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What was it like in the Kingdom of Kush?
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>>1350714
It was lit senpai
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nobody remembers because everyone was high xD
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It looked like an average Seth Rogan movie DUDE
>>1350714
Dude Kush lmao
>>1350714
You mean Canada?
>>1350714
It was like egypt but poorer and less relevant
>>1350714
Probably not too bad, the land is fertile and the high culture of Egypt had a long and lasting influence.
The real question is, what was life like for the Blemmyes?
>>1350842
Wtf are those
>>1350848
Those are Blemmyes, medieval Europeans thought they lived someplace near Prester John, who was the mythical Christian king of Ethiopia.
>>1350714
iz lit pham
>>1350861
Were they even sure about the Ethiopia thing? I remember hearing that lots of Christians just had an idea that it was some big oriental Christian kingdom that could just as well have been in India or China, just "over there in the East somewhere".
>>1350893
They picked Ethiopia because it was a fabulous and distant land, with no real contact with Europe since the time of the Greeks. Likewise they placed the cynocephalopodes in "India", another impossibly distant land about which only rumours were known.
>>1350893
The Prester John was where the specific moment or even person wanted it to be. The Prester John being the ethiopian king got popular because it's the one that fits better with the myth. But the mongol khan was also identified as the Prester John. Even Ismail, founder of Safavid Persia, got Prester John features in the writings of some europeans because he was fighting the turk peril and the writers didn't understand well the sunni/shia enmity.
>tfw you will never hail from a far and distant land
Why do we have to live in the post-discovery era?
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