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By Donald B. Redford
In From Slave to Pharaoh, famous Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over millennia of complicated social and cultural interactions among Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that lay to the south of Egypt. those interactions ended in the expulsion of the black Kushite pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty in 671 B.C. through an invading Assyrian army.
Redford lines the advance of Egyptian perceptions of race as their dominance over the darker-skinned peoples of Nubia and the Sudan grew, exploring the cultural development of spatial and non secular barriers among Egypt and different African peoples. Redford specializes in the function of racial id within the formula of imperial strength in Egypt and the legitimization of its sphere of impression, and he highlights the dichotomy among the Egyptians' remedy of the black Africans it deemed enemies and of these dwelling inside Egyptian society. He additionally describes the variety of responses―from resistance to assimilation―of subjugated Nubians and Sudanese to their lack of self-determination. certainly, by the point of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, the tradition of the Kushite kings who conquered Egypt within the past due 8th century B.C. used to be completely Egyptian itself.
Moving past contemporary debates among Afrocentrists and their critics over the racial features of Egyptian civilization, From Slave to Pharaoh unearths the genuine complexity of race, identification, and gear in Egypt as documented via surviving texts and artifacts, whereas even as delivering a compelling account of warfare, conquest, and tradition within the historical world.
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9 Situated on the east bank, Kerma enjoyed the protection of a cataract and a long buffer of arid valley against the Egyptian presence to the north. The wide _oodplain on which it was built offered a food source that could make the community largely self-sustaining. , was the rise of what has been called “the ~rst city” in Sudanese history, more than sixty acres in extent, with perhaps two thousand inhabitants. 10 The variation in size and appointments of the mud-brick houses as well as the graves suggests a strati~ed society with differentiation of occupation and gradations of power and income.
20 The campaign of Amenophis III’s ~fth year21 was prominently celebrated by rock tableaux at Aswan and later gave rise to a legend; but the textual record is vague and bombastic. The king 39 FROM SLAVE TO PHARAOH Fig. 9. Nubians bringing tribute to Pharaoh. c. 23 Many of the “campaigns” in the later New Kingdom must have been thinly disguised forays in search of booty and slaves. —and 145 captives were brought back as slaves along with 361 head of cattle. 26 By Ramesses II’s reign the lively scene of Pharaoh charging into a mass of _eeing Nubians had become a generic tableau (~g.
95 No sooner had Egypt reoccupied the south than shrines to the pharaonic genius began to arise, ~rst in the repeopled settlements of the Middle Kingdom and later as nuclei of new towns. ” Most of the temples were constructed Fig. 12. c. 47 Fig. 13. c. Fig. 14. c. THE EGYPTIAN EMPIRE IN KUSH under the Eighteenth Dynasty, beginning with a vengeance under Thutmose III96 and continuing under Amenophis II,97 Amenophis III (see ~g. 100 By the Nineteenth Dynasty, though new colonists and towns were not being implanted in the south, temple building continued at an astonishing rate.