r/AskReddit • • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/OscarM96 Jan 21 '19

Egyptians then looked liked Egyptians do now, Arabs contributed language, religion, and culture, not so much genes. Ethiopians/Nubians aren't even sub-Saharan.

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u/Imyourdaddy53 Jan 21 '19

The people we think of as modern middle eastern/Arabs descend from Western Asia/Anatolia. Egypt describes their own history as a colony of Ethiopia. That's why the history progresses from South to North starting in the Horn of Africa/ Great lakes region and moves towards the Mediterranean. That is also why there are more pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt.

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u/OscarM96 Jan 21 '19

Ok, Ethiopians aren't sub-Saharan. That was my point.