---Nubia/ Kush---

#LEADER LIST (Thamis)

King Taharqa
Piye
Alara
Kashta
Tanuetamani

#CITY LIST (Piyankhi)

Mero
Kerma
Napata
Dongola
Aniba
Toshka
Buhen
Semna
Ballana
Irtjet
Wawat
Zatju
Medja
Kaau
Sha'at
Iryshek
Tua
Imana'a
Ruket
Awshek
Webetsepat
Tjemehu
Kush-Yam
Nubadae
Mirgissa
Korosko
Premnis
Dakka
Hieraskaminos
Makuria
Nobatia
Alodia
Sesebi
Kawa
Soleb
Kumma
Faras
Beit el-Wali
Gerf Hussein
Tombos
Sai
Amara
Uronati
Dorginarti
Kot
Quban
Ikkur
Gebel Barkal
Gem Atom
Sanr


#CIVILOPEDIA ENTRY (Thamis)

#RACE_NUBIANS
^The Nubians (Kush) are $LINK<religious and commercial=GCON_Strengths>. 
^They build $LINK<???> and $LINK<???>.
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The first African civilization after Egypt was built by an Egyptianized people who lived between the Nile River's
first and third cataracts and spoke Nilo-Saharan languages. This region around the first cataract, called Nubia,
had been conquered and colonized by Egypt in the fourth millenium BC. Because of this, Egyptian civilization 
diffused southward and a new African kingdom was built up in the floodplain around the Nile's third cataract: the
Kush. Their capital city was Kerma and it served as the major trading center for goods travelling north from the
southern regions of Africa. 
^
Kush attained its greatest power and cultural energy between 1700 and 1500 BC during the Third Intermediate period
in Egypt. The domination of Egypt by the Hyksos allowed Kush to come out from under the hegemony of Egypt and
flower as a culture; this period ended, however, when the New Kingdom kings, having thrown the Hyksos out of Egypt,
reconquered Kush and brought it under Egyptian colonial rule. 
#DESC_RACE_NUBIANS
^
However, when the New Kingdom collapsed in 1000 BC, Kush again arose as a major power by conquering all of Nubia.
The conquest of upper Nubia, which had been in the hands of the Egyptians since the fourth millenium, gave to Kush
wealthy gold mines. 
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Following the reassertion of Kushite independence in 1000 BC, the Kushites moved their capital city farther up the
Nile to Napata. The Kushites by and large considered themselves to be Egyptians and the proper inheritors of the
pharoanic titles and tradition. They organized their society along Egyptian lines, assumed all the Egyptian royal
titles, and their architecture and art was based on Egyptian architectural and artistic models. Their pyramids 
were smaller and steeper and they introduced other innovations as well, but the Napatan culture does not on the 
surface appear much different than Egyptian culture. 
^
The Kushites even invaded and conquered Egypt in a magnificent irony of history. The Napatan kings formed the 
twenty-fifth pharaonic dyansty in the eighth century; this dynasty came to an end with the Assyrian invasion of 
Egypt in the seventh century BC. 
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- http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/KUSH.HTM