Full Kanem-Bornu civilization

[CivArmy s. 1994]

The files are:
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/Kanem-Bornu01.zip
http://www.civfanatics.net/downloads/civ3/graphics/Kanem-Bornu02.zip


Civilization: Kanem-Bornu
Bonuses: Commercial and Militaristic
Title and leader: Mai Idris-Alloma
Best/shunned government: Fascism (Monarchy) and Democracy
Aggression: 05 (much high)
Cultural group: Mid East
Noun: Kanuri-Bornu
Adjective: Kanuri-Bornu
Colors: Black (Zulu) and Brow (Russia)
UU: Tunisian Musketeer
Civilopedia entry: RACE_KANEM-BORNU

Cities:
Njima
Manan
Ngazargamu
Bornu
Wudi
Birni Kimi
Yamia
Birni Ngazargamu
N’Djaména
Yaounde
Niamey
Mao
Abeche
Koro Toro
Fada
Faya
Aozou
Sarh
Moundou
Kribi
Douala
Tiko
Nkongsamba
Bafoussam
Bamenda
Ngaoundéré
Garoua
Maroua
Birni Ngaouré
Tillabéri
Ayorou
Tabia
Loga
Tahoua
Madaoua
Abalak
Maradi
Tessaoua
Magaria
Zinder
Gouré
Tanout
Agadez
Arlit
Diffa
Maïne Soroa
Agadem
Bilma
Djado
Madama

Military leaders:
Dunama Dibbalemi
Mahamad Al-Kanemi
Omar Al-Kanemi
Rabah Fadlallah

Scientific ones:
Ali Gaji
Ibrahim
Umar ibn Idris

Civilopedia:
It is present and u can see it inside your Civilization 3.

Tunisian Musketeer, the UU:
Replaces Musketman, has two extra offensive points and cost 10 shields more. This unit was used to fight against other nations that were under Kanuri-Bornu control. This domination turned possible happen the slavery commerce between Europe and this African Empire.

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[Plotinus]

Excellent stuff. He's going straight into my scenario. I love the Industrial era - very imposing!

 

[Bjornlo]

This is very nice.
Excellent face. nicely done matching backgrounds. And a very cool UU.

 

[TopGun]

You know what? This one will go straight into my game... but not as Kanem-Bornu. I have the Carthaginians who already cover that part of Africa. Instead, this guy will represent Nubia/Sudan. I will still have to find a name for him as a leader, but his title is obvious: "Mahdi"!

Thx for thsi marvelous LH!

 

[TopGun]

Civilization: Nubia
Bonuses: Commercial and Militaristic
Title and leader: Mahdi Muhammad ibn Abdalla (MH)
Favored government: Fascism, Islamic Republic
Shunned government: Democracy
Aggression: 05 (high)
Cultural group: Mid East
Noun: Nubian
Adjective: Nubian
Colors: Black (Zulu) and Brown (Russia)
UU: Ansar Rider

Cities:
Kerma
Napata
Anibe
Pahora
Dongola
Soba
Faras
Talmis
Sebua
Amada
Korosko
Derr
Ibrim
Tosko
Feraik
Akshe
Serra
Buhen
Mirgisse
Semne
Kumne
Amara
Sedeinga
Soleb
Sesebi
Sai
Kawa
Nuri
Merowe
Zuma
Meroe
Musauwarat
Naga
Rauwijan
Shaheinab
Keili
Zakyab
Khartum
Kalabsha
Aksum
Omdurman
Karima
Atbara
Dabba
Kanda
Hayya
Derudeb
Bur Sudan
Salala
Suakin
Dunkunab
Halaib
Kassala
Khashm
Kirba
Kadaref
Mukatta
Kawz
Rajab
Wad Madani
Rusairis
Shuwak
Sannar
Sinja
Rufaya
Kutayna
Duwaim
Kusti
Rabak
Jabalain
Kallabat
Kurmuk
Duk Fadiat
Rank
Tungaru
Talawdi
Rashad
Dalami
Kadukli
Kurdud
Abyei
Mijlad
Gabras
Buram
Tullus
Nahas
Hufrat
Nyala
Fashir
Nuhud
Ubayyid
Kakmar
Safiya
Atrun
Maliha
Kutum
Mellit
Agalak
Kaka
Kodok
Malakal
Bentiu
Abwong
Nasir
Nyerol
Fangak
Mogogh
Paliogh
Ayod
Shambe
Kongor
Bor
Malik
Tombe
Mongalla
Juba
Ngangala
Torit
Kapoeta
Kajokaji
Nimule
Tambura
Mwolo
Rumbek
Yirol
Waw
Gossinga
Raga
Uwail

Military leaders:
Kashta
Piye
Taharka
Tantamani
Anlamani
Aspalta
Netekamani
Ismail al-Azhari
Ibrahim Abboud
Ahmad Mahjoub
Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiri
Suwar al-Dahab
al-Gizouli Defalla
Sadik al-Mahdi
Omar Hassan al-Bashir


Scientific ones:
???

