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About the Kingdom of Nubia in the Continent of Africa

 

>>>>  Nubian civilization pre – dates that of the Egyptian as we all know . The earliest artefacts that were found in this region date to around 300,000  years ago , possibly earlier. Kemet and Nubia were closely linked from around 6000 years ago . Early pottery indicates that the Nubians were capable of making very thin , high quality bowls and jars from 7000 years ago ; these skills were taken to Egypt as the Black origin  people moved northwards . It is remembered that The Kingdom of Kush /or sometimes written as Cush  /kʊʃ, kʌʃ/ ) –   was an ancient  African Kingdom of the Blacks situated on the confluences of the Blue Nile , White Nile , and the River Atbarain what is now the Republic of Sudan recently divided into two States by Great Britain and United States of America as South and North Sudan States in 2011 <<<< .

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The Kushite era of rule in Nubia was established after the Bronze Age collapse and the disintegration of the New Kingdom of Egypt , it was centered at Napata in its early phase . After King Kashta  ( the Kushite ) invaded Egypt in the 8th century BC , the Kushite Emperors ruled as Pharaohs of the Twenty fifth dynasty of Egypt for a century , until they were expelled by the Assyrians under the rule of Esarhaddon . 

During Classical antiquity , the Kushite imperial capital was at Meroe . In early Greek geography , the Meroitic Kingdom was known as Ethiopia . The Kushite Kingdom with its capital at Meroe persisted until the 4th century AD , when it weakened and disintegrated due to internal rebellion .

By the 1st century AD , the Kushite capital had been captured by the Beja Dynasty , who tried to revive the empire . The Kushite capital was eventually captured and burnt to the ground by the Kingdom of Axum  .  More is said still in this book about  the  Axumites , Nubians and Ladoans  anyway to find out about them  .

 - In fact Nubia was originally called or known also as  " Ta Sety " ,  the Land of the Bow . The Nubians were skilled warriors , famous also for their wrestling .

The word Nubian comes from the Ancient Egyptian word ' nbt ' , meaning gold .

The Nubians controlled the gold mines and were often shown in Tomb paintings bringing gold as an offering . Geographically, Nubia is defined as the Land between Dongola in northern Sudan and Aswan in southern Egypt . This region is home to People who are linked through dialects that belong to a distinct Language that connects them linguistically to the Ancient Nubian language , but who are culturally diverse now from each other and from the past .

Nubians are divided into three main groups : the Danaqla and Mahas in Sudan and the Sikurta around Aswan in Egypt . Nubian Language , like Ancient Egyptian Language , belongs to the African Language family . Idem , all Lado Languages in Sudan Central Africa like all the rest belong to the African Family .

Modern Nubian culture lately was affected by the building of the Aswan dam in the 1960's . This dam prevented the annual flooding of the river Nile but also meant that a huge lake was formed behind it . This lake flooded many ancient sites and modern Nubian communities . Some temples such as Abu Simbal , Kalabsha and Philae , were moved block by block in order to save them . However , many old Nubian settlements and people's homes were lost then -  .

                                  

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Origin  of  the  Name Africa :

 

The Name Africa came into the European Western use through  the  Romans , who infact used the Name : the Name Africa Terra ----  ''  Land  of  the  Afri – plural or Afer as singular  ''  which was meant for describing the  Black Peoples or the Moors of the Northern part of the Continent of Africa which was considered by them as the Province then under Roman Empire with its Capital Carthage – which actually corresponds to the Modern – day Tunisia in their so called Africa – Land of the Afri . The origin , meaning of the word Afer comes from the Phoenician word Afar which inturn means Dust .

The Phoenicians described '' Afri '' referring to Tribe – probably was referring to the '' Black – Berber Tribes '' who were living , residing or dwelt in North Africa by then in the Carthage  Area . This word became so much used by the Greeks in their Greek Language versions of  the word  Aphrike , meaning without  Cold . The same word in  Latin  Aprica , meaning  Sunny .

Later on , the  Historian  Leo Africanus  ( 1495 – 1554 )  attributed  the  Origin to the Greek word  Phrike – meaning  a  Land free of  Cold and Horror . But we get to note the name of the change of sound from  '' ph  to  f  ''  in Greek is datable to about the first century , so this can not be the origin of the Name .

Egypt , as we call it today in  English  Language , was considered as part of the Continent of  Asia by the Ancient Greeks and first assigned to becoming part of their designed name  Africa by the  Geographer  Ptolemy ( 85 – 165 AD ) , who accepted  the Egyptian –  Alexandria  as the  Prime Meridian and made the isthmus of  Suez and the Red Sea as the  Boundary between  Asian and  African Continents . So the White Western Europeans including the  pretending to be called White Arabs later on came to understand the real extent of the African Continent and the idea  of  Africa expanded or continued to expand with their knowledge only about the  African People and their Lands –  meaning :  ''  No more for the the rest of the World to know of and really about the African People and of  their Cultural  Heritage  '' .

Okuonzi 

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