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African American
Nubia
characterised by their exotic luxury goods made from silver, bronze and most important, gold
used innovative techniques to make jewelry such as using glassmaking tech and experimenting with a wide range of enamel techniques
Certain animals were associated with royal power, in particular lions and rams
Culture: Material things such as Jewelry were highly valued as they had magical meanings, they where believed to protect the wearer from evil forces
Glassmaking became very sophisticated in Nubia. Particularly complex and impressive are what we call "stratified eye beads," which are multicolored beads with spots or circular rings representing eyes. Each bead would take hours to produce
Kush
when it ruled over a vast swath of territory along the Nile River in what is now Sudan. Neighbirs to Egyptions
worshipped some of the Egyptian gods, mummified their dead and built their own types of pyramids
economic center that operated a very good market in ivory, incense, iron and especially gold
traded with Egypt and fought with them. Kush then ruled Egypt as the 25th Dynasty—and so they adopted many customs
The area surrounding the ancient Kushite capital of Meroe is now home to the ruins of over 200 pyramids—more than in all of Egypt
Carthage
grew into a empire (that traveled by sea a lot) that dominated trade in textiles, gold, silver and copper
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its capital city had almost half a million inhabitants, including a protected harbor with docking bays for the vast 220 ships
They eventually extended from North Africa to Spain and parts of the Mediterranean, but their thirst for expansion led to a rising friction with the Roman Republic
they clashed in the 3 bloody Punic Wars, most of which ended in the near-total destruction of Carthage
Zimbabwe
an imposing collection of stacked boulders, stone towers and defensive walls assembled from cut granite blocks
Culture: the rock citadel was once thought to be the residence of the Biblical Queen of Sheba—but we now we know it as the capital city of an indigenous empire that thrived in the region between the 13th and 15th centuries
they ruled over a large chunk of modern day Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Cattle: they were very rich in cattle and precious metals. They had a trade route that connected their gold fields with ports on the Indian Ocean coast
they ruled over a large chunk of modern day Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique