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acm2033 t1_iu77ob7 wrote
Reply to comment by HereTakeThisBooger in TIL that when the French first arrived in North America they met the Ojibwe Indians who introduced them to other tribes but used nasty names. The Lakota/Dakota people were called "Nadowessiwag," which became Nadouessioux in French, then Sioux in English. It means "little snake." by marmorset
Whoops, I will update my cerebral index
acm2033 t1_iyvowy9 wrote
Reply to comment by PitoPlankton3415 in Why Roman Egypt was such a strange province by oni64
Instead of being a Roman settlement, Egypt was largely left alone for a while under the Ptolymies. They already had agriculture (which was very different than the rest of the Roman world), language, a system of government, and economy that worked. No need for the Romans to come in and establish things that were already there.
That changed after Cleopatra backed Mark Antony in the civil war, and lost. Octavian made Egypt a province to be governed through Rome, rather than an independent state.
The whole blog is about a 30 min read, well worth the time.