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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rahotep101: [QB] I wouldn't like that, but I have come across Afrocentrists claiming the Ancient Britons/Celts/Vikings/Anglo Saxons were black, just as I've seen actual Egyptians getting undeserved abuse and being called impostors and squatters in a black land. Afrocentrists seem to be forever exaggerating the impact of migration to Egypt from Eurasia, and ignoring the fact that there was a more than equivalent amount of movement from black Africa over the same period. Hence the need to remind people that migration potentially enhanced rather than diluted the African component of Egypt's makeup. I've never claimed that Egypt was populated by Europeans, but the discipline of Egyptology owes much to Europeans, often dedicated scholars who are unjustly accused of covering up dicoveries or vandalizing statues, or forging artifacts & rewrite history. This is a wholly unfounded conspiracy theory. Afrocentrics sometimes also do presume to take credit for all Europe's achievements, by promoting the myth that ancient Egypt was 'black African' (as if Africa was homogenous race) and that the Greeks derived all their arts and sciences from Egypt, and that all Europe's advances are founded on Egypt via Greece. Some of them also say the Jews were black. I think Dr Hawass went too far saying that Egyptian civilization had 'no black element', bit his definition of black is clearly different from that of others. Most Egyptians apparently do not and did not identify themselves as black Africans, however oursiders saw them. They clearly differentiated themselves from the Nubians. The 25th dynasty was set apart as it remained a dynasty of foreign occupiers. They retained their Nubian base and were buried in Nubia. As rulers of their former masters, the Nubians were perhaps kinder to Egypt than Egypt had the right to expect, but they did not naturalize, and there was no merging of the kingdoms. Egyptian Nubians are still very much an ethnic and cultural group unto themseves. I think you underplay the boost that contact with the other cultures of the fertile Crescent gave to Egypt when it was a fledgling civilization. This contact with other advanced civilizations helped to propel Egypt to greatness while Nubia played catch-up. While Egypt has an African context, it also has a Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern one. It was connected to trade in the Eastern Med and across Aisa as far as India and Afghanistan. Many of the various capitals were in the north, Sakkara, Memphis, Tanis, Sais, Avaris, Pi Ramses, Alexandria etc, and there is no particular reason to think they were not built by lower Egyptians. They were a stone's throw from Sinai and the Holy Land, but a long way from the heart of Africa. Naturally I would love to see Egypt becoming an egalitarian secular democracy (not that Egyptians have ever done democracy or secularism in the past) with all creeds and colours receiving equal rights and respect and credit for their achievements. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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