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  2. Kingdom of Kush - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Kush (/ k ʊ Κƒ, k ʌ Κƒ /; Egyptian: π“Ž‘π“„Ώπ“ˆ™π“ˆ‰ kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXX Χους or ΑαΌ°θιοπΞ―α; Coptic: ⲉϭⲱϣ Ecōš; Hebrew: כּוּשׁ KΕ«š), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt.

  3. Kush (cannabis) - Wikipedia

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    The origins of Kush Cannabis are from landrace plants mainly in Afghanistan, Northern Pakistan and North-Western India [3] with the name coming from the Hindu Kush mountain range. "Hindu Kush" strains of Cannabis were taken to the United States in the mid-to-late 1970s and continue to be available there to the present day.

  4. History of cannabis - Wikipedia

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    Cannabis cultivation dates back at least 3000 years in Taiwan. [3] The history of cannabis and its usage by humans dates back to at least the third millennium BC in written history, and possibly as far back as the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8800–6500 BCE) based on archaeological evidence. For millennia, the plant has been valued for its use for ...

  5. Kush (satrapy) - Wikipedia

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    Kush (Old Persian: 𐎀𐎒𐏁𐎠𐎹) was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. [1] [2] The territory was conquered from the Kingdom of Kush. Herodotus mentioned an invasion of Kush by the Achaemenid ruler Cambyses II (c. 530 BC). By some accounts Cambyses succeeded in occupying the area between the first and second Nile cataract, however ...

  6. Saka - Wikipedia

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    the Sakaibiš tayaiy para Sugdam (𐎿𐎣𐎑𐎲𐎑𐏁 𐏐 𐎫𐎹𐎑𐎹 𐏐 𐎱𐎼 𐏐 𐎿𐎒πŽ₯𐎭𐎢) – "Saka who are beyond Sogdia", a term was used by Darius for the people who formed the north-eastern limits of his empire at the opposite end to the satrapy of Kush (the Ethiopians).

  7. List of monarchs of Kush - Wikipedia

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    Kushite royal pyramids in Meroë. The system of royal succession in the Kingdom of Kush is not well understood. [4] There are no known administrative documents or histories written by the Kushites themselves; [5] because very little of the royal genealogy can be reliably reconstructed, it is impossible to determine how the system functioned in theory and when or if it was ever broken. [6]

  8. One of Earth's oldest known plants takes center stage in ...

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    After a contentious five-hour public meeting, environmentalists advocates have persuaded Inland Empire officials to delay development of a project within 400 feet of one of the oldest known plants ...

  9. Etymology of cannabis - Wikipedia

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    The plant name cannabis is a Scythian word, [1] [2] [3] which loaned into Persian as kanab, then into Greek as κΞ¬νναβις (kánnabis) and subsequently into Latin as cannabis. [4] The ancient Greeks learned of the use of cannabis by observing Scythian funerals, during which cannabis was consumed. [2]