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294920560
APP
2002-02-12
INP
2002-02-12
STA
Approved
UPD
2012-07-20
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Kush polity
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1
MIS
HR. The region around the first cataract of the River Nile, called Nubia, was conquered and colonized by Egypt in the fourth millennium BC. Consequently Egyptian civilization diffused southward and a new African kingdom was built up in the floodplain around the Nile's third cataract: the Kush. The capital city was Kerma and it served as the major trading centre for goods travelling north from the southern regions of Africa.
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294920560
UDC
340.141.1Kush 340.141.1Meroe
SN
ca. 860 BC-AD 325. Capital: Meroe.
MRF
321Kush
UF
Cush Kingdom
Kush Kingdom
Meroe Kingdom
Meroitic Kingdom
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