World History › Section G · The ancient Americas and Africa › Topic G.6
The Kingdom of Kush
South of Egypt, along the cataracts of the Nile, Nubian kingdoms rose that traded with Egypt, fought it, were conquered by it, and once ruled it. This topic follows Kush from Kerma to Napata and Meroe, a story of more than two thousand years.
In this topic
- Nubia and the cataracts
- Kerma, the first kingdom
- Worked example: an intercepted letter
- Egyptian rule and the rise of Napata
- Piye and the Kushite pharaohs
- Worked example: why the capital moved south
- Meroe: iron, trade and pyramids
- Script, gods and the kandakes
- Kush and Rome
- Decline and the end of Kush
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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