11th Dynasty

The 11th Dynasty was a dynasty of the First Intermediate Period, and the dynasty of the Exodus. This dynasty followed the 7th and 8th Dynasties, ruled concurrently with the 9th and 10th Dynasties, and was followed by the 13th and 14th Dynasties. It lasted from 1571 to 1446 B.C., or 125 years. The occupants of this dynasty were Mentuhotep I, Intef I, Intef II, Intef III, Mentuhotep II, and Mentuhotep III.

The dynasty began around 1575 B.C., when power started to centralize around Thebes, where Mentuhotep I was ruling. However, it would not officially begin until his successor Intef I conqered most of Upper Egypt during his reign. The territory of this dynasty would continue to increase under Intef II and III, until it encompassed even parts of Lower Egypt.

This expansion was seen as aggression towards the 9th and 10th Dynasties, which retaliated and began a civil war in the fourteenth year of Mentuhotep II (1496 B.C.). He managed to unify Egypt under his dynasty in his thirty-ninth year (1471 B.C.).

However, his successor Mentuhotep III would undo all this work. In 1446 B.C., and Israelite named Moses came to Egypt and demanded that his brethren be freed from their enslavement. Mentuhotep refused, but divine intervention led to ten disastrous plagues that fractured Egypt again. When Mentuhotep died the same year, Egypt was thrown into chaos, beginning the 13th and 14th Dynasties.

The evidence for the revised history can be found at Displaced Dynasties. Evidence regarding this dynasty specifically can be found here.