Was the Exodus natural or supernatural, fact or fiction?

[Confused Ape]

You can't have a kingdom with just a ruling class, though,

Oh, sure you can. In fact, in antiquity it seems to be the norm. Evidence suggests that the Etruscans were little more than a warrior class who descended on Central Italy an replaced the ruling class with themselves. They left the peasants alone.

Which means that the Etruscans' equivalent of a kingdom didn't just have an Etruscan ruling class - it had peasants as well otherwise the Etruscans would have had to do all the mundane work themselves. As I said in my previous post - so the rest of the population did all the work required to keep a kingdom running. It's likely that some of the Hyksos kingdom's residents were native Egyptians while others were Habiru who had wandered in from various places and settled down.

I said "it was likely" because we don't have a census giving us details of which ethnic group was doing what under Hyksos rule. A lot of the peasants were likely to have ancestors going back to Egypt's dim and distant past while some peasants could have been descended from other ethnic groups who had wandered in at various times.