Examples of Nubia in the following topics:
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Nubia and Ancient Culture
- Nubia was a region along the Nile River.
- Nubia consisted of two major regions along the Nile River, from Aswan to Khartoum.
- Upper Nubia sat between the Second and Sixth Cataracts of the Nile (modern-day central Sudan), and Lower Nubia sat between the First and Second Cataracts (modern-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan).
- Nubia and Ancient Egypt had periods of both peace and war.
- Nubia was first mentioned by ancient Egyptian trading accounts in 2300 BCE.
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Nubia
- Nubia is a region along the Nile river located in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
- During the New Kingdom of Egypt, Nubia (Kush) was an Egyptian colony, from the 16th century BCE.
- Alara, a King of Kush who is the first recorded prince of Nubia, founded the Napatan, or Twenty-fifth, Kushite dynasty at Napata in Nubia, now the Sudan.
- Tantamani was chased back to Nubia, and never threatened the Assyrian Empire again.
- Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom, Julie Anderson and Salah Ahmed (2003), Dicovery Channel
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Ancient Egyptian Trade
- Egyptians during this period also imported obsidian from Ethiopia, gold and incense from Nubia in the south, oil jugs from Palestine, and other goods from the oases of the western desert and the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean.
- This route passed through Kharga in the south and Asyut in the north, and was a major route between Nubia and Egypt.
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The Middle Kingdom
- Toward the end of the First Intermediate Period, Mentuhotep II and his successors unified Egypt under a single rule, and commanded such faraway locations as Nubia and the Sinai.
- Senusret III was a warrior-king, and launched a series of brutal campaigns in Nubia.
- The strongest king of this period, Neferhotep I, ruled for 11 years, maintained effective control of Upper Egypt, Nubia, and the Delta, and was even recognized as the suzerain of the ruler of Byblos.
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Tutankhamun and Ramses II
- The early part of his reign focused on architectural building projects throughout Egypt and Nubia.
- He covered the land from the Delta to Nubia with buildings in a way no king before him had done, and built on a monumental scale to ensure that his legacy would survive over time.
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Ancient Africa
- Copper objects from Egypt, North Africa, Nubia and Ethiopia dating from around 500 BCE have been excavated in West Africa, suggesting that trans-Saharan trade networks had been established by this date.
- Egyptian influence reached deeply into modern Libya, north to Crete and Canaan, and south to the kingdoms of Aksum and Nubia.
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The Old Kingdom
- He also sent his military into Sinai, Nubia and Libya, and began to trade with Lebanon for cedar.
- During this period, there were military expeditions into Canaan and Nubia, spreading Egyptian influence along the Nile into modern-day Sudan.
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The Third Intermediate Period
- Nubia had already extended its influence into the Egyptian city of Thebes around 752 BCE, when the Nubian ruler Kashta coerced Shepenupet into adopting his own daughter Amenirdis as her successor.
- Twenty years later, around 732 BCE, these machinations bore fruit for Nubia when Kashta's successor Piye marched north in his Year 20 campaign into Egypt, and defeated the combined might of the native Egyptian rulers.
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Architecture of the Middle Kingdom
- In his sixth year, he re-dredged an Old Kingdom canal around the first cataract to facilitate travel to upper Nubia, using this to launch a series of brutal campaigns.
- After his victories, Senusret III built a series of massive forts throughout the country to establish the formal boundary between Egyptian conquests and unconquered Nubia.
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The Achaemenid Empire
- After his death in 530 BCE, Cyrus was succeeded by his son Cambyses II, who conquered Egypt, Nubia, and Cyrenaica in 525 BCE; he died in 522 BCE during a revolt.