For 10 points, what was this region of Africa between the First and Sixth Cataracts of the Nile in modern Sudan?
Former army doctor Giuseppe Ferlini destroyed over forty of this region's most famous structures in the 1840's to loot them of their gold. A city in this region has been called the "Birmingham" of its continent for its extensive ironworks and acquired a bust of Augustus during a raid on Syene. The Medjay people came from this region and served as scouts and a police force in a neighboring kingdom. King Kashta ruled a native state in this region from a city that had been founded by a foreign power; that city was (*) Napata. A kingdom in this region coordinated an attack on its northern neighbor with the Hyksos, and after its conquest by Thutmosis I, was ruled by Egypt until the rise of Kush. For 10 points, what was this region of Africa between the First and Sixth Cataracts of the Nile in modern Sudan?
Former army doctor Giuseppe Ferlini destroyed over forty of this region's most famous structures in the 1840's to loot them of their gold.
Nubia