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In the 1400's BCE, the Kingdom of Kerma in Nubia was invaded and conquered by this large empire from the north.
What is Egypt?
To travel from the center of Ancient Egypt to the center of the Kingdom of Kush, you would move in this direction.
What is south?
Like Egyptian pharaohs, the Kushite kings also had these structures built for their tombs.
What are pyramids?
All major cities in Nubia were located along this body of water.
What is the Nile River?
People in the Kingdom of Kush adopted many of the religious traditions and gods of this ancient civilization.
What is Egypt?
Egypt was weak by the end of its Middle Kingdom around 1700 BCE. People in Nubia broke away from Egyptian rule and formed this new independent kingdom.
What is Kush?
This name describes the region of central and northeastern Africa that was home to the kingdoms of Kerma and Kush.
What is Nubia?
This king first invaded Egypt in about 750 BCE and began capturing Egyptian cities.
Who is King Kashta?
This is the name of Nubia's first kingdom, which formed when stronger villages took over weaker ones and then combined together.
What is Kerma?
Like the Egyptians, people in Kush followed this process of preparing dead bodies for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
This empire invaded Egypt in 671 BCE and took control away from Kush (but it didn't conquer all of Kush).
What is Assyria?
The savannas of Nubia were south of which desert in Africa?
What is the Sahara?
This Kushite King finished conquering all of Egypt in 728 BCE and began a dynasty that ruled both Kush and Egypt for about 60 years.
Who is King Piye?
This city in the Kush Kingdom was built in the style of an Egyptian city.
What is Meroë?
The Assyrians invaded Egypt in about 670 BCE and drove the Kushites out. But the Kushites learned from the Assyrians how to make this material for weapons and tools.
What is iron?
The Kingdom of Kush ended when invaders destroyed its capital city of Meroë in this century.
What is the Fourth Century (or 300's CE)?
The Kush city of Napata was in a good location to become a center for trade because it's where caravans had to cross this.
What is the Nile River?
King Piye was this relative of King Kashta.
What is son (or child)?
This was the first capital city for the Kingdom of Kush.
What is Napata?
What were the two major materials produced in the Kush capital city of Meroë?
What are iron and textiles?
The Kingdom of Kush ended when it was conquered by this other kingdom.
What is Axum?
The kingdom that conquered Kush came west from the coast along this body of water.
What is the Red Sea?
This name is given to the group of Nubian kings from Kush who ruled both Kush and Egypt around 700 BCE.
What is the "Black Pharaohs"?
This Egyptian city was one of the first to be conquered by the Kush armies coming north from Napata.
What is Thebes?
In addition to soot (thick black smoke), the iron furnaces in Meroë created huge piles of this shiny black waste material.
What is slag?