What if the Sea Peoples manage to conqure Egypt. What effect would this have and what butterflies would result
What if the Sea Peoples manage to conqure Egypt. What effect would this have and what butterflies would result
Ancient Egypt had a funny way of absorbing its conquerors and making them, ah, more Egyptian, so I suspect the former is more likely.First step for this PoD : find who the sea people were.
Second Step : evaluate the effect on the late bronze age/early iron age.
You have two possibilities : the sea people become the new rulers of Egypt as a foreign dynasty supported by a new caste. Or they destroy egyptian culture and replace it, leaving them to vie for power in the middle east against the Neo-Assyrian empire and the hittites.
Ultimately it is so early in history that you can do anything.
Ancient Egypt had a funny way of absorbing its conquerors and making them, ah, more Egyptian, so I suspect the former is more likely.
Considering that we aren't even entirely sure who the Sea Peoples were (guesses range from Greeks to Iberians and Italians), who knows! We might see Egypt as we see the Hittite Empire and vice versa.
The Delta would probably be divided up between the tribes, who might expand outward, but will likely fight between each other. How long it takes for Egyptian power to rebound is really hard to guess, but I suspect it wouldn't take more than a century or two before they are able to reassert their authority.
But such an event so early will surly jumble things up, and untold butterflies will be unleashed.