#Kingdom of Kush

[gritsandbrits]

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[egypt-ancient-and-modern]

Harwa, chief steward of the God’s Wife of Amun, Amunirdis I- the daughter of the Kushite King Kashta.

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[noosphe-re]

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[spectator-ion]

pls infodump about the kingdom of kush

I'll be honest, I learnt most of my stuff through late night wiki dives, but it's a fascinating thing.

For one thing, while it changed massively over time, the kingdom of Kush lasted for so many centuries, even with conflict from it's neighbours, the Egyptians and Assyrians.

The parts I think are fantastic are the 25th dynasty when they conquered Egypt and started building pyramids along the Nile. It wasn't a particularly peaceful time, but I love that they left their mark on the land there.

^ these were built in the time of Taharqa and after

Also the society had higher levels of woman involvement for the time. For instance the position Kandake was for the sister of the king as the bearer of the heir to the throne. This allowed for women to rule as Queen regents so to speak, and there are at least eleven of these such rulers in the kingdom of Kush.

They traded with the Romans, revolted against Roman taxes and outlasted then, which is fantastic in itself, even if the kingdom had moved further south in the continent at that point.

They used all sorts of ways to improve agriculture, including a type of water wheel called 'saqiyah' which helped to lift heavy amounts of water. Reservoirs were made all over the kingdom and some still remain to this day. Also they have some fantastic statues of their rulers.

^ Taharqa's the tall one at the back.

Honestly I'm still learning so much. I can't summarise a millennia of a kingdom in one excited garble of a post, and I am happy enough to just point and say 'Look! Ancient civilisations being super cool! Look at that!'

So thanks for the ask, and I hope this was alright :)

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[certainempatheticturkeymuffin]

Y'all ever heard of Amanirenas?

She's a badass African Queen. Went toe to toe with Egypt and Rome and kept her kingdom safe. It's a shame that I only know she exists because I take an African American History course.

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[panafrocore]

The Kingdom of Kush: An Ancient Civilization in the Nile Valley

The Kingdom of Kush, also known as the Kushite Empire, holds a significant place in the annals of ancient history. This powerful kingdom flourished in Nubia, an area along the Nile Valley encompassing present-day northern Sudan and southern Egypt. With a rich and complex history, the Kingdom of Kush emerged as a formidable force, engaging in warfare, trade, and cultural exchange with neighboring…

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[lightdancer1]

The first great example of imperial blowback is the Kushite Dynasty:

The history of Pharaonic Egypt is like that of Imperial China, oscillations of periods of centralized glory and despotic empires that ruled All Under Heaven and decentralized local states that were just as ancient, reappeared in a great many guises as unification was never as easy as official propaganda made it look, and the reality that the most powerful rulers sought to expand wherever they could. Its last phases also include the periods when various foreign dynasties adopted Pharaonic symbolism and tend to be treated as Pharaohs in their eyes and to a point, but only to a point, by the Egyptians themselves.

The Kushite Dynasty secured its power by linking older Kushite ways of waging war to the powerful military machines of Egypt, unifying a fractured set of states and lasting until the Emperor Esarhaddon of Asshur decided he wanted more grain and brought a world-imperial army into Africa for the first of many times. Kush was strong enough under its strongest rulers to reach well into Phoenicia, but against the Assyrians at their height they folded like everyone else did, and retreated to a Neo-Pharaonic system that would last through and until the rise of Christianity.

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[zorubark]

the ancient greeks literally named the aethiopians after "burned face", made multiple sculptures and pottery of heads that are clearly black, but Andromeda still got portrayed as white even though everything points to her being black

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[ancientorigins]

The Kushites went from underdogs to Egypt’s rulers. How did they rise to such power?

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[justsomeguycore]

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[fredbydawn]

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[panafrocore]

Queen Amanirenas of the Kingdom of Kush

Queen Amanirenas of the Kingdom of Kush was a remarkable and influential leader during her reign at the turn of the 1st century BCE to the beginning of the 1st century CE. Her legacy is intertwined with her bold and strategic actions in halting the Roman expansion into Kush, which is present-day Sudan. Amanirenas held the full title of Amnirense qore li kdwe li, which translates to “Ameniras,…

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[lightdancer1]

As with most absolute monarchies the real faces of power were as much the forts as they were the arts:

A good example of how Pharaonic power was actually enforced in real time is the first of the two fortresses mentioned, one of which is more well-known for a very specific set of Papyrus that provides one of the many, many ironies in viewing the histories of old Khemet. It should also be stated that these were the real face of Pharaonic power in its more brutal senses, places built to both provide space for garrisons in barracks and to withstand attacks from Nubian infantry, archers, and cavalry.

This is also the kind of fortresses the Nubians both learned to take and then built their own when they became overlords of Egypt in turn. And this is also a continuous factor in the history of Black Africa as elsewhere in the world, because the world is not a vacuum or a place of separate iron curtains. Other cultures can and do force peoples out of complacency and lead to major military revolutions.

Too, as will be covered tomorrow with the Graeco-Roman world and Black people, the Egyptian influence would expand from the Sudan into the Sahara with the Garamantes, and in both Biblical and Hellenistic writings there was very real awareness of the military power of Kush and of Eastern African states. That, however, is a full around 3,000 years from the span when the first realities of warfare between states in Africa that enter the written record are those of Egyptian and Kushite armies in the deadly dances of death along the Nile and the Nile fortresses.

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