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5.5.5 Chronology
Term | Definition |
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Wet Holocene period when Sahara was arable | ca. 7500â2500 b.c.e. |
Rapid desiccation of Saharan region begins | ca. 2500 b.c.e. |
Increasing Egyptian influence in Nubia | ca. 2000â1000 b.c.e. |
Kushite kingdom with capital at Napata becomes independent of Egypt | ca. 1000â900 b.c.e. |
Kushite kings rule all of Egypt | 751â663 b.c.e. |
Meroe becomes new Kushite capital | ca. 591 b.c.e. |
Meroitic Empire (height of Kushite power, ca. 250 b.c.e.â50 c.e.) | ca. 500 b.c.e.â330 c.e. |
Egypt becomes part of Roman Empire of Octavi | 30 b.c.e. |
Nok culture flourishes on Jos Plateau in western Sudan (modern central Nigeria) | ca. 500 b.c.e.â500 c.e.? |
Rise of Aksum as trading power on Ethiopian plateau | First century c.e. |
Fall of Meroitic Empire to Ezana of Aksum | ca. 330 c.e. |
Heyday of Aksumite Ethiopia | ca. 200â400 c.e. |
Christianizing of the major Nubian states of Maqurra and Alwa | ca. 500â600 c.e. |
Maqurra and Alwa make peace with Arab Muslim armies from Egypt | 652 c.e. |