FunK-3-FivE said:
Lets see...
This has always been arguable, but I would hold that most historians, archaeologists put the first organized civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates.
What I marked in bold is an overstatement, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt that it's debatable.. Don't even know why I entertained that, it's irrelevant anyways..
FunK-3-FivE said:
Okay... as if I didn't know. The Sumerian (city-states of Mesopotamia) held slaves captured from other weaker tribes. This is common historical knowledge.
What does this have to do with the Trans-Atlantic slave trade? Is there some type of link between P.O.W's in the ancient world and African Americans?
FunK-3-FivE said:
All of them, except Mark Lehner. The only reason Lehner theorizes the pyramids were not built by slaves is because of his discovery of a cemetery for the workers (who would have had to been privileged to be buried in a cemetery), however this could only account for a portion of the workers required.
You fool, Zahi Hawass, the leading authority on Ancient Egypt furiously denies such outdated claims, as did the late Frank Yurco and all other 21rst century classicists/Egyptologists. The great pyramid especially was commissioned under Khufu over a 20 year period, and workers were buried in elaborate grave sites with in miles of the Giza Plateau. This courtesy indeed would not of been reserved for prisoners, Lehner was right on that. These people were hard workers of the agricultural community and any other assumption doesn't pass the test of Occam's razor.. You're working with outdated pseudo-scholarship.. Read the Oxford: History Of Ancient Egypt..
FunK-3-FivE said:
He himself says his is a theory with not many answers, for example the workers did not have homes (which seems to imply that they were indeed slaves).
No, slavery as an explanation to who built the pyramids
was a theory... The fact that workers built it is backed by evidence..
FunK-3-FivE said:
Unsubstantiated, debunked claim? Do you even know what you're talking about?
Yes, have you been in a cave? What are your credentials?
FunK-3-FivE said:
[Many different Semitic tribes.
Please, Semites weren't even referenced in the 3rd and 4th dynasties, these people were called "Namu" (Travelers or wanderers) and weren't even recorded until the Middle Kingdom, and mainly the 15th dynasty Hyksos invasion..
FunK-3-FivE said:
[Actually your friend Mark Lehner himself (the one who decided the pyramids were not built by slaves) states that the reason the workers were willing to build is because of racial/social hierarchy (similar to the caste system) and they had an obligation follow the hierarchy system.
Hahaha! And what particular races comprised Egypt at that time? Lehner is not a pioneer of these assumptions, and using him to appeal to authority is absurd, I wasn't even thinking of him but I can definitely say that he was wrong in that aspect, which can be confirmed through anthropological remains.. Typical racialist nonsense of the 19th/20th century, doesn't obscure the facts.. Lehner isn't a cultural or physical anthropologist, but his contributions are welcome with in the field in which he qualifies (Archeology/Egyptology)..
FunK-3-FivE said:
That's a bold statement. Are we on the same page?
Of course it is, and no we're obviously not on the same page, you're talking about some imaginary civilization, I'm describing Ancient Egypt as it is left to us..