The Kush Empire was a trading power of their time. Their land was plentiful with natural resources, particularly iron. After being taught by the Assyrians how to smelt iron, they were able to trade with the Egyptians and other northern people. The northern people desperately needed iron and the other natural resources Kush was exporting, and the Kush people needed the manufactured goods, like textiles, that the other people were exporting. This cycle caused the Kush Empire to actively trade for 600 years. The trading improved the lives of all the common people involved in mining natural resources, but it hurt the people who were trying to manufacture goods in the country. While those people were trying to sell their goods, the rest of the country were buying from the other countries.
I gave the Kush Empire an A- in trading because they were an active trading center for over 600 years. However, I marked them down because their dependence on trading iron led to problems within other aspects of their economy, like manufacturing goods.
The thing i think is wrong about this is that you actually state in the reasoning that its all about trading i would have given it a B because those people that manufactured were not in the cycle and that drags down the economy.
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