Nubians

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What do you people know about the Nubians?

 

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Nubia


(n´b) (KEY) , ancient state of NE Africa. At the height of its political power Nubia extended, from north to south, from the First Cataract of the Nile (near Aswan, Egypt) to Khartoum, in Sudan. It early came under the influence of the pharaohs, and in the 20th cent. B.C. Seti I completed the occupation of the area. Many centuries later Egypt itself was ruled (8th and 7th cent. B.C.) by conquering Nubians of the Cush (Kush) kingdom. Later, after the Assyrians expelled (c.667 B.C.) Tirhakah from Egypt, the Cushite capital was moved (c.530) from Napata to Meroë. Meroë fell (c.350) to the Ethiopians and was abandoned. The region then came under the sway of the Nobatae, an ethnic group that mixed with the indigenous stock and formed a powerful kingdom with its capital at Dongola. The kingdom 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. Nubia was then broken up into many petty states. Muhammad Ali of Egypt conquered (1820–22) Nubia, and in the late 19th cent. much of the area was held by supporters of the Mahdi. 1
See A. J. Arkell, A History of the Sudan to A.D. 1821 (1955).

From the Colombian Encyclopedia (http://www.bartleby.com/65/)

 

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Ok ill bite, what do want to know?

Hanny

 

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Thank You.I want to know how the kingdom came about,why they fell,etc.

 

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Well, I had a major discussion with someone on another message board about Nubia. Here's what little I remember after the dust settled:

Nubia and Egypt came into existence at pretty much the same time. Nubian legend has it, that they came from a mountainous region in... was it East Africa? Not surprisingly the two nations were engaged in a number of wars as Pharaonic Egypt increased its sphere of influence. At one point Egypt conquored Nubia and the whole nation became very influenced by Egypt culture. Later Lady Luck changed sides, and Nubia was able to conquor Egypt and put their own Pharaos on the Egyptian throne.

I don't know that much about the fate of Nubia after the Romans came, but I'm sure someone else does.

Regards,

EoE

 

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http://www.crystalinks.com/ancient.html

Hanny

 

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Originally posted by Hannibal Barca
http://www.crystalinks.com/ancient.html

Hanny

Nice Link!Thanks!