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To: SunkenCiv

The ancient world was devoid of racism. At the time of Piye’s historic conquest, the fact that his skin was dark was irrelevant. Artwork from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome shows a clear awareness of racial features and skin tone, but there is little evidence that darker skin was seen as a sign of inferiority. Only after the European powers colonized Africa in the 19th century did Western scholars pay attention to the color of the Nubians’ skin, to uncharitable effect.


yep........................


7 posted on 01/21/2008 12:15:47 PM PST by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

The Archaeoblogger (which is where I picked up the link, I think, unless it was on the Archaeology mag website) said something similar, and I agree with both of you.

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6369349&postID=2313029797959435862


8 posted on 01/21/2008 12:28:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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To: PeterPrinciple

And there was no slavery in the ancient world. It was just that the check for those wages was lost in the mail...


9 posted on 01/21/2008 12:28:27 PM PST by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: PeterPrinciple

The ancient world was violently ethnocentric (in multiple directions). Everybody thought his own group was superior and should dominate everybody else.

But there was little or no connecting of this idea to skin color as an especially important factor. No idea of “race” in the modern sense. And especially there was no concept that one race was “supposed” to be enslaved to another. Slavery in the ancient world had little connection to ethnicity at all.


13 posted on 01/21/2008 12:46:36 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: PeterPrinciple; SunkenCiv
I suspect the Egyptian rulers were much more concerned about being dethroned and having their wealth taken than the color of the Nubians.
14 posted on 01/21/2008 12:48:57 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: PeterPrinciple
Do you believe ancient peoples viewed dark skin 'uncharitably?'

circa 500 BC.

16 posted on 01/21/2008 4:32:00 PM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: PeterPrinciple
To be fair to National Geographic, they also wrote:
"Revisiting that golden age in the African desert does little to advance the case of Afrocentric Egyptologists, who argue that all ancient Egyptians, from King Tut to Cleopatra, were black Africans."

And a lot of racism, particularly the extremely nasty forms, is traceable to recent history. Going along with what another freeper typed, ancient peoples *appear* to have done a decent job of separating ethnicity from race.

18 posted on 01/21/2008 4:42:00 PM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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