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Race in Antiquity

The Ancients

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What Are the Attitudes of the Kishites?

The Kishites were open about mixing with people and using their skills to benefit them. This is long before for example you have the advent of nations like modern nationalism which is some people would argue is the 19th century phenomenon. The sense of borders, this idea that a certain group of people who look a certain way emerged in a certain place and there's never been any mixing doesn't come in until much later. I mean none of that stuff applies.

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