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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Oshun: [QB] Yes they predominated the forces, but they didn't make a sizable amount of the population of Egypt, even if they'd all lived in the Delta. By the 12th century (presumably BCE) 60% of the military was foreign. Ramses II's army at Kadesh would have counted 20,000. So about 12,000 would've likely been foreign. Compare to the demographics of Egypt. [IMG]https://s11.postimg.org/esnyjytkj/demographic_development_ae.png[/IMG] Even if we were to assume all the foreign military lived in the Delta, and they [b]all[/b] took Egyptian spouses, that would've only changed the population by 1%. It'd take a veeery long time to see the demographics of Egypt to change by just the military. In fact, it's not until the reign of Shoshenq according to the link that the military was of a considerable size. 600,000 people by then (and again how many of them were truly living in Egypt). I also must ask, even if they had been living in Egypt, how does this factor with the Delta becoming 20% more "SSA" from the Late Period to the Roman period? Would a combination of local southern Egyptians and Nubian soldiers/rulers bear explanation to this? The irony of it all is that 600,000 people by 900 BC and the population stats a few centuries prior reach 2.9 million. 600k would've been roughly 20% of the population. But then, that's still assuming all of the military was composed of Africans towards the south (it wasn't) and that all the military resided in the Egyptian Delta (they didn't). I presume a mixture of Southern Egyptian and Nubian influences. Just as it's important to remember the years of Near Eastern migration and rule from groups like the Cananites and Hyksos, it's also important to know that since 1,300 BC Nubians ruled Egypt for 400 years and were previously often hired as archers for a growing military that'd become increasingly reliant on foreigners. The problem going forward for many Eurocentric thinkers is going to be that Nubians and Southern Egyptians had been better representatives of predynastic and early dynastic Egypt and IIRC cluster together. As long as Eurocentrics can remain ignorant about this, they can continue the fantasy, I suppose. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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