>Ancient Egypt ended when the Romans conquered it
Why do people think this? Ptolemaic Egypt was a Greek Kingdom ruled by Greeks, Ancient Egypt as we know it had been long gone for centuries by that point.
>>904665
Because people are uneducated?
Though really I think it's because after the Romans the Egyptians would never be ruled by another Pharaoh, and the old Egyptian bureaucracy was slowly eroded away until it had been replaced by a Roman one, and these were basically the last vestiges of the old Egyptian system we all know so well.
>Ptolemaic Egypt was a Greek Kingdom ruled by Greeks
The Greeks conquered Egypt and became it's ruling class but the culture of Egypt conquered the hearts of the Greeks. Ptolemaic kings of Egypt only lived like Greeks for a few generations before succumbing to the Egyptian style of living and ruling iirc.
>>904665
The Ptolemies dressed like Egyptians, committed incest like Egyptians, worshiped Egyptian gods, and walked like Egyptians.
>>904665
You say that as if every previous dynasty was native Egyptians. Egypt was ruled by foreigners several times before, and always absorbed them into Egyptian culture. The difference was that the Romans were the first ones who incorporated Egypt into a larger, long-lasting empire. With a few exceptions, Roman emperors did not adopt Egyptian customs and just treated Egypt like a bread basket.
>>904688
And they were thousands of years ahead of what actually is considered Ancient Egyptians.
Modern Romans aren't to be considered part of the ancient romans because they have a pontifex maximus, spend all day in the bath, and take every other day off for "religious reasons"
>>904701
>And they were thousands of years ahead of what actually is considered Ancient Egyptians.
>what actually is considered Ancient Egyptians
By whom, exactly? Because actual Classicists and Egyptologists would disagree.
>>904701
>And they were thousands of years ahead of what actually is considered Ancient Egyptians.
What exactly sets them apart from 'actual' Ancient Egyptians?
Mummification? The Ptolemies were mummified like all previous rulers. Mode of dress? The Ptolemies wore the traditional trapping of the Pharaoh. Religion? The Ptolemies consulted Egyptian priests, worshiped Egyptian gods, and were venerated as pseudo-deities by their Egyptian subjects like previous rulers. What argument do you have other than 'they lived later' and 'they wuz greeks!' (considering the Ptolemies weren't the first dynasty founded by invaders.)
>>904665
That Barbie-looking Cleopatra is unsettling me for some reason.
>>904678
That's because the Greeks were Egyptboos. It was a pale imitation of the Old and New Kingdoms.
>>904678
Anyone know what effect the ptolemaic military system of importing foreign greeks instead of recruiting soldiers from the native population had on the culture of egypt? Was greek culture viewed as martial rather than civil and how much osmosis was there between the immigrants and the natives? As far as I'm aware the culture of ptolemaic was a rich blend of egyptian and hellenic tradition but what this true for all parts of society?
>>904739
Go ahead and fap, we won't judge. Hell, that was my first thought when I saw that image.
>>904739
you get one exactly like her after you die
Most people are fully aware that the Ptolemies were Greeks LARPing as KANGZ
>>904665
Slightly related: What was the makeup of Egyptian armies between beating those Hypsos something guys in lower Egypt and the bronze age collapse? Was it like all chariots and some infantry or was there some set ratio?
we wuz KKKAAAANNGS NN SHIIET NIGGA W E BUILDA PYRAMIDS N SHIIET you FUCKIN crakka caveman WHITE PPL with YA FAKE CLEOPATRA WHITE WUSHING SHE WUZ A BEAUTIFULBLACK WIMMEN. DAS RITE! We wuz da kangs. Africuns wuz nevur cabemans, crackaz wuz. We brung civilizashun to yall crackaz
>>905304
/pol/ you are drunk again
>>905313
technically it's hotep, so black people /pol/
>>904665
Do some research, uneducated, facism loving, european brainwashed trash:
http://talc.site88.net/mega.htm
There was a golden age, right before our time. Even "white society" can't rebuild thinks called "megalithic".
its funny how you can call your society superior, white people have a long list of diseases, lifetime only 60 - 70 years in average. People in that time lived much longer and you know why: Because they genes are more diverse. Inbreeding will shorten your dna sequence, means your body resistances fall dramatically. Your "pure race" argument destroyed, go back to /pol/ and suck brainwashed dicks.
>>904665
Probably because the Ptolemies tried to be Pharoahs, which is a valid enough argument to make them "Ancient" Egypt, considering most of the 25? Dynasties were basically one foreign family taking over from another foreign family, so being from Greece isn't a huge change.
I mean don't forget Egypt was ruled by Persians before Greeks, and even by Black Africans for a short while.
>>908281
No, dynasties were usually Egyptian, not foreign. Egypt only started getting conquered all the time after the collapse of the New Kingdom and the Libyan conquest in the 10th century BC, followed by the Nubians, followed by the Persians, followed by the Greeks, followed by the Romans.
But Alexander is the one who wiped out ancient Egyptian culture by Hellenising Egypt. After that it belonged to Greco-Roman civilisation.
>>904678
>but the culture of Egypt conquered the hearts of the Greeks.
Maybe the regalia of the Monarchs and certain laws that were in place, but the Egyptians were the ones who adopted Greek language, literature, etc.
To this day, the second largest city in Egypt is still Alexandria.
>>904739
Why does that dog look like David Duchovny?
>>905304
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtDBpMxa37o
