I’m surprised you don’t already know that the Hollywood version of slaves toiling away, building the Pyramids is fantasy and not reality. Huh…
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/88439/Hawass-‘The-Great-Pyramids-were-not-built-by-slaves’
CAIRO - 9 June 2020: “Linking building the Great Pyramids to slavery is a comical thing to say,” replied Zahi Hawass to some English newspaper commentary.
Famed Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass said that the commentary of the English newspapers that links casting the statue of a slave trader in the river to the pyramids, supposing they were built by forced labor is a ridiculous matter.
Hawass explained that the pyramids were not built by forced labor and that the unveiling of the workers’ tombs, which were found under the foot of the pyramids, assures the entire world that the pyramids were not built by forced labor.
Hawass asserted that if the pyramids were built by forced labor, their tombs would not be built next to the pyramids.
Also, preparing the tombs for workers and caring about them in the after-life shows that the pyramids were built by workers who came through the large families in Upper Egypt and the Delta region. These families must have paid the workers and thus they paid taxes, according to Hawass.
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Pyramids? You mean grain storage silos?
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Oh yeah…forgot about that one!
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Easy to forget. It was over 20 years ago.
zantax
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Proves no such thing as it is entirely possible both slaves and skilled paid labor was involved.
bootz
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nobody is educated enough, so far
DMK
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Yes, people are. Some just don’t want to hear it.
Hawass, the regular on the Art Belle Show who has been trying to whitewash Egypt’s history for three decades now.
DougBH
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Well, if you aren’t at least as far left as the average CNN viewer, much of the media will consider you that. There is, of course, no “left wind”.
Some of American citizens forefathers came over in a boat.
A slave ship to be exact.
They came here to become slaves.
Now let’s talk about oppression.
It runs in all shapes and sizes.
Allan
bootz
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YES those that were captured by rival tribes and sold as slaves by their own race. And some of those native Americans that were slaves to other tribes. and some that were expelled from their homelands and arrived as servants but they were white.
Obviously slavery was invented in ?
Doesn’t matter. People bought black people via auction process.
Those black citizens forefathers were oppressed by other citizens.
Sure some like myself whose forefathers came from Europe. Thought America was a great idea and immigrated.but the were other forefathers with a completely different experience who were forced to immigrate.
Allan
bootz
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They did that with Indians and whites as well.
Nelson Mandela was oppressed and yet he became the President of South Africa. And fools today want to complain about slavery instead of talk about Obama. Or any other hero like Robert F Smith.
bootz
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in the world of what is known very few will achieve 1% knowledge. if you take the combined knowledge of all on this forum you might get to 5% of history, less in you add philosophy. Hence a forum like this is better suited to sharing information than debating topics.