Asclepias
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Because he had probably never seen a real jungle bunny before, obviously. The whole swathe of North Africa were "black" to the Greeks. They still refer to them as such.FFS, the ancient Egyptians were not jungle bunnies, or were they white in the sense your racist ass thinks. they were Mediterraneans, not that different than the same of today. Sub-Saharans had a very elementaryl modicum of civilization anywhere or they would not have been enslaved. Even today, they are the lowest underclass of anywhere they have existed.
Get over it!
Dont get bent out of shape.
Repeating the same thing is not going to make it more believeable. Your own historians say you are a liar. Why would Herodotus call them Black if they were Mediterranean like him?
Herodotus, a Greek writer in the 5th century B.C. claims that "the people of Colchis must be Egyptians because like them they are black-skinned and wooly-haired." (History, Book II.) The interesting thing about what Herodotus wrote is that had he believed the Egyptians to be any other color than black like other Africans he could have chosen other Greek words than the one he chose. His word is melaschroes, black-skinned. If Herodotus thought the Egyptians were white he would have used leucochroes. Had they been simply brown, like so many African Americans, he may have used phrenychroes, but he chose the word melaschroes. This word comes from the same root as Melanesia, the black island, or melanite, a black garnet. The ancient Greek use of "melas" was precise. Egypt is in Africa. Why shouldn't the ancient Egyptians be anything other than black?
"Arapakis" (little or lesser Arab) is the pejorative for sub-Saharan Africans today. "Mavros", which means black is considered more politically correct.
We are not talking about today. We are talking about when the Greek historian Herodotus called the Egyptians Black with woolly hair. There was no PC back then. Now we also know the Greeks have super saharan admixture as well. Meaning they also had some Black blood. If the distinction was made that the Egyptians were Black then they must have been very dark indeed.
Greeks are found to have a substantial relatedness to sub-Saharan (Ethiopian) people, which separate them from other Mediterranean groups. Both Greeks and Ethiopians share quasi-specific DRB1 alleles, such as *0305, *0307, *0411, *0413, *0416, *0417, *0420, *1110, *1112, *1304 and *1310. Genetic distances are closer between Greeks and Ethiopian/sub-Saharan groups than to any other Mediterranean group and finally Greeks cluster with Ethiopians/sub-Saharans in both neighbour joining dendrograms and correspondence analyses. The time period when these relationships might have occurred was ancient but uncertain and might be related to the displacement of Egyptian-Ethiopian people living in pharaonic Egypt.