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Ancient Canaan's Relative Peace In Ancient Egypt
Ancient Canaan was not a “No-Man’s” but rather an “Any-Man’s” land. Situated between the Nile River Valley and the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley it served as common ground for the movements (socioeconomic and military) of other important and powerful civilizations. Its fate, repeatedly influenced by that of the Egyptians, rose and fell with the events of their neighbors. The relative peace in Egypt during the Old Kingdom era (2575-2100 B.C.E) left Canaan to be a loose quiet place with locally based tribes regulating sparsely settled areas. Dynastic struggles within Egypt during the First Intermediate Period and threats from other nations caused conflict and social discord there. The resulting political and military movements exerted a new

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