Nubian Research Paper

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Search Story The Nubians have always fascinated me ever since I had to do a short report on them in the sixth grade. I used to know very much about the Nubians, but frozen interest had gotten the better of me and I quit. I then proceeded to eventually unlearn almost everything about the Nubians except their name, so I have decided to do my I-search on the Nubians. Though doing this I-search will help me to a grade in English it will also help me my fire that burned for Nubian knowledge. As I soon found out, there are many websites that are not good sources for Nubian knowledge (*cough cough* Wikipedia *cough cough*). Therefore when I began my research on the Nubians it was very hard to find the specific details that I wanted for this…show more content…
This A-Group was the first Nubian civilization to develop an extensive method of farming, domesticate animals for food, and trade with Egypt. The A-Group highly sought trade items such as linen cloth, copper tools, stone bowls, beads, jewelry, and metal pigments used as face paint. Since the A-Group was the first to practice burying personal belongings with loved ones, their trading habits with Egypt were evident through what such items were found in their graves. The A-Group reached its climax during the Egyptian First Dynasty and ended at the beginning of the third millennium B.C. Over the next few centuries there was no archaeological evidence of a succeeding culture to the A-Group, and it is thought that only a few indigenous peoples lived on Nubian land. This occurrence is thought to be a result of deterioration of climate and effects of Egyptian exploitation in trade. At this time with the absence of significant Nubian civilization, the Egyptians established settlements further south in Nubia in order to extract resources from Nubian land more effectively. It would not be until the Egyptian Sixth Dynasty that a new part of Nubian civilization would settle into the Nile

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