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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amun-Ra The Ultimate: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Barachit: [QB] Thanks you all for the answers. Thanks Ardo for the advice, now i will not bother the veterans of this forum with topics which were already discuss :D . [/QUOTE]There's no bother. This is a history website, every subjects have been discussed before and will be discussed again and again. It's not like sports or news websites where the main discussions is about the new things and game results happenings everyday. Historical subjects can always be discussed many times over in light of new research or new analysis of old data. In short, new threads are welcome on any historical subject. We always got new evidence, data and analysis about things discussed many years ago. [QUOTE] Amun-Ra The Ultimate, what you said make sense. Like i said earlier, the issue i raise is the lack of study on Kush and it's influence in the rest of Africa. But thanks to you guys i can see that some studies have been made on this subject. [/QUOTE]Of course, the influence question is a "if". Maybe, there's not a lot of study about the influence of Kush in the rest of Africa, because there is simply no such influence. You are right to say there hasn't been many studies on that subject. If we consider Kush to be the Kushite empires, starting with the Kushite speaking people (Kerma, Kush, Meroe, Napata) who eventualy built the pyramids and developed the Nilo-Saharan Meroitic language and script, who were then later on conquered by the Axumites kings and their Nubian speaker allies around 350 CE. I don't think any Kerma/Kushite cultural practices spread to other African populations like Akan, Zulu, and even Dinka, Maasai, Luo. There's indeed a lack of studies on that front. The question you're asking is: "Is there cultural traces of diffusion from the Kushite empire (or Ancient Egypt) toward other African populations?". For example, similar artifacts or cultural practices. [b]In my opinion, I don't think it is the case.[/b] If there is, it would be very limited. For example, we know headrests can be seen all over black African populations. Hinting at a common origin. But I don't think the common origin of headrests in Africa can be located during the Ancient Egyptian or the Kushite empires (including the early Kerma Kingdom). It probably predates those empires. The origin of the headrest cultural artifact, probably predates both the AEian and Kerma/Kushite empires. It probably originates at a time period when AEians and Kushites and most African populations were part of the same culture (either at the period of their common origin in Northeastern Africa or more likely later on in the Green Sahara period which covered the region from the Atlantic coast to the Nile). Maybe the best place to start to look for such cultural linkage would be in modern populations around modern Sudan and East Africa who may have kept some ancient Kushite traditions alive even if they received those themselves through diffusion (Nubians, Nuba, Dinka, Karrayyu, Afar, Oromo, etc), then try to look for it in other African populations (Akan, Yoruba, Zulu, Maasai, Luo, etc). But personally, I don't think there's evidence of such diffusion all over Africa. If any it would be limited to modern populations now living in eastern Africa around Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, etc who may have kept their ancestral traditions alive. Traditions which may be traced back to the Kushite empires (Kerma, Kush, etc). The Meroitic language itself, the language of the Kerma and Kushite people, disappeared without descent replaced by the Nubian language and people which originated from western Sudan and put an end to the Kushite Meroitic kingdom in league with the Axumites (Semitic speakers). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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