Nations and Cultures
- Kingdom of Kush, an ancient nation in northeastern Africa comprising large areas within present-day Egypt and Sudan.
- Kassites, an ethnic group who controlled Mesopotamia during early biblical times (late 16th century to mid 12th century BC). Herodotus and other ancient Greek writers often confused them with the NE African Kush.
- Kushwaha or Kashshi, an agriculturist (peasant) people of India.
- Maurya founders of a very extensive empire of India and central Asia.
Read more about this topic: Kush
Famous quotes containing the words nations and/or cultures:
“The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.”
—Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914)
“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)