| | A Kushite is someone descended from Ham, one of the sons of Noah. Kush was the | | A Kushite is someone descended from Ham, one of the sons of Noah. Kush was the |
| − | grandson of [[Noah]]. The word is sometimes associated with the peoples in the [[Horn of Africa]]. Kush, however, is an ancient country in the middle Nile Valley. [[Pharao]] [[Thutmosis]] I is known to have waged war against it around 1525 b.C.<ref>Steindorff, G., K. Seele. When Egypt Ruled the East, Chicago, 1942 </ref>. | + | grandson of [[Noah]]. The word is sometimes associated with the peoples in the [[Horn of Africa]]. [[Kush]], however, is an ancient country in the middle Nile Valley. [[Pharao]] [[Thutmosis]] I is known to have waged war against it around 1525 b.C.<ref>Steindorff, G., K. Seele. When Egypt Ruled the East, Chicago, 1942 </ref>. |