>
> No population on earth, except those who have
> been
> relatively isolated from other people, have
> maintained
> the same overall look and features over the last 3
> to
> 5,000 years in any given place. Of course in
> places
> like Europe and Asia, features are not marked
> mainly by
> things like skin color, but in North Africa, it is
> one
> of the things that has varied over time.
WRONG.
Native Americans have stayed the same, as have many other peoples. The AE mummies seem to show the same range of features currently seen in that population.
>
> What is a Nubian? There were no 'Nubians' in
> dynastic Egypt.
> That term as a reference to an ethnic group came
> after dynastic Egypt
> ceased to exist. The ancient Egyptians were
> Africans who mainly originated
> in Africa among other Africans to the South and
> West. Therefore dark skin
> had everything to do with them being Africans and
> descended from Africans
> and nothing to do with "Nubians".
What about Libyans? Aren't THEY African? Or don't they count?
> THerefore, modern attempts to separate Egypt from
> its place in Africa as some
> "special" development separate and distinct from
> the cultures that preceded it,
> is more of a modern political and social theory
> than any sort of scientific fact.
> They were all part of a Nile Valley complex of
> civilizations and cultures
> in the same way that the peoples and cultures
> along the Tigris and Euphrates are part
> of the Mesopotamian complex of civilization and
> culture.
Funny--the AE clearly saw themselves as different from other African peoples.
They went to amazing artistic lenthgs to make this difference clear.
> Classical Greece was dead and gone by the time
> this influence
> reached the rest of Europe.
Which influence is that?
Or are you forgetting about Rome? easy to do, I guess, since it was never more than a
minor city-state.
Therefore, Greece is
> not "Nordic" or
> NorthWestern European.
No one said that it was. Unless you can't tell European cultures apart.
In fact, Greece and its
> classical culture
> owes more to its geography along the
> Mediterranean, as a crossroads
> of ancient cultures, more than being in Europe.
> However, that still
> does not mean Greece isn't in Europe just because
> most Europeans were
> not as advanced as the Greeks in the times of the
> Greeks.
No, BUT--and this is what you seem to be misunderstanding--Greece's
influence over the rest of Europe is indisputable.
AE did NOT have anywhere near that kind of influence in Africa. Its main areas
of influence were the Mediterranean cultures.
Geography has nothing to do with it.
