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T-Bone ([personal profile] t_bone) wrote2019-08-28 06:22 am

М - мультикультурализм

The Jewish garrison at Elephantine exemplifies the mixed racial and cultural character of the Persian empire: it was a Jewish garrison, stationed in Egypt, commanded by Iranians, owing allegiance to Persia, recording its business in Aramaic, on a site whose name is Greek (‘the place of ivory’); finally, among the names identified in its papyri is a Chorasmian from north of the river Oxus.

А почему была необходимость в еврейском гарнизоне? А потому, что Египет под Ахеменидами постоянно бунтовал