was kemet the ancient name of egypt or ethiopia?
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KEMET is the land around river Nile,in the ancient Egupt.\nEgypt is a transcontinental nation located mostly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula lying in Asia. The country has shorelines on the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Suez; it borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and the Gaza Strip, Palestine and Israel to the east. Ancient Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as Upper and Lower Egypt. The Nile river flows northward from a southerly point to the Mediterranean. The Nile river, around which much of the population of the country clusters, has been the lifeline for Egyptian culture since the Stone Age and Naqada cultures.\n\nThe area around the Nile was called Kemet ("the black land", in Ancient Egyptian Kmt), the name for the dark soil deposited by the Nile floodwaters. In contrast, the desert was called Deshret ("the red land", in Ancient Egyptian Dsrt), c.f. Herodotus: "Egypt is a land of black soil.... We know that Libya is a redder earth" (Histories, 2:12). The vowels within the consonants K-M-T are not known with certainty. Coptic, however, provides some indication.
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The Religions practised in Ethiopia are:\nMuslim 45%-50%\nEthiopian Orthodox 35%-40%\nAnimist 12% \nOther 3%-8%
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The ark is now in Ethiopia.
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your best bet is to look here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt
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"The first African civilization after Egypt was built by an Egyptianized people who lived between the Nile River's first and third cataracts and spoke Nilo-Saharan languages. This region around the first cataract, called Nubia, had been conquered and colonized by Egypt in the fourth millenium BC. Because of this, Egyptian civilization diffused southward and a new African kingdom was built up in the floodplain around the Nile's third cataract: the Kush. Their capital city was Kerma and it served as the major trading center for goods travelling north from the southern regions of Africa. \n\n"Kush attained its greatest power and cultural energy between 1700 and 1500 BC during the Third Intermediate period in Egypt. The domination of Egypt by the Hyksos allowed Kush to come out from under the hegemony of Egypt and flower as a culture; this period ended, however, when the New Kingdom kings, having thrown the Hyksos out of Egypt, reconquered Kush and brought it under Egyptian colonial rule."\n\nMuch more at the article linked below.
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1.  The Egyptians main food was bread.  It was made out of barley and emmer wheat. Numerous varieties of fruits and vegetables were also grown in irrigated gardens.  They also ate a variety of meat, fish, and fowl. Fowl included domestic geese, pigeons and a wide variety of wild birds. \n2.  There are no forests in Egypt but there are date palms and citrus groves. Papyrus plants grow only near the Nile.\n3. The climate in Egypt is hot and dry and there are only two seasons which are winter (December through March) , and summer ( the rest of the year). The average temperature in the winter is between 55 and 70 degrees F. The average temperature in the summer is between 80 and 90 degrees F. In the summer the temperature can be as high as 110 degrees F.\n4.  Egyptians believed in the concept of life after death, which led them to the art of embalming and drove them to build the pyramids and tombs.  They also believed in god worship.  The god-forms each represented a principle or aspect of the supreme creator.  \n5.  The area of Egypt is 386,662 square miles. The distances from east to west is 770 miles and from north to south it is 675 miles.\n6.  Egyptians, men and women, wore beaded necklaces, bracelets, and anklets.  They used wooden colored beads and yarn to make colorful jewelry.  \n7.  Egypt is in Africa. It is bordered by Mediterranean Sea, on the North and by the East, the Red Sea. The longest river in the world, the Nile River, goes right through it. \n8.  Imagine how big 90 pyramids would be all together? Well, more than 90 pyramids in Egypt are on the west bank of the Nile River. They did this for a religious reason: the sun sets on the West Bank of the Nile River. \n9.  Egypt is divided into 4 main parts, The Nile Valley, The Arabian Desert, The Libyan Desert, and The Sinai. About 95 percent of Egypt is desert land. The Sahara Desert covers more than two thirds of Egypt. The other deserts are the Libyan Desert, the Arabian Desert, and the Nubian Desert.  \n10.  Egypt is 50 feet below sea level. Some important cities, towns, and places in Egypt are Cairo (the capitol) , Giza, Memphis, Thebes, Alexandria, Suez Canal, Abu Simbel, Sinai Peninsula, and Rosetta. The highest point in Egypt is Jabal Katrina and is 8,668 feet high. The lowest point is Qattara Depression and is 436 feet below sea level.
