Who knows about the early civilization of Nubia?
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Found this site for ya. It gives good info!
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM\nhttp://history.enotes.com/early-civilization-almanac/aztec-government-economy\nhttp://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/INCAS.HTM
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This is a bit of a loaded question. If we define civilization as "agrarian (farming) societies with solid structures and a loose governmental hierarchy, then we can say Sumerian and Babylonian peoples, in Mesopotamia (the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers - now called Iraq). \n\nBut it's imortant to realize that human brain hasn't changes for some 30,000 years. If we say roughly, the Mesopotamia was 5,000-2,500 b.c.e., (nearly 7,000 years ago), then we have to ask what happened before that? \n\nHuman no doubt lived in tribal units, and were learning the art of agriculture and animal husbandry. They no doubt had social structures and rules. So, the only difference is building. We could say that they in fact were civilized or at least trying to be. \n\nBut technically, on the books, it's Mesopotamia.
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It was during the Amarna period.
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the regularity and richness of the annual nile river flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. a unified kingdom arose circa 3200 b.c. and a series of dynasties ruled in egypt for the next three millennia. the last native dynasty fell to the persians in 341 b.c., who in turn were replaced by the greeks, romans, and byzantines. it was the arabs who introduced islam and the arabic language in the 7th century and who ruled for the next six centuries. a local military caste, the mamluks took control about 1250 and continued to govern after the conquest of egypt by the ottoman turks in 1517. following the completion of the suez canal in 1869, egypt became an important world transportation hub, but also fell heavily into debt. ostensibly to protect its investments, britain seized control of egypt's government in 1882, but nominal allegiance to the ottoman empire continued until 1914. partially independent from the uk in 1922, egypt acquired full sovereignty following world war II. the completion of the aswan high dam in 1971 and the resultant lake nasser have altered the time-honored place of the nile river in the agriculture and ecology of egypt. a rapidly growing population (the largest in the arab world), limited arable land, and dependence on the nile all continue to overtax resources and stress society. the government has struggled to ready the economy for the new millennium through economic reform and massive investment in communications and physical infrastructure. \n\nlocation: northern africa, bordering the mediterranean sea, between libya and the gaza strip, and the red sea north of sudan, and includes the asian sinai peninsula  \n\ngeographic coordinates: 27 00 n, 30 00 e  \nmap references: africa  \n\narea:    \ntotal: 1,001,450 sq km \nland: 995,450 sq km \nwater: 6,000 sq km  \n\narea - comparative: slightly more than three times the size of new mexico  \nland boundaries: total: 2,665 km border countries: gaza strip 11 km, israel 266 km, libya 1,115 km, sudan 1,273 km  \n\ncoastline: 2,450 km  \n\nclimate: desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters  \nterrain: vast desert plateau interrupted by nile valley and delta  \n\nelevation extremes:   \nlowest point: qattara depression -133 m \nhighest point: mount catherine 2,629 m  \n\nnatural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, manganese, limestone, gypsum, talc, asbestos, lead, zinc  \n\npopulation: 77,505,756 (july 2005 est.)  \nage structure: 0-14 years: 33% (male 13,106,043/female 12,483,899) 15-64 years: 62.6% (male 24,531,266/female 23,972,216) 65 years and over: 4.4% (male 1,457,097/female 1,955,235) (2005 est.)  \n\nnationality:   \nnoun: egyptian(s) \nadjective: egyptian  \n\nethnic groups:   \neastern hamitic stock (egyptians, bedouins, and berbers) 99%, greek, nubian, armenian, other european (primarily italian and french) 1%  \n\nreligions:   \nmuslim (mostly sunni) 94%, coptic christian and other 6%  \n\nlanguages: arabic (official), english and french widely understood by educated classes  \n\ngovernment type: republic  \ncapital: cairo\n\nand so much more on by source...
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From archaeological evidence it would appear that the first groups of people to stop being hunter-gatherers and set up permanent settlements with agriculture and domestic animals and a structured community was in Sumer. They also started us on the road to mathematics, geometry, poetry, fancy religious rituals, reading, writing and astrology. They seemed to have been pretty fair at homeopathic medicine and they were positively wizard at law. Politicking seems to have been another of their inventions, discoveries, whatever. They're the first we've ever found to record elections of local officials. Imagine that. And you thought the USA invented democracy. Or maybe the Athenian Greeks. Sorry, Sumer beat 'em both by about 3,000 years!\n\nLocation: Modern-day Basra area, in southern Iraq.
