p2ch3states

Name: Angela Quintero-Corine

 * **Themes** || **How does this theme apply to your civilization?** ||
 * Political Structures and forms of governance || * Egyptian ruler, Menes gathered all of the Nile Kingdoms together and turned them into one big united kingdom. ||
 * Empires ||  ||
 * Nations and nationalism || * Sudan's people were able to start building small states for themselves.
 * Egypt's and Nubia's states were built and started from their small agricultural villages.
 * Areas close to the Nile River began to become kingdoms and/or states. ||
 * Revolts and revolutions || * Political and economic competition often led to small wars between the Nile Kingdoms.
 * Some kingdoms, which overpowered their neighboring states, took over those states and began to control their territories. Thus, expanding their power to take over more close states.
 * Egypt eventually dominated over lower Nubia.
 * In about the eighth century the new kingdom of Kush was so powerful that they invaded Epypt. ||
 * Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations || * By about 2500 B.C.E. the powerful kingdom of Kush was established.
 * Nubians organized a new kingdom of Kush, who's capital was named Napata. ||