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ANCIENT EGYPTand NUBIA
ANCIENT EGYPTand NUBIA
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Ancient Nubia• Kush, the Egyptian
name for ancient Nubia, was the site of a highly advanced, ancient black African civilization that rivaled ancient Egypt in wealth, power and cultural development.
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Kerma• The first capital of Kush
lay at Kerma just south of the Third Cataract of the Nile.
• Here dwelt powerful and wealthy black kings who controlled the trade routes connecting central Africa with ancient Egypt.
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Egypt Conquers Kush• The Egyptians, who had
few natural resources of their own, sought the precious, exotic products of central Africa to satisfy the demands of their luxury-loving populace.
• By about 1500 B.C., the Egyptians, feeling threatened by the Nubian kings, invaded Kush and conquered it.
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Gold from Nubia• Model coffin of Tutankhamun,
probably made from Nubian gold. Found in his tomb at Thebes. Egypt, Dynasty 18, ca. 1348-1338 BCE.
• For the next four centuries, the Egyptians exploited Kush as a colony.
• Egypt's wealth in gold came from the desert mines of Kush. The Egyptian word for gold is nub, which is thought by some to be the origin of the name Nubia.
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Kush Conquers Egypt, 730 BC• Around 730 B.C.,
Kush's warrior hordes turned the tables on a weakened Egypt and conquered it.
• This event established the black Pharaohs from Kush.
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Piankhi
• Piankhi, (d. 721 BC) was a Kushite king and founder of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt.
• He ruled Egypt from the city of Napata, located deep in Nubia.
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Taharka• Taharqa, a son and
third successor of King Piankhi, was the greatest of the Nubian pharaohs.
• He ordered many construction projects, and built or renewed many fine temples in Egypt. The early years of his reign were very prosperous.
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25th Dynasty of EgyptTwenty-Fifth Dynasty
Name Dates
Alara 780-760
Kashta –
Piankhi c. 752 BC – 721 BC
Shabaka 721 BC – 707 BC
Shebitku 707 BC – 690 BC
Taharqa 690 – 664 BC
Tantamani 664 – 656 BC (died 653 BC)
• Black Pharoahs ruled an Egyptian-Nubian empire that extended from the Medi-terranean to the confluence of the Blue and White Niles for sixty years.
• Historians would count their reign as Egypt's 25th Dynasty.
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Christian Nubia
• Converted to Christianity in the 6th century A.D., Nubia united with Ethiopia but fell to the Muslims in the 14th century.
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Nubia
• Muhammad Ahmad"El Mahdi“ of Sudan
• Nubia was converted to Christianity in the 6th cent. A.D.
• Joined with the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, it long resisted Muslim encroachment, but in the 14th cent. it finally collapsed.
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Ancient Egypt
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Ancient EgyptAncient Egypt
• Ancient Egypt was a civilization in eastern North Africa concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River that reached its greatest extent in the second millennium BC during the New Kingdom.
• Ancient Egypt was a civilization in eastern North Africa concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River that reached its greatest extent in the second millennium BC during the New Kingdom.
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Old Kingdom (2700 B.C.–2184 B.C.)
• The Old Kingdom (Dynasties 3 to 6) was a period of great prosperity and innovation whose most memorable feature was surely the pyramid.
• Pyramids of Giza
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New Kingdom (1570 B.C.–1070 B.C.)
• Temple of Ramses II • Dynasty 18 through Dynasty 20, known as the New Kingdom, witnessed a time of international prestige and prosperity for Egypt.
• The kings of this period conducted extensive military, diplomatic and trade relations with Nubians as far south as the Fourth Cataract in Nubia.
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Graeco-Roman Period (332 B.C.–A.D. 395)
• Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 B.C., thus ending unwanted Persian rule. The Egyptians willfully accepted him as pharaoh because he adopted the Egyptian kingship and religion.
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Byzantine Period (A.D. 395-A.D. 641)
• Remains of Coptic Church • During the fourth and the fifth centuries A.D., Egyptians converted to Christianity.