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The Kingdom of Kush (/ k Κ Κ, k Κ Κ /; Egyptian: π‘πΏππ kκ£š, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXX Χους or ΑαΌ°θιοπΞ―α; Coptic: β²Οβ²±Ο£ EcΕš; Hebrew: ΧΦΌΧΦΌΧ©Χ 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.
Kush generally refers to a pure or hybrid Cannabis indica strain. [1] Pure C. indica strains include Afghan Kush, Hindu Kush, Green Kush, and Purple Kush. [1] Hybrid strains of C. indica include Blueberry Kush and Golden Jamaican Kush. [1] The term "kush" is now also used as a slang word for cannabis. [2]
Kush (Old Persian: π€π’ππ πΉ) 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 ...
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 ...
the Sakaibiš tayaiy para Sugdam (πΏπ£π‘π²π‘π π π«πΉπ‘πΉ π π±πΌ π πΏπ’π₯ππΆ) – "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).
The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXV, alternatively 25th Dynasty or Dynasty 25), also known as the Nubian Dynasty, the Kushite Empire, the Black Pharaohs, [2] [3] or the Napatans, after their capital Napata, [4] was the last dynasty of the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt that occurred after the Kushite invasion.
Cannabis plants produce a unique family of terpeno-phenolic compounds called cannabinoids, some of which produce the "high" which may be experienced from consuming marijuana. There are 483 identifiable chemical constituents known to exist in the cannabis plant, [53] and at least 85 different cannabinoids have been isolated from the plant. [54]
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]