Are those who managed to destroy Egyptian civilization, have the right to call their selves Egyptians?

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Answer 1

~Basic Rule No. 1 of human history:

Winners can call themselves anything they like.

Corollary A:

So can losers, they just can't make it stick.

Answer 2

No one destroyed Egyptian civilization. Egypt altered gradually over thousands of years and continues to alter still. About 1600 BC, the Hyksos swept over Egypt in horse-drawn chariots, which the Egyptians had never seen before. Naturally, the Hyksos "conquered" Egypt, which meant that they came and went, mostly they went. The Egyptians conquered the Middleast, but later they were conquered by Assyrians, Persians, and Macedonians (Alexander). Ptolemy and his successors (more than one) (Cleopatra, more than one) became the new pharaoh's. Julius and Octavius Augustus Caesar absorbed Egypt into a Roman province. As late as AD 400, Claudian, born in Egypt, learned Latin as a "new" language and became one of the greatest of Roman poets. In the 600's, the Arabs boiled out of Arabia, conquered Egypt and the Middle East very fast, spread across North Africa, crossed the Straits of Gibraltar, and defeated the last king of the Visigoths to establish their own caliphate in AD 711. Egyptian civilization is much altered, even tothe present hour.

Answer 3

The destroyers probably don't have that right but the people who lived there after the destruction certainly do. In fact, they can call themselves whatever they want.

Answer 4

I call myself an American....