Sudan is the largest country in Africa, and is one of the poorest. It is located in the northeastern part of the continent. It is mainly made up of two regional groups: an Arab African group in the north and the Nilotes in the south. It’s major ethnic groups of the north are the Kababish, a camel raising people; the Jaalin and Saiqiyya, who live along rivers ; the Nubians, who live along the northern Nile; the Nuba of the Kordufan Plateau; and the Fur in the west. In the south there is the Dinka, Anuak, Nuer, and Shilluck. The official language of Sudan is Arabic.
Its religious breakdown is 73% Islamic, 17%, The region lying south of the Sudan are without recorded history until the 19th century. In the northern regions known as Nubia, Egyptian economic and political ties can be dated back as far as 2750 B.C. The Nuba’s, who are the black Africans who’s homeland is Nubia, did not practice Christianity until about 500 B.C. The Arab conquer of the North Africa turned Egypt into a Mohammedan country, did not have the same affect in Nubia, the Muslims, though they frequently raided the country unable to hold it. Meanwhile Arabs of the Beni Omayya tribe had to begun to cross the Red Sea, and settled near the Blue Nile. More people from the same tribe continued to come over and intermarried with the black races of Nubia.
Arab influence over the Nubas was starting, and more and more Nubas were practicing Islamic religions. By the 15th century the Arabized Negro race known as the Fung, during that century had extended their rule over Nubia to the northern border of Sudan. This kingdom lasted into the 19th century. The Fung kingdom was overthrown by Egyptian forces, ordered by Mohhamed Ali. His main motive was to gain possession of the gold and precious stone mines that he thought were in Sudan. Having conquered Sudan the Egyptians set up a civil government, placing at the head a governor general, Kurshid Pash. The governor general had full unlimited power. Around this time Mohammed Ali got his hands on the trade routs of eastern Sudan.
The Term Paper on Ancient Sudan (Nubia)
Who are the Nubians? Nubians are people of northern Sudan and southern Egypt. Their history and traditions can be traced to the dawn of civilization. They settled first along the banks of the Nile from Aswan. Along the Nile, they developed one of the oldest and greatest civilizations in Africa until they lost their last kingdom five centuries ago. The Nubians remained as the main rivals to the ...
Egypt monopolized trade of Sudan, except slave trade, wich were raided for constantly. The successors of Ali, tried to make the country more profitable extending their conquests to the south, and set up trade posts along the Nile River. The control over trade ended in 1849, when Ali died. Slave raids continued, and in 1857 slavery was banned. It did not end and went on until more action was taken against it in1863.
