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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sundjata: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Truthcentric: [qb] I do wonder about the likening of northern Indians to Egyptians by some Roman writers. Are there any people in northern India who are dark-skinned enough to be called "black"? [/qb][/QUOTE]al-Takuri explained the color hierarchy used in that description already. The world was divided into "Northerners" and "Southerners", "lightest" to "darkest" respectively. In the southern zone I recall clumsily (and I will edit my post after I look it up) that the aethiopians were darkest, then Indians, then Egyptians, then moors, then Berbers (I'm sure I'm a bit off but you get the idea). And then for the "light-skinned" peoples of the world you had the darkest medits all the way to the lightest Nords. So the quote is very similar to the Galen quote cass tried to distort in that Egyptians were counted among the dark peoples. Other citations also compared Indians to aethiopians and actually calling them eastern Ethiopians so going by skin complexion alone, yes, some would have been just as "black" as the "burnt-faces" or "aethiopians" of Africa. from my old blog: [QUOTE] Opponents often cite quotes from Strabo and Arrian who gave descriptions seemingly comparing Egyptians to Northern Indians and attributing to them a "medium" complexion. These same opponents omit the fact as part of their reasoning that Arrian in the same breath compared Ethiopians to Indians, beginning by stating that "[i]The appearance of the inhabitants is also not very different in India and Ethiopia[/i]". The comparisons between Egyptians-Northern Indians and Ethiopians-southern Indians were then made but it is clear given the context that the ancient authors are describing subtle nuances (as we know southern Indians to be similar in appearance and ancestry to their northern neighbors, as are modern Upper Egyptians and Northern Sudanese). Somehow these "pesky" Ethiopians seem always to be part of the equation.[/QUOTE]Also recall that by this time (Roman era) people like Achilles Tatius were already describing the men of the delta as "half-castes", but still "blackish" like Ethiopians. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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