so when the greeks ruled egypt wouldnt an egyptian be egyptian-greek is that still true today !? like you would be part greek !? correct me if im wrong Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Nope, Egypt was just part of the Hellenistic (Greek) empire that Alexander the Great expanded!. They weren't ETHNICALLY Greek, and the Greeks from the Mediterranean didn't move to Egypt and inter-marry with the Egyptians!. Ex: If all the sudden China conquered the U!.S!.A!., we wouldn't be Asian! We'd just be Caucasian and be under Chinese rule!.Www@QuestionHome@Com When the Greeks conquered Egypt, they built their own city, Alexandria, which had a largely Greek population!. I expect there was some inter-marriage between Greeks and Egyptians, and their offspring would be egyptian-greeks!. Or greek-egyptians!. Alexandria was culturally the centre of the anceint world for a time!. It saw the world's first great library, the first poetry of a new kind and the first great literary scholars!.Www@QuestionHome@Com First, they weren't Greek!. The were Macedonian!. It's North of Greece!. They adopted a lot of Greek civilization, but had a lot of their own as well!. Second, only the rulers and initial army were Macedonian!. Ptolemy, one of Alexander's generals, took Greece after Alexander died!. He declared himself Pharaoh!. The army of occupation was quite small!. They married Egyptian women, per Alexander's orders!. Considering the numbers, their DNA was spread pretty thin over the gene pool!. As to Ptolemy's descendants!. The last one, Cleopatra and her children were all killed or committed suicide after loosing the battle of Actium to Augustus Caesar!. Rumor has it that one of her daughters by Mark Anthony (The Roman not the singer) married an Ethiopian prince but no proof exists to say one way or another!. If all that was not enough, the Islamic conquest of Egypt essentially replaced the ancient Egyptian stock with mostly Arab (Semitic) stock!. Let me put it this way!. If I were to buy the Kennedy compound in Massachusetts tomorrow, I could live there but I would not be a Kennedy!. The modern Egyptian has a similar relationship to the ancient Egyptians and their Macedonian rulers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com My take on this matter is the following!. Egyptians are and were Egyptians!. Just because the Greeks came and ruled the nation for a while it does not make Egyptians Greeks!. Unless, a Greek made babies with an Egypian, which subsequently would give a mix!. Hence, Egyptians remained their own entity before, during, and after Cleopatra!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Just because you are rulled by another countries this does not mean you are your rulers!. The Egyptians stayed Egyptians unless a Egyptian and a greek had a baby then they would be a "egyption-greek" as you put it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Egypt was one of Alexandre The Great of Macedonia's conquests like persia, Egypt then belongs to the Hellenistic empire (from Thracian, Illyrian and greek Ethny) but the ethny of egypt stayed constant Www@QuestionHome@Com The English royal house has been mostly German since 1715, yet the English people stayed English!.Www@QuestionHome@Com greeks are the sex!.Www@QuestionHome@Com NopeWww@QuestionHome@Com |