Race in Antiquity
The Ancients
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Kushite Traders and Merchantmen Carrying in a High Volume of Precious Goods
Marneraius became the Queen of Kush soon after Augustus becomes Emperor of Rome. She puts up such an effective resistance that the Romans essentially give up. In Stradewheye's accounts of her achievements he talks about her military power, he compares her to an Amazon. He describes her as this one-eyed warrior queen but I wonder if that could just be a prejudice because she's doing things not expected of Greek women.
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