Kingdoms flourished in what is now called Nubia since pre-Dynastic times. One of the first was known as Ta-Seti. Another was Sai. This was absorbed into the first Kushite Empire – Kerma (2400 – 1500 b.c.) in what is now Sudan. Kerma at one point extended from the 1st to 4th Cataracts. After being dominated by Egypt for nearly 500 years, Kush re-emerged, based now at Napata (1000 – c.450bc), later moving its capital to Meroe, which flourished c.450bc – 44o ad.

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