Nubia

Done by: Nasim & Nour Grade: 9

Geography of the Area

Nubia was located south of Elephantine, on the far south by the sixth cataract/waterfall, located north of modern Khartum. It was the country that bordered ancient Egypt on the south.

Geography of the Area

Nubia extended from dangola, in northern Sudan, up the Nile river to Aswan in southern Egypt. Today the Nubians are divided in three cities, Kom Omba in southern Egypt, and Wadi Halfa and khashm el-Girba in Sudan.

Culture
The earliest culture in Nubia, was a nomadic tribe which occupied Lower Nubia as early as 25000 B.C. This culture named Khormusan, depended on hunting, fishing, and collecting or learning techniques for survival. The materials remained of this culture are primarily stone tools, flakes, and a huge amount of rock paintings.

Culture..
Later on Nubia started developing and coming up with other new cultures such as, Halfan and the Gemaian. These new cultures made small advancements in technology, such as better stuffs or methods of stone tool production, and they would lighten and be succeeded by similar bands with small advancements.

Natural recourses

Nubia was an important neighbor to Egypt as early as the 1st dynasty ( both AHA and Djer attacked villages in Nubia), Egypt could trade for ivory, gold, ebony, ostrich feathers and eggs, leopard skins, copper, amethyst, carnelian, feldspar, oils, gum resins, cattle, dogs and many wild animals. Egypt was to invade Nubia many times to take advantage of its natural recourses In the end middle kingdom, Egyptian fortresses lined the Nile as mines and quarries were opened, and caravan routes brought the rich bounty of Nubia to Egypt.

Who were the people/ Where did they come from

The

Nubians were usually Arabs and most of them spoke Arabic. You could find some Sudanese and Ethiopians also.

Religion
The

Nubians are 100% Sunni Muslims. Because Islam is the only religion legally permitted in Nubia.

The time span of the kingdom/Empire

Nubia was the oldest cultural community in Africa known as the Land of Gold , to Egypt. In the 1st first period powerful central government expanded into Nubia. Whoever made the leadership of this kingdom always declined in the rapid succession of rulers. In the time of new kingdom, the kingdom of Kush has been established to south Egypt. Egypt falls into conflict rulers. King Taharqa led his Egyptian/Nubian armies against the invading Assyrians. In the rule of Cleopatra VII, Egypt was overpowered by Rome.

Legends/ Myths

Myth of Nubia: In the ongoing attempt to minimize the African involvement in such regions, even the inhabitants of Nubia sometimes fall prey to the Mediterranean Race Myth. When this is not the case, Nubia is minimized within the Nile valley as a purely Egyptian cultural invention. This has been the case so much so that some researchers have come to call Nubia, "the other Nile Valley kingdom." Often the myth portrays Egyptians as "superior whites" ruling over the more "primitive Blacks" to the south. In reality however, while Nubia and Egypt did war with each other, there were more years of peace than battle. These conflicts were usually territorial or economic and never racially motivated as certain Egyptians and Nubians obviously shared similar physical features. The victors were more often the larger kingdom of the Egyptians but sometimes the Nubians as well.

Who lives in this area today

Nubians today are not like before but some say or claim that they are blood-related of ancestry of old Nubian Arabs, Balkan, and Moslems. Nubia which now is also distributed between the northern Sudan and southern Egypt. Also nowadays Nubian in the north ( The Nile Nubian) are halfaween which is 2nd cataract to the northern Sudanese border with Egypt along the Nile. The main population is detached in more than a location. The new Nubia settlements by the Nubian who remained near to their old town and villages.

The End!