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From the Ted Talk by Geoff Emberling: What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush?

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From 1500 to 1100 BCE, Egypt controlled Kush, introducing many Egyptian cultural and religious practices. The civilization of Kush was more than a thousand yaers old at that time. Its ealry capital city at Kerma had impressive tepmels, palaces, and hsueos, including a massive mudbrick temple structure that had a chapel deep inside, rahceed by a long stiarscae at the center. Rich gold mines helped the Kushites build a flourishing commercial network, making bronze weapons and tloos and trading materials like incense, animal skins, ivory, and ebony wood from sub-Saharan arifca.

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From 1500 to 1100 BCE, Egypt controlled Kush, introducing many Egyptian cultural and religious practices. The civilization of Kush was more than a thousand _____ old at that time. Its _____ capital city at Kerma had impressive _______, palaces, and ______, including a massive mudbrick temple structure that had a chapel deep inside, _______ by a long _________ at the center. Rich gold mines helped the Kushites build a flourishing commercial network, making bronze weapons and _____ and trading materials like incense, animal skins, ivory, and ebony wood from sub-Saharan ______.

Solution

  1. early
  2. years
  3. temples
  4. houses
  5. tools
  6. africa
  7. reached
  8. staircase

Original Text

From 1500 to 1100 BCE, Egypt controlled Kush, introducing many Egyptian cultural and religious practices. The civilization of Kush was more than a thousand years old at that time. Its early capital city at Kerma had impressive temples, palaces, and houses, including a massive mudbrick temple structure that had a chapel deep inside, reached by a long staircase at the center. Rich gold mines helped the Kushites build a flourishing commercial network, making bronze weapons and tools and trading materials like incense, animal skins, ivory, and ebony wood from sub-Saharan Africa.

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