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A drawing I made for Lord Apedemak

May he like it

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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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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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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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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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Did you guys know Andromeda was most likely black? She came from a place cale Aethiopia,

Ancient Aethiopia, (Greek: Αἰθιοπία, romanized: Aithiopía; also known as Ethiopia) first appears as a geographical term in classical documents in reference to the upper Nile region of Sudan, areas south of the Sahara, and certain areas in Asia. Its earliest mention is in the works of Homer: twice in the Iliad,[1] and three times in the Odyssey.[2] The Greek historian Herodotus uses the appellation to refer to such parts of sub-Saharan Africa as were then known within the inhabitable world.

The Greek name Aithiopia (Αἰθιοπία, from Αἰθίοψ, Aithíops, 'an Ethiopian') is a compound derived of two Greek words: αἴθω, aíthō, 'I burn' + ὤψ, ṓps, 'face'. According to the Perseus Project, this designation properly translates in noun form as burnt-face and in adjectival form as red-brown.[4][5] As such, it was used as a vague term for darker skinned populations than the Greeks since the time of Homer.[i][6] The term was applied to such peoples within the range of observation of the ancient geographers, primarily in what was then Nubia (in ancient Sudan).

Nubia had many queens, princesses, kings, so Andromeda being a nubian princess is likely! There's debate on where exactly she is from, since myths are a difficult thing to track down, but when I searched about it Nubia is one of the options that make more sense.

Happy Black History Month! I just wanted to dump my Andromeda lore and spread some awareness that she was in fact, not greek at all, like many may think!

Perseus and Andromeda (Frederick Leighton, 1891)

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ANCIENT AFRICA & THE KINGDOM OF KUSH

Ancient African Kingdoms: A Captivating Guide to Civilizations of Ancient Africa Such as the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, the Mali Empire, and the Kingdom of Kush

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Ancient Africa: A Captivating Guide to Ancient African Civilizations, Such as the Kingdom of Kush, the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, and the Mali Empire with Its Timbuktu

The Kingdom of Kush: A Captivating Guide to an Ancient African Kingdom in Nubia That Once Ruled Egypt

Africa is the continent where the first humans were born. They explored the vast land and produced the first tools. And although we migrated from that continent, we never completely abandoned it. From the beginning of time, humans lived and worked in Africa, leaving evidence of their existence in the sands of the Sahara Desert and the valleys of the great rivers such as the Nile and the Niger.

Some of the earliest great civilizations were born there, and they give us an insight into the smaller kingdoms of ancient Africa.

Some of the topics covered in part one of this book include:

The Kingdom of Kush

The Land of Punt

Carthage

The Kingdom of Aksum

The Ghana Empire

The Mali Empire

And much, much more!

Some of the topics covered in part two of this Book include:

Nubia and the emergence of the Kingdom of Kush

From Alara to the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty

The rulers of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty

Relations between Kush and Egypt continue

Kush between the sixth and third centuries

The Meroitic Dynasty

The last centuries of the Kingdom of Kush

The society of Kush

And much, much more!

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Images

So um I may have 'made' something. u/Eternalspace1969 made images of many egyptian deities and posted them on Reddit for free use. Considering there were none of Apedemak and Aman I decided to try my hand at editing some of his images to make their representations. So here they are!

Lord Apedemak

Lord Aman

and Lady Amesemi

He has uploaded his own drawings on wikimedia, I really recommend checking them out!

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do you think that traveling band was a polycule

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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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Kush. Collage - 382

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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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