[There's this moment of "wait, what," and then she realizes just how truly bereft his life has been before this point. Poor Athelstan.]
A country. If you can picture Greece and Italy--well, Athens and Rome, I suppose the world's divided up a bit differently in your time. [Byzantine Empire? Holy Roman Empire? She's not in the mood to try and guess just which powers he recognizes, that's distracting from Egypt.] Anyway, picture their lands on one side of the Mediterranean Sea. It's large, but it's not uncrossable, even in ancient times. On the other side of the sea, south of the Greeks and the Romans, lies Africa. And one of the nations there is Egypt.
[Best nation or best nation? You decide.] The Egyptian civilization is as ancient as Greece or Rome. It's what I studied at home.
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A country. If you can picture Greece and Italy--well, Athens and Rome, I suppose the world's divided up a bit differently in your time. [Byzantine Empire? Holy Roman Empire? She's not in the mood to try and guess just which powers he recognizes, that's distracting from Egypt.] Anyway, picture their lands on one side of the Mediterranean Sea. It's large, but it's not uncrossable, even in ancient times. On the other side of the sea, south of the Greeks and the Romans, lies Africa. And one of the nations there is Egypt.
[Best nation or best nation? You decide.] The Egyptian civilization is as ancient as Greece or Rome. It's what I studied at home.