Meroitically Speaking
February 19th 2011
I don't really remember the finer details, but the assignment - for my ninth-grade biology class, of all things - was to write a research paper on the impact of the environment on history. Being the nerdish student that I was, I of course wanted to find a topic of some obscurity. I somehow decided to tackle the decline of Kush, knowing next to nothing about the mysterious kingdom that had emer
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