Babylon and Persia
The Babylonians conquer Egypt in 605BC. I would be difficult to control Egypt with the Israelites there. The Israelites will fight for the land that God had given them. It would be a simple matter to control the slaves of Egypt, for they know they are slaves… but the Israelites believe they are free and will cause rebellions.
Solution …in 586 BC the priest and royal families are moved to Babylon where they can keep an eye on them.
539 BC, the Persians, conquer Babylon. The Persians under Cyrus the Great have a more tolerant the policy and return the Israelites to Canaan. The Persia religion is that of Ahuramazda the people and lands of civilization of Mitanni, where the Semitic peoples of the Hyskos had come from. The land that is next to Mount Ararat where Noah's ship landed. Where Abraham people came through on their way to Egypt. The Persians are now the allies of the Israelites and the great Persian empire now stretches from Africa to India.
The kingdom of Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians in K2, (the Assyrians were the forerunners of the Persians). It was at this time that ten tribes of Israel are lost. Would it no be reasonable that these tribes were not lost but assimilated into the Assyrian Empire. Thus making the two remaining tribes loyal to Egypt, and the others the allies of the Assyrians.
It is now 500 years before Christ. The Persians now rule over Babylon to the south, and Egypt to the West... and they permit the Israelites to return to their promised land. Why would the Persians allow the Israelites to return to Israel?
457 BCE Ezra comes from Babylon and re-introduces Judaism to the Isrealites. Because the particular religion of the Jews is wonderful for ruling a territory. The bible is a war manual, with spiritual similarities to both the Egyptian and Persian belief.
From a military or diplomatic perspective they felt they could rule the lands of Egypt with their alliance. The Persians can have Judea control Egypt. The Priests and Kings of the Israelites have lived in Babylonian captivity for over 50 years. In a sense the Kings and priests of the Jews have been liberated by the Persians. Those who return to control the land of Israel would remain well connected to the peoples back in Persia and the former Babylon. For the Persians to control the new lands of both Egypt and Babylon the Jews are the perfect answer.
The king of Persia Cyrus, sets the stage to rebuild the temple and places the kings of David back in control.
(535 to 516 rebuilding of the temple)
Of course the Greeks and Macedonians, who are the arch enemies of the Persians, hate this.
The Israelites that were taken to Babylon were not just any Israelites, they are the ones that knew the truth. They would have been in fact part of the Egyptian upper class. The wise powerful ruling class always weds with each other. They are the ones that rule the lower classes through ignorance, with the power of the "reality" that can be spun.
The Israelites had been in Babylon for 50 years and are well established. About 10% come back to take their kingdom and to once again control the nation of Israel.
Pause for a moment and feel the times these were. It is 500 BC, Greece is a people that comes in and out of Persian control. Macedonia, where Alexander the Great would come from, were barbarians. Rome has just been founded. 150 years later Aristotle will come from Persia to teach. Pythagoras would go to Egypt to learn the mysteries and mathematics.
Only a few Greeks had some rudimentary form of democracy. To not be a slave meant you were not part of civilization and your children would starve from time to time. To be a slave meant you would worship your master. People want to be good slaves, this is why Moses has a hard time keeping the Israelites from going back to Egypt.
Few could read, and less studied. The a few scholars would study in secret societies. Reading or writing was not common, even Aristotle disapproved of writing because it made for poor memory.
You simply believed what you were told, and that is how you were governed, through your hunger and ignorance.
Secret societies, and priesthood would be careful who they told. The Druids, the Magi, the Pythagoreans, the cult of Dionysus, Mithraism, and so on were all very exclusive secret societies.
With the Pharisees put in place in Israel, the Persians could now rule Egypt and have a military force to protect it… the Israelites. The slaves in Egypt would be ruled by the priest hood and their Pharaoh, and the Israelites would defend the border once again all governed from the top.
Remember that all this came about because of climate change. Populations are still growing, people are still migrating south.
At this point in our history you notice migrations from the north. These people are the sociological clash between Hunters and Gathers and established river based civilizations
They would come and live on the fringes… they are the barbarians to the Greeks and the sea people to the Egyptians. The people from the colder north that had migrated south are now building states in the north, in places like Macedonia and Villanova. These would be the perfect place for them to settle and trade between the northern settlements and the Persian Empire. It is here where now the climate having warmed up after the flood, their populations culturally stabilize and began to grow and prosper.
Macedonia
From northern Greece, Macedonia, would come Alexander the Great. In 325 BC his armies would conquer first the Persians and then the Egyptians.
In Egypt, Alexander fights in Gaza and but is welcomed by the Israelites in Jerusalem. He is told that Daniel's prophecy had told of a mighty Greek king that would subdue and conquer the Persian Empire.
He then enters Egypt and is welcomed. He is called the new "master of the Universe" and son of the deity of Amun at the Oracle of Siwa Oasis.
Now why is that? Why would he fight in Tyre but then be welcomed by the Israelites, as well as called God when he enters Egypt? Because Israelites would in fact be the army that is governing Egypt for the Persians now they would do the same for the Greeks. Egypt had been ruled by both the Persians, and the "Hyskos". Remember the Hyskos, the "one God", people from Mitanni, Hebrew people that the Egyptians thought they had dealt with in Exodus.
The Persians are the people of the profit Zarathustra, of the one God Ahuramazda. The Israelites also believe in one God, but that is not to say that the rulers believe the same. If all this appears strange to you think of America, we think ourselves a Christian nation, yet we know our rulers may not be.
To the Egyptian and Greek Religion...there is no greater bad than to ignore all the other Gods.
Alexander the Great, is also polytheistic, he is of the cult of Dionysus. The God's and religious traditions of the Macedonians, the Greeks and the Egyptians are much more akin that those of the Persians and Israelites.
When Alexander enters Egypt he is in fact is liberating them from the Israelites that have been working with the Persians. The Egyptian high priest hood and religion is once whole, for the Greeks have the relatively the same Gods. Of course Alexander is the liberator and as a Hero and must be God as well.
From this day, all the Pharaohs, will be Macedonian kings. They will be Greeks for 300 + years including the last Pharaoh Cleopatra.
Since all people in Egypt at this time are slaves and know only what they are told, things go back to normal. The Egyptian priesthood will support the new Macedonian rulers.
The Kings of Judea will govern their people and profit from them under the new Macedonian rule. Pharisees continue to reinforce belief to the Israelites. The Priests of the Pharaoh continue to reinforce belief to their slaves in Egypt. The warrior class of the Hebrew once again live in peace with the slave class of the Egyptians all under the world rule of the Greeks.
The Macedonians, the barbarians, have done well for themselves.They will now control all the known world up to the time of Christ.