 

[TopGun]

In ancient times Nubia was a kingdom closely associated with Ancient Egypt, and occasionally conquered by their more powerful northern neighbours. Nubia adopted many Egyptian practices such as their religion and the practice of building pyramids. The kingdom of Nubia survived longer than that of Egypt and was never annexed by the Romans. The Nubians did trade with the Romans, and were also a source of mercenaries.
In later Roman times, Nubia was divided into three kingdoms: northernmost was Nobatia between the first and second cataract of the Nile River, with its capital at Pachoras (modern day Faras); in the middle was Makuria, with its capital at (Old) Dongola; and southernmost was Aloda, with its capital at Soba (near Khartoum). King Silko of Nobatia crushed the Blemmyes, and recorded his victory in a Greek inscription carved in the wall of the temple of Talmis (modern Kalabsha) around AD 500.

While bishop Athanasius of Alexandria consecrated one Marcus as bishop of Philae before his death in 373, showing that Christianity had penetrated the region by the fourth century, John of Ephesus records that a Monophysite priest named Julian converted the king and his nobles of Nobatia around 545. John of Ephesus also writes that the kingdom of Alodia was converted around 569. However, John of Bisclorum records that the kingdom of Makuria was converted to Roman Catholicism the same year, suggesting that John of Ephesus might be mistaken. Further doubt is cast on John's testimony by an entry in the chronicle of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria Eutychius, which states that in 719 the church of Nubia transferred its allegiance from the Greek Orthodox to the Coptic Church.

Christianity eventually faded from Nubia. While there are records of a bishop at Qasr Ibrim in 1372, his see had come to include that located at Faras. It is also clear that the "Royal" church at Dongola had been converted to a mosque around 1350.

Many Nubians were forcibly resettled to make room for Lake Nasser after the construction of the dams at Aswan. Nubian villages can now be found north of Aswan on the west bank of the Nile and on Elephantine Island, and many Nubians live in large cities such as Cairo. There was also a civilization in Nubia that was called Kush.

 

[TopGun]

The first African civilization after Egypt was built by an Egyptianized people who lived between the Nile River's first and third cataracts and spoke Nilo-Saharan languages. This region around the first cataract, called Nubia, had been conquered and colonized by Egypt in the fourth millenium BC. Because of this, Egyptian civilization diffused southward and a new African kingdom was built up in the floodplain around the Nile's third cataract: the Kush. Their capital city was Kerma and it served as the major trading center for goods travelling north from the southern regions of Africa.

Kush attained its greatest power and cultural energy between 1700 and 1500 BC during the Third Intermediate period in Egypt. The domination of Egypt by the Hyksos allowed Kush to come out from under the hegemony of Egypt and flower as a culture; this period ended, however, when the New Kingdom kings, having thrown the Hyksos out of Egypt, reconquered Kush and brought it under Egyptian colonial rule.

However, when the New Kingdom collapsed in 1000 BC, Kush again arose as a major power by conquering all of Nubia. The conquest of upper Nubia, which had been in the hands of the Egyptians since the fourth millenium, gave to Kush wealthy gold mines.

Following the reassertion of Kush-ite independence in 1000 BC, the Kush-ites moved their capital city farther up the Nile to Napata. The Kush-ites by and large considered themselves to be Egyptians and the proper inheritors of the pharoanic titles and tradition. They organized their society along Egyptian lines, assumed all the Egyptian royal titles, and their architecture and art was based on Egyptian architectural and artistic models. Their pyramids were smaller and steeper and they introduced other innovations as well, but the Napatan culture does not on the surface appear much different than Egyptian culture.

The Kush-ites even invaded and conquered Egypt in a magnificent irony of history. The Napatan kings formed the twenty-fifth pharaonic dyansty in the eighth century; this dynasty came to an end with the Assyrian invasion of Egypt in the seventh century BC.

The Assyrians, and later the Persians, forced the Kush-ites to retreat farther south. This retreat south eventually closed off much of the contact that the Kush-ites had with Egypt, the Middle East, and Europe. When Napata was conquered in 591, the Kush-ites moved their capital to Meroe right in the heart of the Kush-ite kingdom. Because of their relative isolation from the Egyptian world, the Meroitic empire turned its attention to the sub-Saharan world. For most of its prosperous life, the Meroitic empire served as the middle term in the trade of African goods to northern Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. While it still continued the cultural traditions of pharoanic Egypt, the Meroites developed newer forms of culture and art because of their isolation from the northern kingdoms.

Many of these innovations occurred in the realm of government. Unlike pharoanic Egypt, the king ruled through a customary law that was established and interpreted by priests. The king was also elected, but he was elected from the royal family. As in Egypt, descent was reckoned through the mother's line. Eventually, however, this descent model produced a series of monarchs who were women, an innovation not seen in any other major civilization.