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your best bet is to look here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt
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The Egyptians were what we would call black people.  The current North african type is a result of massive Arab invasions that took place  during the 7th and 8th centuries AD.  During the time of Ancient Egypt, the Arabs had a marginal population throughout the world.  There is an extremely wide range of ethinic groups and physical types throughout the continent of Africa, all of which fall into the category of what we would call black people.  There is no such thing as an independent racial type.  The Ancient Nubians have been accepted as "extremely black" and they occupied the exact same climate and region as the Egyptians did.  For the Egyptians to be anything but black, would take a scientific miracle that world as yet to see.
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The "IN" civilization of its day (about 4000 B.C. it is said)! Great dances, written language, innovative societal structure... a people ahead of their time. Possibly the true founders of 'civilization'. They seem to have arrived on the scene fully developed (economically, politically, intellectually) and certainly established themselves in myth and history as the "Ancient Ones", even to those civilizations we consider ancient. Hmmmmm.... where DID they come from?
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The strong faith and believe of the people who used to live in that region. Historians say egyptiens, but believe me, egyptiens these days are not the same as the old egyptiens!!!!....\nSo i doubt its from the same transendence, the same blood...you know what i mean!\nProof of sarcofagus of the workers...\n\nMy other theory is Aliens, xtraterrestrial cosmic power who helped the people to build! \nProof of maya pyramid...(another mystery)\n\nits frustrating to go inside it though! Clostrophobic dark and tiny walking spaces!!!!
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About Egyptian Pyramids\n\nThere are no more famous ancient sites within Egypt, or for that matter elsewhere in the world, than the Great Pyramids at Giza. They are, without question, the icon most associated with the Egypt. They have been both the main destination for tourists, and a source of imaginative thought to the world for over three thousand years.\n\nHowever, there are actually over 100 pyramids in Egypt, many of which are relatively unknown to anyone who is not an ancient Egypt enthusiast. All but a very few are grouped around and near the City of Cairo, just south of the Nile Delta. Otherwise, only one royal pyramid is known in southern Egypt (at Abydos), that being the one built by Ahmose, founder of the 18th Dynasty and Egypt's New Kingdom. It may have also been the last royal pyramid built in Egypt. \n\nHence, major pyramids were not built throughout Egypt's ancient history. The Pyramid Age began with a burst of building, starting with the 3rd Dynasty reign of Djoser. Some of the early kings, most specifically Snefru, built more than one pyramid. Almost all of the kings added to their number through the end of the Middle Kingdom, with the possible exception of the First Intermediate Period between the Old and Middle Kingdoms. After the first Pharaoh of Egypt's New Kingdom, Ahmose, royal pyramid building by Egyptians ceased entirely. Somewhat abruptly the kings of the New Kingdom chose, rather than making their tombs completely obvious, to hide them in the hills of the West Bank of Thebes (modern Luxor). \n\nHowever, smaller pyramids were constructed, for example in the Deir el-Medina necropolis, by private individuals. The Late Period Nubians who ruled Egypt also built relatively small pyramids with much steeper sides, though these were in fact constructed in Nubia itself. This tradition was carried on in Nubia after these southern rulers lost control of Egypt, and eventually, more pyramids were actually built in Nubia than Egypt, though on a much smaller scale. \n\nOther pyramids in the world certainly exist, but their purpose, for the most part, was different than those of ancient Egypt. The most famous outside Egypt are probably those located in Mexico and to the south of Mexico, but these appear to have been built more as temples. In Egypt, all but a select few of the pyramids were built as tombs, sometimes to hold the physical body of a pharaoh (as well as other individuals), or to hold the soul of the deceased (as in the case of the small cult pyramids built next to the larger ones). Otherwise, the purpose of only a few small, regional stepped pyramids remains elusive. \n\nWhile pyramids were, for the most part, tombs for the Pharaohs of Egypt, one must nevertheless question the reason that Egyptian rulers chose this particular shape, and for that matter, why they built them so large. Today, we believe that they chose the shape in order to mimic the Benben, a pyramid shaped stone found in the earliest of temples, which itself is thought to symbolize the primeval mound from which the Egyptians believed life emerged. This also connected the pyramid to Re, the Sun God, as it was he, according to some of the ancient Egypt mythology, who rose from the primeval mound to create life. \n\nAs far the great size of many of the pyramids in Egypt, we can really only surmise that the Pharaohs were making a statement about their own power and perhaps, about the glory and strength of their country. However, it should also be remembered that many of the latter pyramids were not nearly as large as the Great Pyramids at Giza (and elsewhere).\n\nPyramids evolved. The first of them was not a perfectly formed pyramid. In fact, the first Pyramid we believe that was built in Egypt, that of Djoser, was not a true pyramid at all with smooth sides and a point at the top. Rather, its sides were stepped, and the top of the pyramid truncated with a flat surface (as best we know). As the Egyptian pyramids evolved, there wer
