The process of heating mineral-bearing material to separate the elements.
What is smelting?
The river that ran through Nubia and Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
What is Upper and Lower Nubia?
Who is Ezana?
the defeat by this group taught the Kushites they needed better stronger weapons.
Who are the Assyrians?
a leveled-off area of land used for farming.
What is the Horn of Africa?
What is Kush?
What is Pillars of Aksum?
Kushites gods in Nubia were similar to this country.
What is Egypt?
a Kushite king who conquered Egypt.
Who is Piankhi?
a region of Africa that covers parts of Egypt and Sudan.
What is Nubia?
Cultural exchange with Egypt.
What is diffusion?
written language, is the basis for three others.
What is Ge'ez?
What are pyramids?
a powerful king of Aksum who helped the kingdom achieve greatness.
Who is Ezana?
a powerful ancient kingdom of Nubia.
What is Kush?
a foreign pharaoh he united Egypt and Kush.
Who is Piankhi?
What is terrace?
Similar to hieroglyphs found in Egypt the people of Kush had an alphabet of how many symbols?
What is 23?
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?
a kingdom that rose to power in the 4 century BCE in modern Ethiopia and Eritrea..
What is Aksum?
the capital of Kush in the first period.
What is Napata?
Aksum's farmers used these techniques to bring water to the terraces.
What is canals, dams, and holding ponds.
the capital of Kush starting about 590 BCE and a center of trade.
What is Meroe?