Nubia | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-01

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00:01:43 1 Linguistics
00:03:09 2 Geography
00:03:47 3 History
00:03:56 3.1 Prehistory
00:11:26 3.2 Nubia and Ancient Egypt
00:16:43 3.3 Kerma
00:19:05 3.4 Kush
00:19:13 3.4.1 Napatan period
00:20:46 3.4.2 Meroitic period
00:21:34 3.5 Achaemenid period
00:24:18 3.6 Christian Nubia
00:27:28 3.7 Islamic Nubia
00:28:15 4 Contemporary issues
00:29:05 5 Notes
00:29:14 6 Further reading
00:31:25 7 External links



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SUMMARY
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Nubia () was a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between Aswan in southern Egypt and Khartoum in central Sudan. It was the seat of one of the earliest civilizations of ancient Africa, with a history that can be traced from at least 2500 BC onward with the Kerma culture. The latter was conquered by the New Kingdom of Egypt under pharaoh Thutmose I around 1500 BC. Nubia was home to several empires, most prominently the kingdom of Kush, which conquered Egypt during the 8th century BC during the reign of Piye and ruled the country as its Twenty-fifth Dynasty (to be replaced a century later by the native Egyptian Twenty-sixth Dynasty). 
The collapse of Kush in the 4th century AD after more than a thousand years of existence was precipitated by an invasion by Ethiopia's Kingdom of Aksum and saw the rise of three Christian kingdoms, Nobatia, Makuria and Alodia, the last two again lasting for roughly a millennium. Their eventual decline initiated not only the partition of Nubia into the northern half conquered by the Ottomans and the southern half by the Sennar sultanate in the 16th century, but also a rapid Islamization and partial Arabization of the Nubian people. Nubia was again united under the Khedivate of Egypt in the 19th century. Today, the region of Nubia is split between Egypt and Sudan.
The primarily archaeological science dealing with ancient Nubia is called Nubiology.