Talk:Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms/@comment-24444169-20150716065422/@comment-24444169-20150923152334

Not sure whether you are being ironic, or simply wanted to say Egypt instead of Africa. Egypt is not an african country per se. It doesn't take a genius or a particular love for cultures and history to understand that.

Even wikipedia states all of it straight away: Egypt (  / ˈiːdʒɪpt / ;  Arabic:  مِصر ‎  Miṣr,  Egyptian Arabic:  مَصر   Maṣr ), officially the  Arab Republic of Egypt, is a  transcontinental countryspanning the  northeast corner of Africa<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> and  southwest corner of Asia<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, via a  land bridge<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> formed by the  Sinai Peninsula<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">. It is the world's only contiguous  Eurafrasian<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> nation.

<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">So, going back to the point, no, Egyptians were not an african culture. It's like saying Ancient Phoenicians had a European culture simply because they had several settlements in the mediterranean shores. It is clear though, that Phoenicians were no indoeuropean peoples - their origins are quite debated.

<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Same goes for ancient egyptians, their ethnicity and ancestral culture is very debated, though they share an important bond with other mesopotamian societies... I'm not saying they were european or east asian - totally dumb theories. I'm just stating they don't classify as a historic african kingdom.