They learned to have a better navy, because they hired Greek captains to help them become better sailors since their sailors were pretty bad. Once they boarded the enemy then they engaged had-to-hand combat.
The Hyksos conquered Egpyt from the Middle Kingdom.
1991. Although its fall lapsed somewhat into 1992, as well.
The Government's role in building and maintaining the nation's infrastructure would be that they have control of what we do as a first world country and making sure that we don't go bankrupt, or run ourselves into the ground. The federal government should be the main source of the funding, however if it's only a state problem than it would be the state and local funds.