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Historical Dictionary of Ancient Nubia (Hardcover)
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Historical Dictionary of Ancient Nubia (Hardcover)
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras
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Total price: R2,881
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This new book descends from a former combined reference book on
Ancient and Medieval Nubia but now expands and focuses primarily on
Prehistoric and Ancient times. It contextualizes the foundational
roots of human evolution in the Paleolithic and Mesolithic stone
ages and on to the Neolithic revolution built on farming and
livestock. Meanwhile, Kerma was the most ancient African states and
their relationship with dynastic Egypt. Precisely, ancient Kerma a
was a serious political, economic and military rival to Old and
Middle Kingdoms of Egypt. But in the New Kingdom the balance of
regional forces was dramatically changed with Egyptians defeating
Kerma and occupying and colonizing Kush/Nubia for 500 years. In the
11th century BCE the political unity of Egypt withered away and
after recovering from foreign exploitation, Nubians began to
reconstitute a small state at Kurru with renewed pyramid building
and then finding no Egyptian resistance, these Nubians kings
advanced on Egyptian Nubia and then on to Upper Egypt. Finally,
Nubians were able to take over all of Egypt as the pharaohs of
century-long Dynasty XXV. This so-called 'Ethiopian" dynasty had
the famed pharaohs of Piankhy, Shabaka, Shabataka, Taharka and
Tanutamun ruling for various terms, three of who are mentioned in
the Biblical Old Testament. Even when Nubians were expelled from
Egypt by foreign Assyrian invaders, they retreated to Napata to
carry on their ancient state for three more independent centuries
as Egyptian remained conquered by various foreigners for 2,500
years. Most notable of these foreign conquers of Egypt were the
Greeks (Ptolemies) and the Roman (who arrived and polytheists and
left as Christians. During this Greco-Roman period in Egypt,
Nubians strategically withdrew still further south to the Kingdom
of Meroe (from the 4th century BCEE to the 4th century CE. Meroe is
also covered in great detail as it was famed for many regnant
queens, a unique and undeciphered writing system, iron-production
and important monumental works including more pyramids than found
in Egypt, Yes, smaller and later but many more pyramids that are
still standing in several World Heritage sites in Nubia. After
Meroe began a long decline it was finally vulnerable to attack from
Christian Axum on the 4th century CE. Two murky centuries of
regional rule, known as the X-Group were to follow, but by the 6th
century Nubians recreated three Christian states that are covered
in detail in the following Historical Dictionary of Medieval
Christian Nubia and the Historical Dictionary of Sudan for Islamic
and modern times.
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