Jan 1, 2010

Salem on History | 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.

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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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Salem on History | Kerma Kingdom Develops and Dominates Lower Nubia

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