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49. The Dawn of Everything

Empire

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The Pyramids and a Scarab Beetles

Egypt established garrisons in low Anubia. What's now northern Sudan, which do seem to have been absolutely brutal places where slaves were kept and put in transit to Egypt. When you go around the Cairo Museum, you see those footstools, which have Nubians on them. And very clearly you have black Nubians as something you rest your feet on. You do, but you also have generations of Nubian pharaohs. The ancient Egyptians had ways of depicting people, which look a lot like our racial stereotypes.

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