From Slave to Pharaoh : the Black Experience of Ancient Egypt.

From Slave to Pharaoh : the Black Experience of Ancient Egypt.

In From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and cultural interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that lay to the south of Egypt. These interactions resulted in the expulsion of the black Kushite pharaohs of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Redford, Donald B. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, Sept. 2006.
Subjects:
To 332 B.C.
Black people > Egypt > History.
Black people.
International relations.
Egypt > History > To 332 B.C.
Nubia > History.
Egypt > Relations > Sudan.
Sudan > Relations > Egypt.
Africa > Nubia.
Egypt.
Sudan.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Egyptians and Nubians
  • The problem of frontiers
  • Nubia : Egypt's primary sphere of influence
  • "Plotting in their valleys" : the unruly tribesmen
  • From chiefdom to state and back again : the final conquest of Kush
  • The Egyptian empire in Kush
  • The silent years : the abandonment of Lower Nubia and the rise of Napata
  • The Sudan invades Egypt
  • The invasion of Piankhy
  • The twenty-fourth dynasty
  • The resistance to Assyrian expansion
  • "Taharqa the conqueror"
  • Egypt of the "black pharaohs"
  • Thebes under the twenty-fifth dynasty
  • The end of the twenty-fifth dynasty in Egypt.

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