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[–]NobodyMinusMikhalko Yuryevich did nothing wrong 29ポイント30ポイント  (46子コメント)

I'm not really going to write out a long response, because, quite frankly, I don't really feel like it. I will just throw out that your idea that African implies black is a little misguided. If we're going to shoehorn ancient civilizations into our relatively modern framework of race, the fact that the civilization is in Africa in no way implies that the people who founded it were black or originally came from Africa. It's not like Africa was or is a homogenously black continent, and it's really hard to say what ethnic groups were living in northwest Africa at the time. Past that, it is entirely possible that Egypt was settled by people from the far older civilizations immediately from the north, who were probably not black.

Beyond that, Constantin François de Chassebœuf went to Egypt in 1782, which was well before Napoleon travelled there, and he was also certainly far from the first European to go to Ottoman Egypt. It's also worth noting that 18th century orientalists are generally not good sources, especially when they're making generalizations about ancient Egypt based on a tour of the (at the time) contemporary version of the country.