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&*&*&\nI HOPE THIS HELPS YOU.  GOOD LUCK!!!\n\n\nhttp://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/animalgods.htm\n\nAnimals and the Gods of Ancient Egypt\nby Caroline Seawright\n\nEgyptian towns usually had their own local sacred animal. It was thought that some gods and goddesses represented themselves on earth in the form of a single representative of a specific species, and honoring that species of animal would please the god or goddess associated with the animal. The animal believed to be the incarnation of the god or goddess lived a pampered life in and near the temples and religious centers.\n\nBaboon y`n baboon determinative y`n - The dog-headed baboon was one of the manifestations of both Thoth, god of writing, and Khonsu, the youthful moon god. Both deities were related to the moon. Hapy, the son of Horus who guarded the canopic jars that held the lungs, had the head of a baboon. There was also a baboon god in the Early Dynastic period named Hedjwer, 'The Great White One', who became closely linked with Thoth. Sometimes Thoth was shown in baboon form, perched on top of the scales of judgement in the underworld.\n\nBast, Egyptian Cat Goddess Cat myywcat determinative myw - Many deities were depicted as cats, both domestic or wild, and so they were seen as benevolent, sacred animals. Bast, originally a desert cat, was later depicted as a domestic cat. Ra was shown as 'The Great Cat of Heliopolis' who defeated Apep in 'The Book of the Dead'.\n\nCattle mnnmnntcattle determinative mnmnt - Hathor, Isis, Nut and Bat were three goddesses who were often depicted as cows, with the horns of cows or with the ears of cows. Because of this, and because of the relationship of the pharaoh as a living god, the cow came to symbolize the mother of the pharaoh. The cow was also a solar icon, where Nut carried the sun across the sky on her back, when she was in cow form. The cow was linked to female fertility and to the mother of the pharaoh. Osiris was related to the bull - the Apis bull, after death, became Osiris-Apis. While it was still alive, the Apis bull was seen as the Ba of Ptah, mummified god of creation. The Mnevis bull was regarded as the Ba of Ra-Atum. The bull, therefor, was linked to masculinity and the pharaoh.\n\nWadjet in her Human-headed Cobra Form Cobra djtcobra in a basket determinative djt - The cobra was sacred to Wadjet, the cobra goddess of Buto, who represented Lower Egypt and kingship. The cobra goddess Renenet was a fertility goddess who was sometimes depicted as nursing children and as protector of pharaoh. Another cobra goddess was Meretseger, 'she who loves silence', who could punish criminals with blindness or her venom.\n\nCrocodile mshcrocodile determinative msh - Ammut, the demoness at the judgement hall, had the head of a crocodile along with other fearful creatures, and was known as 'the devourer of the dead' who punished evildoers by eating their hearts. The god of the Athribis region, the solar god Horus Khenty-Khenty, was sometimes shown as a crocodile. But the crocodile was also sacred to Sobek, who was portrayed as a human with the head of a crocodile, or as the crocodile itself. The temples of Sobek usually had sacred lakes where crocodiles were fed and cared for. The hippo goddess of childbirth, Taweret, was thought to have the back and tail of a crocodile, or was shown with a crocodile perched on her back.\n\nFalcon / Hawk bykfalcon with a flagellum determinative byk - The sacred bird of the falcon-headed solar god Horus, it was also regarded as his Ba. The falcon was a bird that had protective powers, and was frequently linked with royalty, where it was depicted as hovering over the head of the pharaoh, with outstretched wings. The falcon was also sacred to Montu, god of war, and Sokar, god of the Memphite necropolis. The bird of prey was sometimes associated with Hathor, 'The House of Horus'. The son of Horus, Qebehsenuef who guarded the canopic jar of t
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http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wsem/hd_wsem.htm\nGreat website that talks all about the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires of the western Sudan.  Includes maps and photos of artifacts. The site discusses historical events, the rise and fall of the kingdoms.
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Human remains covered in resin and cloth were found inside a 5,000-year-old cedar wood coffin at Sakkara near Cairo, Egypt. \nThe coffin had been placed in a tomb thought to date from 3100 to 2890 BC under Egypt's 1st Dynasty.
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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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i always found an intrest an ancient egypt. It always told of the power of the past and opens inpiration to my writing. (i am a writer). They always put things about this in scolastics at the following website.
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Actually, no one really knows who the first boat was made by but here's some useful info about it.\n\nhttp://www.ancientworlds.net/23986