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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Orionix: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Wally: [b]Excellent Topic: [b]The most ridiculous Ancient Egypt Fantasies [/b] Excellent Example: The fantasy here is due to seeing things from the Western European ideology and its practice of chattel slavery. It transposes memories of say, the old southern plantations in the United States or the ancient Roman galleys, into a distinctly African reality. It also indicates an ignorance of what the institution of human slavery actually is: Slavery is an [b]economic system[/b]. Kemet, unlike ancient Greece and Rome, [b]never[/b] had an economic system based on slave labor. It was Kemetian paid workers who raised the mighty pyramids along the Nile river and most of the great works created by Kemetian civilization. Contrary to Biblical [b]mythology[/b], the labors of Asiatic prisoners of war was never that significant. In fact, they did not even exist during the Pyramid Age. The Ancient Egyptian word for 'slave' or 'servant' - hm also becomes 'hamu' or craftsman or artisan. It signifies in Kemetian ideology, the respectability of the Kemetian Worker/servant/slave class. This ideology and practice also existed in ancient Kush, Mali, Ghana, Songhai, Ashanti, and so on...[/B][/QUOTE] Slavery in that time was different. It was not propery or chattel slavery. I don't know how the Egyptians treated foreigners. According to what i read Asians were less assimilated in Egypt than the Nubians. Between the 12 and 13 dynasties something happenned. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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