What? They're just regular chariots? Stan, why are you always killing my dreams? One group, the Hyksos, were able to conquer all of Egypt, but rather than, like, destroying Egyptian culture, they just relaxed like the Nile and dissimulated into the Egyptians. And the Egyptians adopted their military technology, and then the Egyptians destroyed the Hyksos and expelled them from Egypt. And then by 1550 BCE, there was again an Egyptian pharaoh, Ammosis, whose name only sounds like an STD. Anyway, after all this conquering and being conquered, Egypt eventually emerged from its geographically imposed isolationism and... Can we cue the New Kingdom graphic?