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[QUOTE]Originally posted by sudanese: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Antalas: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sudanese: [qb] The term Aethiopia wasn't just a general description for dark skin populations; it seems to have been specifically used on the Kushites with their capital (Meroe) featuring in the description; the Nubae (Nubians) were distinguished from the Aithiopians of Meroe by Strabo. [QUOTE] On the left of the course of the Nile live Nubae in Libya, a populous nation. They begin from Meroe, and extend as far as the bends (of the river). They are not subject to the Ethiopians, but live independently, being distributed into several sovereignties.(Strabo, Geography 17.1.2.) [/QUOTE]The Greco-Roman writers seem to have recognised a complexion gradient in the Nile Valley in which the Aithiopians (Kushites) were the darkest; and the Lower Nubians were "partly moreso" than the Egyptians. [QUOTE]It was a market place to which the Ethiopians bring all the products of their country; and the Egyptians in their turn take them all away and bring to the same spot their own wares of equal value, so bartering what they have got for what they have not.[b]Now the inhabitants of the marches (Nubian/Egyptians border) are not yet fully black but are half-breeds in matter of color, for they are partly not so black as the Ethiopians, yet partly more so than the Egyptians.” Flavius Philostratus: c.170 to c.247, [/b] [/QUOTE][/qb][/QUOTE]You shouldn't rely on one source only since they often tend to contradict themselves or depending on the era can have different meanings but it's generally accepted that Aethiopians in Africa refer to dark-skinned populations not one specific group. [/qb][/QUOTE]You could be right, but it still doesn't explain why a Greco-Roman writer (contemporary to the time) recognised a complexion gradient in which the Lower Nubians were only "partly more so" black than the Egyptians. There would have been no need to say this if the Egyptians were just like Coastal Maghrebis. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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