1500 BCE –
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Early History
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- Known to Egyptians as Kush
- Later, the Latin name Nubia
- c 527 Justinian made Nubia a stronghold of Christianity
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1500 – 1889
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Islamic Kingdoms
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- 1504 Fung founded the kingdom of Sennar
- 1820 Ottoman rule
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1899 – 1955
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British Rule
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- Catholic Missionaries began work
- Also Anglicans and Swedish Pentacostals
- British limited missionary work to southern Sudan
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1956 –
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Independence
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- 1962 – First civil war in south
- 1964 – All foreign missionaries evicted
- 1983 – Sharia Law imposed
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1983 –
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Second Civil War
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- Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) led by John Garang revolted in South
- North sent armed forces south to burn crops and bomb villages
- Resulting famine displaced 4 million people
- Murdered Christian pastors and priests
- Between 14,000 and 200,000 women and children taken into slavery
- Genocide in Darfur region
- 2005 – John Garang killed in plane crash
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2011 –
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South attains independence
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- Civil wars continued to plague South Sudan
- 2019 – Military topples Bashir in coup
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