The Atlantean Hegemony

The Conquest of Egypt and Domination of the Mediterranean

In the previous chapters of Atlantis, I looked at the likelihood that the Atlantean continent described by Plato was the territory of Sidon, the son of Canaan, remembered by the Greeks as the god Poseidon whose ten sons colonized the Altiplano of South America.

When the Egyptian priests told Solon the story of Atlantis, they used Atlantis as a proxy to represent a larger coalition of Canaanite and Abrahamic tribes. Members of that coalition included the Sidonians, Hittites, Hyksos Shepherds, Gutians, Semitic Amorites, Kassites, Midianites, and Amalekites. While the Sidonians specialized in shipbuilding and trade, the Semitic coalition members were tent-dwelling shepherd cultures descended from Abraham. Being exotic and far away, calling it Atlantis made the story far more interesting, even if it is unlikely that the Atlanteans contributed anything more than a symbolic military force to the conflict.

The Israelite Exodus from Egypt in 1491 BC was part of a chain of events that set the stage for Atlantean Hegemony. The wealthiest tribe from the Outer Continent was later credited with conquering and ruling Middle Earth, which is to say, the land around the Mediterranean Sea. In reality, however, the majority of any fighting was done by the local tribes of the Hyksos Shepherds.