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The Rhind Papyrus was an Egyptian document and hence its author must have been some Egyptian priest or scholar. Actual author is unknown
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Ethiopia is the only African country which was not colonized by European colonial forces
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Definitions of nefertiti on the Web:\n\nGreat royal wife of Akhénaton*, with whom she had 6 daughters. Nefertiti is recognisable by her tall blue crown -- she is the only ancient Egyptian woman to wear such a crown.\nhttp://www.geocities.com/amuns_temple/Glossary.htm\n\nChief Wife of Akhenaten. Local: Nefertiti. Links: Nefertiti.\nhttp://katherinestange.com/egypt/gloss.htm\n\nqueen of Egypt and wife of Akhenaton (14th century BC) \nhttp://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn\n\nNefertiti was the wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (later Akhenaten), and mother-in-law of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Her name roughly translates to "the beautiful one is come". She also shares her name with a type of elongated gold bead that she was often portrayed as wearing, known as "nefer" beads. \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti\n\nNefertiti is an album recorded in June and July 1967 by the Miles Davis quintet. It is best known for the unusual title track, on which the horn section repeats the melody numerous times without individual solos while the rhythm section improvises underneath. \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti_(album)
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try this website. my son had to do a project on egyptians and this one helped.
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They believe that Haile Selassie (Ras Tafari), former emperor of Ethiopia is God (Jah) incarnate. Some symbols of their religion include dreadlocks and smoking marijuana (called ganja),
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Many ancient Egyptian names contained the name of a god. At times, the god may be assumed, so we have names that contain the phrase "god is gracious", or "whom god loves", but here the term god undoubtedly refers not to an abstract deity but rather to a specific, assumed deity which might be a local god, or the god to whom the parents prayed. Much of the time, the god was named.\n\nCommon words or phrases were often used in names. These included ankh (life), mery (beloved), hotep (peace), nefer (beautiful) and khenemet (one who is joined with) \n\nMany names could be used by both males and females, and in these instances, an identifier, such as a hieroglyphic man or woman, was appended to the name in order to make it masculine or feminine. However, "et" on the end of a name, or sometimes in the middle of it, appears to have been a feminine identifier, and "pa-sheri" (masculine) or "ta-sherit" (feminine) was somewhat similar to the equivalent of "Junior" today. We also find Si, meaning son, or Sit, meaning daughter.
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He's mainly known for imposing the exclusive worship of his familial deity, Aten-Ra or more simply Aten, on the entirety of Kmet. Thus he became the earliest known historical example of monotheism.  Radical changes in art and architecture were a side-effect of his lifting many ancient religious strictures.  \n\nAkhenaten's reign was fairly short-lived, and so were his changes.  Kmetic religion and art reverted to its previous state soon after his death, when his son Tutankhamun ascended to the pharaonic throne.\n\nhttp://www.touregypt.net/18dyn10.htm
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yes there were. before and after. the old testament referred to them as cushites(ethiopia was known as cush). in the new testament phillip teaches and baptises an ethiopian. there were a lot of trade routes by land and sea and a lot of multi-cultural contact. at the pentacost where the holy spirit was given, there were people present from all over the known world(acts).
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Yes,the Ethiopians really do have the Ark of the Covenant.I saw something about it being in their possession a few years ago on the Discovery Channel & read something about it in National Geographic magazine.\n\nAs to why the Vatican doesn't have it,what I read about it & what I watched on TV about it,that wasn't even addressed.My guess is that they weren't sure about its existence,since,up until a few years ago,many people(mainly archaelogists),didn't believe that it still existed after 586 B.C.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_medicine\nwww.mic.ki.se/Egypt.html
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The first African civilization after Egypt was built by an Egyptianized people who lived between the Nile River's first and third cataracts and spoke Nilo-Saharan languages. This region around the first cataract, called Nubia, had been conquered and colonized by Egypt in the fourth millenium BC. Because of this, Egyptian civilization diffused southward and a new African kingdom was built up in the floodplain around the Nile's third cataract: the Kush. Their capital city was Kerma and it served as the major trading center for goods travelling north from the southern regions of Africa. \n\n   Kush attained its greatest power and cultural energy between 1700 and 1500 BC during the Third Intermediate period in Egypt. The domination of Egypt by the Hyksos allowed Kush to come out from under the hegemony of Egypt and flower as a culture; this period ended, however, when the New Kingdom kings, having thrown the Hyksos out of Egypt, reconquered Kush and brought it under Egyptian colonial rule. \n\n   However, when the New Kingdom collapsed in 1000 BC, Kush again arose as a major power by conquering all of Nubia. The conquest of upper Nubia, which had been in the hands of the Egyptians since the fourth millenium, gave to Kush wealthy gold mines. \n\n   Following the reassertion of Kushite independence in 1000 BC, the Kushites moved their capital city farther up the Nile to Napata. The Kushites by and large considered themselves to be Egyptians and the proper inheritors of the pharoanic titles and tradition. They organized their society along Egyptian lines, assumed all the Egyptian royal titles, and their architecture and art was based on Egyptian architectural and artistic models. Their pyramids were smaller and steeper and they introduced other innovations as well, but the Napatan culture does not on the surface appear much different than Egyptian culture. \n\n   The Kushites even invaded and conquered Egypt in a magnificent irony of history. The Napatan kings formed the twenty-fifth pharaonic dyansty in the eighth century; this dynasty came to an end with the Assyrian invasion of Egypt in the seventh century BC.