Is it normal that it ticks me off when things are based on ancient egypt?

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Straight up, whenever somethings based on egypt whether it's a story, a specific character, an ability, etc it always ticks me off when people think of egypt the first thing they think of are the ancient egyptians, while it's okay to base things off of it's history I just wish people based it on other things in its history or even its modern culture.

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  • [Old Memory]
    3 years ago

    You should check out this really cool movie, the main character is Robert California from the office I think, he figures out how to use a worm hole to the other side of the galaxy, but then these aliens show up to destroy the earth!

    It does water their culture down, though, to be used casually often. It would be cool if like, Mesopotamia and the other civilizations along the Tigris and Euphrates would be featured in narratives more.

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    • bigbudchonga
      3 years ago

      Big up, dude! The Mesopotamian civilizations are pretty damn cool, and thanks to them writing on clay tablets, they're pretty much the only ancient civilization in history where new texts are still being unearthed.

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      • [Old Memory]
        3 years ago

        They were really smart for not having technology, not sure if it's Mesopotamian but there's a culture around that time that burned their fields every few years to enrich the earth.

        Then you have that guy that was gonna split a baby in half but gave it to the woman who said the other woman could have the baby

        It's also the oldest civilization we know of I think, so we all have some roots their I think. Not like genetically maybe, but going down into how they ran things it's all very human

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        Sometimes archeologists find recipes for beer and stuff, kinda cool to see how they ate

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        • bigbudchonga
          3 years ago

          I didn't know about the fields thing. Interesting stuff! The man who split a baby in half was from Isreal, but Israel is pretty close ot Mesopotamia.

          Yeah, we defo owe a lot to them; there's an old theory in Ancient History that civilization basically swept out there westward, and that's what helped peoples like the Greeks and Indians so much.

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          • [Old Memory]
            3 years ago

            I might be mixing up other cultures, Babylonians and Byzantine maybe. I had honors world and us history, they were fun.

            I haven't done any real research, but I think about it some times, how people and society have evolved, and I think there were more civilizations before and during the earliest we know. It creates a gentler slope from hunting and gathering to shelter, cooking, and irrigation.

            I watched a video this YouTuber produced, he claims to have found the lost city of Atlantis. He has two or three videos on it, hour ish videos, and he goes through what the Greeks wrote about Atlantis and the history of "Gobleki Tepi" and so much more.

            Human history really interests me because it shows where we've come from and how we got here. I'm also a little cynical, so I think about the psychology of it all too. Like, for example, how easy it would have been to convince a settlement of people that a man who was killed came back to life, which allows the indoctrination of a new religion.

            But enough about mass manipulation, there's another video about how the pyramids in Egypt (sorry, I know you're tired of that theme) but there's a working diagram of sorts that illustrates how if you flowed water under the pyramid it would generate electricity. Another video about pyramids, they built a stone block that looked exactly like one from a pyramid by mixing sandstone powder or whatever, water, and probably a few other things Egyptians would have had anyway, and it literally just hardens like cement. At the end of that video, the guy was like "in ten thousand years, are people gonna wonder if I made this here or drug it tens of thousands of miles"

            But yeah, you can just look at the homeless population and see there were probably several mini settlements of small populations that made little protectable areas before bigger societies formed. It's so crazy to think about a time where there were people and an untainted world to cultivate, no real wide spread threat of manipulation.

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  • FromTheSouthWeirdMan
    3 years ago

    I dont understand why it annoys you? Ancient Egypt was lit dude.

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  • Tommythecaty
    3 years ago

    Who could honestly care, things can be based on anything.

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  • bigbudchonga
    3 years ago

    What is it about stuff being based on the Ancient Egyptians that irks you?

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    • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
      3 years ago

      id git pissed if everyone thought i stood around like

      https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTY7KHhKa5seD-DvBbsm-VlbpAgOw7VgAq8z6VL5RQxRgZMBUwf&usqp=CAU

      all day

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      • bigbudchonga
        3 years ago

        Loool, I can see why. Are you Egyptian then?

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        • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
          3 years ago

          me? no

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