First Great Expansion of Berber Peoples Across North Africa
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Barbarians, Nomads, Prehistoric Humans
- Curriculum: African History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Egypt, Libya
- Date: c. 2300-c. 2000
Article abstract: The Berber tribes, inhabitants of the increasingly arid Sahara to the west of the Nile Valley whom the Egyptians grouped under the ethnonym Tjemehou, began to expand into the Nubian Nile Valley during the late Old Kingdom period.
Summary of Event
Between 6000 and 2000 b.c.e., pastoralism developed in the eastern Sahara. At sites such as Nabta Playa and at other more permanently watered regions of the eastern Sahara, cultures in close contact with the Nile Valley developed, but there is at this time no certain evidence of Berber...
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