All about the ancient tribes
From the 3rd century BC to 3rd century AD, northern Nubia would be invaded and annexed to Egypt, ruled by the Greeks and Romans.
When did the Egyptians take over Lower Nubia?
From the 3rd century BC to 3rd AD century, northern Nubia would be invaded and annexed to Egypt.
In the 1400s b.c., the armies of Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III invaded Nubia. After a 50-year war, Kerma collapsed. The Egyptians ruled it for the next 700 years.
In approximately 1550 B.C., Egypt conquered its southern neighbor, Nubia, and secured control of valuable trade routes. But rather than excluding the colonized people from management of the region, new evidence suggests Egyptian immigrants shared administrative responsibilities with native Nubians.
During the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (c. 2040-1640 BCE), Egypt began expanding into Nubian territory in order to control trade routes, and to build a series of forts along the Nile.
King Piankhi is considered the first African Pharaoh to rule Egypt from 730 BC to 656 BC.
For the next century, the region known as Nubia — home to civilizations older than the dynastic Egyptians, skirting the Nile River in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt — was paid relatively little attention.
One of the earliest civilizations of ancient Northeastern Africa, with a history that can be traced from at least 2000 B.C. onward through Nubian monuments and artifacts as well as written records from Egypt and Rome, it was home to one of the African empires.
The Nubian kingdom of Kush, rival to Egypt.
Nubians (/ˈnuːbiənz, ˈnjuː-/) (Nobiin: Nobī) are an ethno-linguistic group of people who are indigenous to the region which is now present-day northern Sudan and southern Egypt. They originate from the early inhabitants of the central Nile valley, believed to be one of the earliest cradles of civilization.
The land of Egypt is found within the regions of northern Africa. Nubia, on the other hand, is located along the Nile river which is a part of northern Sudan and southern Egypt. Nubia is said to be the Land of Gold. Because of this, the Egyptians attempted to conquer the land of Nubia.
The British occupied Egypt in 1882, but they did not annex it: a nominally independent Egyptian government continued to operate. But the country had already been colonized by the European powers whose influence had grown considerably since the mid-nineteenth century.
This map shows the modern-day location of Nubia. Nubian history can be traced from c. 2000 BCE onward to 1504 AD, when Nubia was divided between Egypt and the Sennar sultanate and became Arabized. It was later united within the Ottoman Egypt in the 19th century, and the Kingdom of Egypt from 1899 to 1956.
Nubia and Egypt became rivals due to Nubia’s strategic location as a bridge or gateway for goods traveling between central Africa and Egypt. Nubia also had rich mineral resources, such as gold, copper, and iron ore. Three powerful kingdoms rose in Upper Nubia and began to challenge Egypt for control of the land.
Hatshepsut was only the third woman to become pharaoh in 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian history, and the first to attain the full power of the position. Cleopatra, who also exercised such power, would rule some 14 centuries later.