If you look at contemporary sources discussing slavery as practiced in the antebellum American South, a couple recurring themes pop up again and again:
Cotton. Cotton farming requires large amounts of unskilled labor, making it a perfect fit (if you disregard the moral implications, of course!...
I encountered a book by Edward Malkowski titled Before the Pharaohs: Egypt's mysterious Prehistory. In this chapter of the book, I saw this:
'A book on astrology attributed to Lucian declares that:
“The Ethiopians were the first who invented the science of stars, and
gave names to the pla...
So the answer to the subsidiary question in the question body would also seem to be no. There is no "evidence to support a Cushitic foundation for the science of astronomy?"
I very rarely use my moderator super-vote to close questions unless they explicitly breach the SE:Code of Conduct, but I'm sorely tempted to do so here.
I wonder because of how influential and famous they were at their time, immediately following, and effectively forever after that (with the exception of Aristotle's slight dark age of having his materials burned), if there were any attempts to preserve where these famous people might have lived. ...
