State · 1650 – 1550 BCE

Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt

A state of 1650 – 1550 BCE — 100 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt. It was followed by Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 100 years; 1650 BCE – 1550 BCE
Most ground: 168,800 km²; in 1600 BCE

Map: Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt in 1600 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt in 1600 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 168,800 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt in 1650 BCE, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt in 1600 BCE, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt · follows · 1786 – 1600 BCE

After it

Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt · followed by · 1650 – 1580 BCE

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

87,600 km² in 1650 BCE, 168,800 km² in 1550 BCE; at its largest 168,800 km² in 1600 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood100 years
stood longer than 47% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held168,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 55% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 3 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 100

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1660 BCE – 1540 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1600 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q728479 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.