For nearly ten thousand years (i.e. 8000 B.C. to 1600 A.D.), the black descendants of Ham were held as the undisputed super powers of the world. Africa's influence touched the whole of humanity in one form or another. At the height of its influence, Egypt emerged as one of the greatest civilizations known to man. The ancient pyramids alone give testament to its highly developed and complex society and culture.
Mizraim was the second son of Ham and father of seven sons, Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim and Caphtorim, from which came the Philistines. Mizraim and his descendants settled the land known today as Egypt. Before it came to be called Egypt, it was called Mizraim. The Egyptians were ruled by many great Nubian Pharaohs such as Menes, Ahmose I (Amos), Zoser, Khufu, Amenophis or Amenhotep III (an Ethiopian), and Ramesses II, to name a few.
Pharaohs in those days were considered to be divine, a belief based upon a concept called the divine right of kings. The Pharaoh was central to Egyptian life. He encompassed both the secular and sacred, which to Egyptians were one and the same. He settled legal disputes and led the religious rituals that sustained Egypt. The Pharaoh was not only a god-king but was responsible for holding the balance of ma’at that was the rule of order over the chaos that was waiting to envelope the world. As long as king and commoner alike honored the gods and obeyed the laws set down by them, the balance was maintained and all would be well. Should the Pharaoh fail, all the world would suffer and descend into an unthinkable state of anarchy.
Even the Pharaohs ritual vestments were designed to show his power. The symbols of the gods were the kings’ tools of office. The crook was used to reward the innocent, the flail to punish the guilty, the dual crown showing his authority to rule the two lands, and the Ureaus Cobra or Eye of Ra seeing all that the Pharaoh did, good or evil.
The spirit of Horus, which entered into him at his coronation, was thought to reside within him to guide him along the path of ma’at. Then when he died, his spirit was merged with Osiris from where he could guide his successors.
Nubian Egyptian dynasties enjoyed an uninterrupted period of power from 3050 B.C to 343 A.D. Early Egyptians were pure black Africans, who had thick lips and broad noses like their southern cousins the Ethiopians (Gen. 10:6). Many of the negroid features were lost during the European and Arab periods of domination.
Alexander the Great was one of the first Europeans to conquer Egypt, in 332 B.C. to 395 A.D., commonly referred to as the Greco-Roman Period. During this period and well into the Arab invasions beginning from 750 A.D. to 1517 A.D., the Japhites and the Semites infused with the Hamites. Over the centuries, the original Nubian features gradually lost its bushy thick woolly hair and deep black skin complexion, as happened to most other regions where black people were once dominate. The Greek historian Herodotus (484-425 B.C.), the father of history, clearly stated that the Egyptians of his day possessed black skins and woolly hair.
In the book, "The Earth and its Inhabitants", Reclus writes that Egypt was a great civilized power during the period in which Europe was overrun by savage tribes. Arithmetic, architecture, geometry, astrology, all the arts, and nearly all of today's industries and sciences were known while the Greeks lived in caves. The pattern of our thinking originated in Africa, says Reclus.
Music and dance was also a major part of Egyptian culture. An Egyptian hieroglyphic reads: "...Revel in pleasure while your life endures and deck your head with myrrh. Be richly clad in white and perfumed linen; like the gods anointed be; and never weary grow in eager quest of what your heart desires do as it prompts you..." Lay of the Harpist. 
Egyptians lead the world in technological advances. Egyptians during the dynastic periods invented Medicine, making the first known attempts to describe and analyze the brain. Mummification was one of their inventions that lead to the use of embalming. They were the first to invent and use stools, beds and tables, space observatories, glass bottles and jars, navigation and ship building, obelisks and pillars, monuments, lighthouses and temples, paper and writing and geometry were all started by the ancient Nu-bians of Egypt. There is also evidence of attempts to fly.
In 1922, a model of a sailplane was found in the tomb of King Tut. In 1969, Dr. Khalil Missiha, while looking through a box of bird models in a Cairo museum store room, was shocked to have rediscovered a two-thousand-year-old model of an airplane, made of sycamore wood. It had modern features and resembled the American Hercules transport aircraft.
From the Cushites to the Kemites came the fundamental ideas that gave birth to modern civilization, as we know it today. The Western world is deeply indebted to the black race for their contributions to the whole of humanity.
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