What did Cush provide in trade with the Egyptians?
Ivory, Incense hides, and Carnelian.
100
What countries did the Arabs invade/try to invade?
Tripoli, Nubia, Sindh, etc.
100
Muslims maintained united the individual believer, the state, and the _____ _____ _____ _____.
Society under God's will.
100
Who is buried in Meroe, and what is the city the capital of?
Nubian Pharaohs; Cush.
100
_______ _______ ________ coincided with the decline of the Nubian Christian Church.
Hint: (Religion)
Expansion of Islam.
200
What ended the Middle Kingdom?
The invasion of Egypt by Asian Nomads.
200
This was signed with agreements of "as long as Arabs ruled Egypt, there was peace in Nubia."
A treaty.
200
Within a generation of Muhammad’s death, Islam was carried North and East from _______ into ______ ______.
Arabia; North Africa.
200
After the Romans invaded, this group captured and destroyed the city of Meroe.
Abyssinian State; present day Ethiopia.
200
How many states emerged as the political and cultural heirs of the Meroitic Kingdom?
3
Nobatia
Muqurra (centered at Dunqulah)
Alwa
300
Assyrians invaded Egypt, the last Cushite pharaoh, __________ withdrew and returned the dynasty to Napata where it continued to rule Cush.
Taharqa
300
Arabization of the _______ _______ was a gradual process over a 1,000 year period.
Nile Valley
300
Who died in 632 A.D.?
Prophet Muhammad
300
The crown is passed from _______ to _______ and sometimes from _______ to _______
Brother to brother; Father to son.
300
What did the Christian Nubian Kingdom achieve?
Peek of prosperity and military power.
400
What were the Asian Nomads called?
Hyksos
400
What did trade mean to the Arabs?
Not submission, but 'friendship' for them to be privileged in Nubia.
400
Islam brought what to Africa?
Political unity, Economic growth, and Education development.
400
What is the 'succession system' based on?
Who is deemed worthy, not hereditary.
400
This empress sent a missionary to Nobatia where the preaching of gospel began in 540 A.D.
Byzantine Empress Theodora
500
Which Cushite king conquered Upper Egypt and became ruler of Thebes until 740 B.C.?
Kashta
500
The treaty also ensued that both parties would have an annual exchange tribute as a goodwill symbol; Nubians exchanged _______ and Arabs exchanged _______.
Slaves; Grain.
500
Changed the ______ _______ and divided the country into ______ and _______.
Sudanese Society; North and South.
500
What caused the demise of Meroe?
Southern invasion from the Romans in 23 B.C
The Romans later left Meroe to Egypt because it was "too poor to colonize."