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Ur-Kassdim the city from which Terah and later of his son Abram-Abraham immigrated to Canaan is identified with Urkesh the capital of the Hurrian kingdom in northeastern Syria. The reason for this immigration was a period of dryness, which had affected the Middle East, starting around 2300 B.C. and reaching its peak around 1800 B.C. The wave of the immigrants also conquered a few of the Canaanite city-kingdoms and turned them to fortified cities. This climatic crisis led to the invasion of Egypt by the Hyksos, who gained control over northern Egypt. The immigration to Egypt was because of its prosperity due to the fact that the sources of the Nile are in tropical and sub-tropical Africa.
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Issar, A.S. (2014). From Shem the Son of Noah to Abraham Son of Terah. In: Strike the Rock and There Shall Come Water. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01937-6_8
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