Post #1511227

2026-01-27 06:42 UTC

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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@callouscomic@lemmy.zip 2026-01-27 09:25

_gasp_ people migrate and stuff? _bewildered_

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@LwL@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 09:57

...the first search result being about a community that in its largest part started existing in 1923 is relevant to ancient history? I mean I don't know enough about ancient demographics to comment on whether there would feasibly be more than an extremely tiny minority of sub-saharan africans in ancient greece, but claiming someone didn't search and then providing an irrelevant search result has a certain irony to it.

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@moopet@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-27 10:22

So we're confident that black people did in fact greece.

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@Omgboom@lemmy.zip 2026-01-27 16:19

And to add on to your point about the Sahara being less hostile, it used to be filled with life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period This period ended right around when recorded history begins. Because the Sahara was not hostile it created a corridor for plants, and animals, and people to make an easy crossing into the levant and then further into Asia and Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_pump_theory

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@Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 14:50

It's on a long term cycle 50kyears ish where it goes from green to dry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell

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@Saapas@piefed.zip 2026-01-27 06:52

I said North Africans weren't black. Are you perhaps mistaking me for the person in the OP? Because you're seemingly going after points I've never made Your link is about modern Greece btw. Did you read it before posting?

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