Khammurabi, the Amraphel of the Book of Genesis, calls himself king of the country of the Amorites as well as of Babylon, and his great-grandson does the same.

At a later date Babylonia itself was conquered by a foreign line of kings, and Canaan recovered its independence.

But this was of no long duration.

Thothmes III., of the Eighteenth Egyptian dynasty (B.C.

1503-1449), made it a province of Egypt, and the Amorites were governed by Egyptian prefects and commissioners.