Imperial expansions, quotidian interactions and the ebb and flow of power and influence between Kush and Egypt

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ID6042644
AutoresStuart Tyson Smith (0000-0001-5665-3324, University of California, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen60
Número3
Páginas343-371
Fecha de publicación2025-07-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAzania Archaeological Research in Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0067-270X • E-ISSN: 1945-5534
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0067270x.2025.2517456
OpenAlexW4411427544
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas64

Ancient Egypt is often seen as the dominant colonial power in Northeast Africa during the Bronze and early Iron Ages, driving cultural and political developments in Nubia, ancient Kush, to the south. However, the first and second kingdoms of Kush played a dynamic and arguably equal role in the ebb and flow of power between the two regions. Rivals to Egyptian hegemony, Kushite leaders competed with Egypt for territorial control during the Bronze Age, in c. 1700 BC contributing to the fall of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom only to be absorbed into Egypt’s large New Kingdom territorial empire c. 1500 BC. Centuries later, around 750 BC, Egypt itself was then absorbed into an expansive Kushite empire that stretched from the confluence of the White and Blue Niles into western Asia and endured for a thousand years after the loss of Egypt c. 654 BC. Intercultural interaction took place within these larger political and imperial contexts but was conditioned by day-to-day encounters between individual Kushites and Egyptians. This dynamic included episodes of settler colonialism that drove diverse imperial outcomes, with various degrees of cultural entanglement resulting in complex patterns of mutual influence that transformed each society

Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Physics · Power (physics) · Thermodynamics · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History