Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- lb:ancient.egypt [2025-04-30 17:34:17] – removed - external edit (Unknown date) 127.0.0.1
+++ lb:ancient.egypt [2025-04-30 17:34:18] (current) – ↷ Page moved from playground:ancient.egypt to lb:ancient.egypt ninjasr
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+====== Ancient Egypt ======
+Ancient Egypt refers to the [[playground:civilization]] that occupied the area around the Nile for thousands of years. Egypt is one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, beaten by the Mesopotamians and, interestingly, seemed to have remained shockingly static for almost all of its existence.\\
+‘Ancient’ Egypt ends, to my knowledge, sometime following Alexander's conquest. The civilization ended not long afterwards following the Roman conquest. Following that, Egypt first fell to Christianity, then to Islam. The latter also led to Arabization and the near-disappearance of a distinct Egyptian language. Though that language survives in the Coptic Christian((:fn:>Somewhat hilariously, a Czech documentary about civilizational collapse (more a preachy activist propaganda piece than a documentary) names the Coptics as the descendants of Egyptian civilization...implicitly suggesting that //all the other Egyptians// are //not// descendants of Egypt. Hilarious, but also not, since that can feed into various myths surrounding Egypt. You can argue this linguistically, but not really culturally or genetically.)) community.\\
+Though that isn't relevant. Ancient Egypt was something that interested me since I was a child because, surprise surprise, my family had an Usborne book about it. I had, unfortunately though, kinda forgotten about Egypt...until more recent events rekindled interest. I think it started with a documentary((:fn:>Yes, that Czech one.)) followed by a re-watch of //Prince of Egypt// which isn't really about Egypt, but whatever. From there I decided to look a little more into it. I am currently stuck in that piece of mind where I'm not actively looking into it, however...so that's where we'll leave it for now.