Vocabulary & People
Locations
Nubia
Aksum
Miscellaneous
100

The process of heating mineral-bearing material to separate the elements.

What is smelting?

100

The river that ran through Nubia and Egypt.

What is the Nile River?

100
Nubia was like Egypt was divided into these.

What is Upper and Lower Nubia?

100
a strong king who conquered Kush and burned Meroe to the ground.

Who is Ezana?

100

the defeat by this group taught the Kushites they needed better stronger weapons.

Who are the Assyrians?

200

a leveled-off area of land used for farming.

What is a terrace?
200
the horn-shaped area in eastern Africa in which Aksum was located.

What is the Horn of Africa?

200
a powerful kingdom in Nubia after the decline of Egypt.

What is Kush?

200
architecture achievement that used no mortar and features include false doors and windows.

What is Pillars of Aksum?

200

Kushites gods in Nubia were similar to this country.

What is Egypt?

300

a Kushite king who conquered Egypt.

Who is Piankhi?

300

a region of Africa that covers parts of Egypt and Sudan.

What is Nubia?

300

Cultural exchange with Egypt.

What is diffusion?

300

written language, is the basis for three others.

What is Ge'ez?

300
Kush royalty were buried in these kinds of stone tombs. 

What are pyramids? 

400

a powerful king of Aksum who helped the kingdom achieve greatness.

Who is Ezana?

400

a powerful ancient kingdom of Nubia.

What is Kush?

400

a foreign pharaoh he united Egypt and Kush.

Who is Piankhi?

400
hilly and rugged this technique was used to farm the land.

What is terrace?

400

Similar to hieroglyphs found in Egypt the people of Kush had an alphabet of how many symbols?

What is 23?

500

was a later Kushite ruler of Egypt, he spent most of his reign fighting the Assyrians, who invaded and conquered Egypt in 671 BCE.

Who is Taharqa?

500

a kingdom that rose to power in the 4 century BCE in modern Ethiopia and Eritrea..

What is Aksum?

500

the capital of Kush in the first period.

What is Napata?

500

Aksum's farmers used these techniques to bring water to the terraces.

What is canals, dams, and holding ponds.

500

the capital of Kush starting about 590 BCE and a center of trade.

What is Meroe?

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