Nubia Region

Little was known about Africa, which was called the Dark Continent because of the lack of knowledge of the place on the part of most Americans. Africa is the largest of the continents after Asia. The Western image of the continent is that it is filled with jungles and rain forests, but this is incorrect as only a small portion of the continent can be so classified. There is anthropological evidence that Africa may be the site where human beings first evolved:

It was in Africa that the first hominids appeared more than three million years ago. It was in Africa that the immediate ancestors of modern human beings--Homo sapiens--emerged for the first time about 40

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ian slaves, intervened in a dynastic dispute and made Dunqulah a satellite of Egypt (Metz, 1991, 11). The Christian kingdoms of ancient Nubia left behind a few superb murals only recently rescued from the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. The Christian kingdoms of Nubia arose largely through the missionary enterprise of monks from Constantinople. One of the more important of these was Julian, whose story has been told by another monk, John of Ephesus. It was a century later when Egypt was overrun by Muslim Arabs who thus cut off Nubia from the rest of the Christian world for some 600 years (Davidson, 1966, 39-40). The Nubian people of today are part of the Sudan and Egypt, and in the early part of this decade the Nubians were the second most significant Muslim group in the Sudan. They have as their homeland the Nile River valley in far northern Sudan and southern Egypt. There are also smaller groups speaking a related language and claiming a link with the Nile Nubians who have been given local names, such as the Birqid and the Meidab in Darfur State. Almost all the Nubians of the Nile speak Arabic as a second language, and some near Dunqulah have been largely arabized and are referred to as Dunqulah. In the mid-1960s, the
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