Question

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the Nubian Empire?
A) It was conquered by the Egyptians around 600 B.C.E
B) The military destroyed most Egyptian tombs after the conquest
C) It produced bigger and more elaborate pyramids than the Egyptian Empire
D) It conquered Egypt around 1100 B.C.E
E) It rejected most Egyptian cultural customs

Answer 1

Hint: The term Nubia comes from the Noba tribe, nomads who inhabited the area when the kingdom of Mero fell apart in the fourth century AD. The Noba spoke an ancestral Nilo-Saharan language to Old Nubian, which was primarily found in religious literature from the seventh to sixteenth centuries. Nubia was known as Kush before the fourth century and throughout ancient antiquity and was included under the term Ethiopia in Classical Greek use (Aethiopia).

Complete answer:
Nubia is a Nile river region comprising the area between the Nile's first cataract (just south of Aswan, Egypt) and the junction of the Blue and White Niles (near Khartoum, Sudan), or more precisely, Al Dabbah. The Kerma culture, which flourished from approximately 2500 BC until its conquest by the New Kingdom of Egypt under Pharaoh Thutmose I in 1500 BC, whose descendants controlled much of Nubia for the next 400 years, was the site of one of ancient Africa's oldest civilizations. Nubian Empire was conquered by the Egyptians around 600 B.C.E.

The Kingdom of Kush, which invaded Egypt in the ninth century BC under the reign of Piye and governed the nation as its 25th Dynasty, was one of Nubia's most powerful empires. Northern Nubia was conquered and annexed to Egypt by the Greeks and Romans from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. In the Greco-Roman world, this area was known as Dodekaschoinos.

An invasion from Ethiopia's Kingdom of Aksum and the emergence of three Christian kingdoms: Nobatia, Makuria, and Alodia preceded Kush's fall in the fourth century AD. Makuria and Alodia both lasted around a millennium. Their demise was precipitated not only by the division of Nubia in the sixteenth century, which saw the northern half taken by the Ottomans and the southern half by the Sennar sultanate but also by the fast Islamization and partly Arabization of the region.

Thus, the answer is option ‘A’ i.e, It was conquered by the Egyptians around 600 B.C.E.

Note: Nubia was split into three primary areas based on their position along the Nile: Upper, Middle, and Lower Nubia. Places downstream (further north) were referred to as "lower," while regions upstream were referred to as "upper" (further south). Within Egypt's present borders, Lower Nubia was located between the First and Second Cataracts, Middle Nubia was located between the Second and Third Cataracts, and Upper Nubia was located south of the Third Cataract.