Nubia

Examples of Nubia in the following topics:

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Rise of Egyptian Civilization

  • Halfan culture arose along the Nile Valley of Egypt and in Nubia between 18,000 and 15,000 BCE.

• Hatshepsut

  • She also sent raiding expeditions to Byblos and Sinai, and may have led military campaigns against Nubia and Canaan.

• Kingdom of Aksum

  • Aksum's access to both the Red Sea and the Upper Nile enabled its strong navy to profit in trade between various African (Nubia), Arabian (Yemen), and Indian states.