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Kush
Kush and other African Kingdoms
Question | Answer |
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A region of Africa that is south of Egypt? | Nubia |
What similarities are there between Nubia and Egypt? | Egypt and Nubia were divided into an upper and lower half and people lived next to the Nile River. |
Difference between Egypt and Nubia? | Nubia had a climate that provided greater moisture. |
A powerful ancient kingdom of Nubia? | Kush |
A Kushite king who defeated the Libyans, United Egypt and Kush, and became Pharaoh of Egypt. | Piankhi |
How Nubia influenced Egypt? | Nubian monarchy (king) became the Egyptian Pharaoh. |
How did Egypt influence Nubia? | art, architecture, gods, language, clothing, and pyramids |
Capital of Kush during the first time period? | Napata |
Capital of Kush during the second time period? | Meroe |
Kushite ruler who fought against the Assyrians? | Taharqa |
What was important about Meroe? | It had access to iron and gold. |
Kingdom that developed on the Horn of Africa? | Aksum |
Why was Aksum a good location? | It had access to trade to the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, and Nile River. |
A city on the Red Sea and was a main trading port of Aksum? | Adulis |
King of Aksum who made Christianity the official religion? | Ezana |
What were three achievements of the kingdom of Aksum? | Terraced farming, Pillars, and written language Ge'ez |
What makes up 40% of the African continent? | savannahs |
Early iron producing culture of West Africa | Nok |
Early culture of west Africa that eventually migrated to Central and Southern Africa? | Bantu |
Savannah | flat, grassy, treeless plains |
griot | storyteller |
desertification | expansion of dry desertlike conditions into fertile areas. |
The migration that took thousands of years? | Bantu migration |
How the Bantu and Nok cultures were different? | Bantu used iron for farming and the Nok used iron for tools they traded |