Kingdom of Kush
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South of Egypt, going more south of the Nile River, lay an area that is known as Nubia. Nubia was the home and birthplace of the kingdom of Kush. Nubia was "an important corridor of trade for gold, ivory, ebony, and ostrich feathers" (World History: People and Nations, 299). Kush was a small kingdom compared to all the others in the world. Also like other kingdoms, it had its golden age and its time of decline. The history of the kingdom is "divided up into two main periods" (Ancient Nubia Kingdom of Kush). Each of the periods had it's own capitol. Its first was the Napatan period for the time Napata was the capitol, and the second was the Meroitic Period for when Meroe was capitol (Ancient Nubia Kingdom of Kush). Very little is known about the decline of the kingdom, but the rival of the kingdom is turned out to be blamed. Other sources bring out more ideas to blame...