Ancient African Kingdoms

Summary: The students should find information on the following:
- Flooding of the Nile River
- Pyramids, heiroglyphics, and ancient Egyptian gods
- The Kush city of Meroe
- Ancient Kushite gods and Kushite trade route
- Axum King Ezana and Axum language of Geez
- Christianity in ancient Ethiopia

Content Categories
Non-fiction books
- Casson, Lionel and the editors of Time-Life books. Ancient Egypt. Time-Life Books: Alexandria, VA, 1965. 932
- Cottrell, Leonard. Life Under the Pharaohs. Holt, Rinehart and Winston: New York, 1960. 932.2
- James, T.G.H. The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. Henry Z. Walck, Inc.: New York, 1972. 913.35
- Wilson, Colin. The Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites. DK Publishing, Inc.: New York, 1996. 291.3
- The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004. World Almanac Books: New York, 2004. R317.3

The following sources are in GALEBRONZE:
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lnoca_trinity
Password: LNOCA216; click on "Student Resources Bronze." copy each title and paste it in the search box
"Piankhi(c. 769 B.C. - 716 B.C.)," "King Erzana of Axum Invades Kush, 325;" "Ancient Civilizations in Africa, 3500 B.C. - 500 B.C." Discovering World History. Online Edition. Gale, 2003. Reproduced in Student Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 2004.

The following sources are in EBSCOhost:
INFOhio Electronic Resources for grades 7-12, click on "Ebscohost," then "grades 7-12," then "continue." Follow directions above for copying and pasting."
- "Stairways to Heaven." (cover story) by: Schultz, Stacey. US News & World Report, 6/30/2003.
- "Lessons of the Pryamids." by: Isler, Martin. World & I, June, 2002, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p74, 8p, 8c; 134 Issue 23, p56, 3p, 4c, 1bw
- "An Ancient Pyramid Scheme?" by: Dainow, Susannah. Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/20/2001, Vol. 47 Issue 45, pAg, 1/5p
- "The Star Pyramid Connection." by: Schilling, Govert. Mercury, July/August 2001, Vol. 30 Issue 4, p28, 4p, 1c
- "Why the Egyptians built the Pyramids." Skeptic, 2000, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p98, 1/2p
- "What did the Pyramid Symbolize?" Skeptic, 2000, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p99, 1/3p, 1bw
- "Earliest Egyptian Glyphs." by: Mitchell, Larkin. Archaeology, March/April 1999, Vol. 52 Issue2, p28, 2p, 1c
- "Demotic to the Rescue." by: Lobban Jr., Richard A. Calliope, October 2003, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p40, 1p, 1c
- "Kush." Early Civilizations, 1999, p22, 2p, 1 map, 1bw
- "Kush." Columbia Encyclopedia; (AN IXBX-Kush)
- "Ethiopia's decisive victory at Adowa." by: Blake, Greg. Military History. October, 1997, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p62, 7p, 3c, 6bw
- "Frumentius: Conversion to Christianity"
- "Saint Frumentis" Britannica Biography Collection

The following resources are on the Internet
- http://unx1.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Sudan.html
- http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=GEE
- http://www.civilization.ca/civil/egypt/egcgeo1e.html