The Kush-ite religion closely resembled Egyptian religion. It was polytheistic and contained all the major Egyptian gods. Amon was the principal god, but as in Egyptian religion, Meroitic religion involved regional gods which were served as principal gods in their region. There are some non-Egyptian gods, such as a lion warrior god, which the Meroites probably derived from southern African cultures, but these gods were few.

The Meroitic Empire thrived throughout the last half of the first millenium BC. After three centuries of decline, it was finally defeated by the Nuba people. It's commercial importance was repalced by Aksum to the east.

 

[TopGun]

In the 7th century, Sudan was a collection of small, independent kingdoms and principalities. The oldest of these were Nubia south of the First Cataract of the Nile, the Makoritae at Old Dongola, and the kingdom of the Alodaei around Soba on the Blue Nile. The Makoritae and Nubians later merged to form the kingdom of al-Muqurra.

Islam came to Egypt in the 640s, and pressed southward; around 651 the governor raided as far south as Dongola, but appears to have had little effect. The area between the Nile and the Red Sea was a source of gold and emeralds, and Arab miners gradually moved in. Around the 970s an Egyptian envoy Ibn Sulaym went to Dongola and wrote an account afterwards; it is now our most important source for this period.

In 1820-21, Egypt conquered and unified the northern portion of the country. Historically, the pestilential swamps of the Suud discouraged expansion into the deeper south of the country. Although Egypt claimed all of the present Sudan during most of the 19th century, and established a province Equatoria in southern Sudan to further this aim, it was unable to establish effective control over the area, which remained an area of fragmented tribes subject to frequent attacks by slave raiders.

In 1881, a religious leader named Muhammad ibn Abdalla proclaimed himself the Mahdi, or the “expected one,” and began a religious crusade to unify the tribes in western and central Sudan. His followers took on the name “Ansars” (the followers) which they continue to use today and are associated with the single largest political grouping, the Umma Party, led by the descendant of the Mahdi, Sadiq al Mahdi. Taking advantage of conditions resulting from Ottoman-Egyptian exploitation and maladministration, the Mahdi led a nationalist revolt culminating in the fall of Khartoum in 1885. The Mahdi died shortly thereafter, but his state survived until overwhelmed by an Anglo-Egyptian force under Lord Kitchener in 1898. Sudan was proclaimed a condominium in 1899 under British-Egyptian administration. While maintaining the appearance of joint administration, the British Empire formulated policies, and supplied most of the top administrators.

In February 1953, the United Kingdom and Egypt concluded an agreement providing for Sudanese self-government and self-determination. The transitional period toward independence began with the inauguration of the first parliament in 1954. With the consent of the British and Egyptian Governments, Sudan achieved independence on 1 January, 1956, under a provisional constitution. The United States was among the first foreign powers to recognize the new state. However, the Arab-led Khartoum government reneged on promises to southerners to create a federal system, which led to a mutiny by southern army officers that sparked over 40 years of civil war (since 1955).

The civil war are characterized by successive military dictatorships trying to pacify the war-torn country. The ongoing civil war has displaced more than 4 million southerners. Some fled into southern cities, such as Juba; others trekked as far north as Khartoum and even into Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Egypt, and other neighboring countries. These people were unable to grow food or earn money to feed themselves, and malnutrition and starvation became widespread. The lack of investment in the south resulted as well in what international humanitarian organizations call a “lost generation” who lack educational opportunities, access to basic health care services, and little prospects for productive employment in the small and weak economies of the south or the north.

 

[CivArmy s. 1994]

thanks TopGun!
BTW, in case these civis were not done yet, I can do them in the future

 

[Plotinus]

I spotted a problem with the medieval era of the LH! Part of the background in the top left corner disappears at one point in the animation. Slightly disconcerting!

 

[CivArmy s. 1994]

I spotted a problem with the medieval era of the LH! Part of the background in the top left corner disappears at one point in the animation. Slightly disconcerting!

I will check this, thanks for advise me

 

[zulu9812]

I get a 404 error on the part 1 download

 

[CivArmy s. 1994]

I get a 404 error on the part 1 download

I uploaded again the missing file, problem solve I don't know why the file was missing BTW, thanks for advise me

 

[Plotinus]

The problem with the odd background - I think it's the perennial one of using too bright a white, so that it has transparency issues. You can probably solve it by toning down the colour in the palette. I tried to do this myself but I'm no good at manipulating flcs, or at least, I don't know how with the software I have!

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

Civilization: Nubia
Bonuses: Commercial and Militaristic
Title and leader: Mahdi Muhammad ibn Abdalla (MH)
Favored government: Fascism, Islamic Republic
Shunned government: Democracy
Aggression: 05 (high)
Cultural group: Mid East
Noun: Nubian
Adjective: Nubian
Colors: Black (Zulu) and Brown (Russia)
UU: Ansar Rider

I think "Archer of the Eyes" would work better as a UU. Nubians were also famous for their archery, which made them invaluable mercenaries to the ancient Egyptian army as well.

Here's a link mentioning them: http://www.arkamani.org/meroiticarusa/nubians_in_oldkingdom.htm