maybe slightly less since I'll be combining 24 and 25 and maybe the Achaemenids into one...haven't decided yet but yes, we'll getting to the endgame. Thanks for watching the series!

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@@HistorywithCy it's my pleasure! thank you for taking on this (if I can put it this way) monumental task.

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My pleasure, I really enjoy making these for y'all.

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Everyone loves the Shoshenq Redemption… Cy is just better by a bit than Morgan Freeman

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Maybe Cy is more like Andy… im stretching

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I would love to see such a movie made! Shoshenq redeems Egypt for a while... only to die shortly after (duh, gave away the plot!).

[@kkupsky6321]

@@HistorywithCy the pharaoh crawled through five hundred yards of filth to stand in the rain and have him brought up. Aw man. Imagine the Egyptian lady poster he had dug behind hahaha. Shoshenq went thru it and even got a library for us all. Beer on the roof. Shoshenq Dufresne…

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Piye is coming!!

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Yup, working on the vid for D24 and 25...it'll be a good one! Thanks for watching!

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Who was Pharoah? Who was NOT Pharaoh? 🤭

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Somebody knows their Sumerian King List! Haha how cool would it be if they found a papyrus with an Egyptian scribe writing something similar about one of the Intermediate periods?! As always thanks so much for watching, always appreciate it!

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useless Dynasties

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Bring on the 25th!

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It's coming up!