Kerma Kingdom Develops and Dominates Lower Nubia
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- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution, Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Kings, Queens, Kingdoms, Monarchy, Prehistoric Humans
- Curriculum: African History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Egypt
- Date: c. 2200-1500
Article abstract: Following the collapse of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt, Kerma controlled all of Upper and Lower Nubia. The Classic Kerma culture ended roughly when the Hyksos were defeated, and Kerma culture vanished during the political reorganization of Nubia under Thutmose I in the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Summary of Event
The site of Kerma—near the Third Cataract of the Nile in the Dongola Reach area of the modern Sudan—is an area of atypically broad cultivation for the Nubian Nile Valley. Although some believe the ancient Nubian kingdoms of Wawat,...
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