Kingdom of Kerma
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The Kerma culture or Kerma kingdom was an early civilization centered in Kerma, Sudan. It flourished from around 2500 BCE to 1500 BCE in ancient Nubia.
Establishment
January 2499 BC: The Kerma culture or Kerma kingdom was an early civilization centered in Kerma (Sudan) that flourished from around 2500 BC to 1500 BC in ancient Nubia. The Kerma culture was based in the southern part of Nubia, or "Upper Nubia".
Chronology
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Military campaign of Egyptian Pharoh Pepi I in Nubia.
January 2331 BC: Egyptian Pharaoh Pepi I's reign was marked by aggressive expansion into Nubia. The Pharaoh received the Nubian chieftains on the southern border.
Was a period when ancient Egypt was broken into smaller dynasties for a second time, between the end of the Middle Kingdom and the start of the New Kingdom.
2.1.Secession of Nubia
Was the secession of territories in Nubia during the Second Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt.
2.1.1.Secession of Nédjeh
Nédjeh seceded from the Kingdom of Egypt and created a dynasty (the XVII dynasty) that ruled in Nubia between Elephantine and the second cataract of the Nile.
January 1569 BC: Nedjeh founded a Nubian kingdom between Elephantine and the second cataract of the Nile, whose capital was Buhen.
Military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep I in Nubia.
January 1529 BC: Two tomb texts indicate that Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep I led campaigns into Nubia. He sought to expand Egypt's border southward into Nubia and he led an invasion force which defeated the Nubian army. Amenhotep II built a temple at Saï, showing that he had established Egyptian settlements almost as far as the third cataract.
Military campaigns of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ahmose I.
January 1523 BC: Pharaoh Ahmose I successfully reasserted Egyptian power in its formerly subject territories of Nubia and Canaan.
January 1699 BC: The Kerma kingdom extended ist reach northward into Lower Nubia and the border of Egypt.
Disestablishment
January 1523 BC: Pharaoh Ahmose I successfully reasserted Egyptian power in its formerly subject territories of Nubia and Canaan.
Selected Sources
Breasted, James Henry. Ancient Records of Egypt, Vol. II University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1906. ISBN 90-04-12989-8. pp.17-18
Edwards, I.E.S. / Gadd, C.J. / Hammond, N.G.L. (2008): The Cambridge Ancient History, 3rd ed., Vol. I, Part 2, Cambridge University Press, pp. 191-193
Grimal, Nicolas (1992). A History of Ancient Egypt. Translated by Ian Shaw. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-631-19396-8. p. 192
Hafsaas-Tsakos, Henriette (2009). "The Kingdom of Kush: An African Centre on the Periphery of the Bronze Age World System". Norwegian Archaeological Review. 42 (1): 50–70.
Hafsaas-Tsakos, Henriette (2009). "The Kingdom of Kush: An African Centre on the Periphery of the Bronze Age World System". Norwegian Archaeological Review. 42 (1): 50–70. doi:10.1080/00293650902978590. S2CID 154430884.
