Post #1511226
2026-01-27 05:48 UTC
Replies (5)
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@GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 06:42
Oh fun history time! Especially a couple thousand years ago, the Sahara was far smaller, and far lest hostile to life. The last trees only died in the Sahara about 20 or 30 years ago. Caravans crossed regularly. On top of the very easy route from Sudan to Egypt, and the Greeks were *obsessed* with Egypt. Even the Bible talks about Nubians in Ancient Egypt, so if even that as a "source" knows about the well-documented reality that Sub-Saharan populations were in contact and well-known individuals present in North Africa and the Levant as far back as 5,000 years ago. I mean, did you not even *think* to search for this before spouting off? Literally the first search result for "did black people greece": Edit: meant to paste this link - my bad - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Greeks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Greeks
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@vpol@feddit.uk 2026-01-27 06:09
There were plenty of sub-Saharan African people in Ancient Greece.
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@ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2026-01-27 06:24
North Africans had trade routes going all the way into modern day Tanzania, and a big chunk of modern day Sudan used to be part of Ancient Egypt. The Iliad itself mentions people from Sudan.
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@Snowclone@lemmy.world 2026-01-28 04:01
they weren't white either. and black Africans were well known to all of Africa and the Mediterranean FAR further back than written history. Greeks aren't even white, as far as you want to use "white" as some kind of identification, it's useless other than as a racist concept to harm other people, but the most generous inclusions are pretty fucking difficult to include Greeks in. dark skin, woolly hair, blunt noses, a language distinctly outside European language roots. you got nothing.
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@NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2026-01-28 04:03
“How dare this work of fiction not be my interpretation of historically accurate?!”