I’ve heard the theory that the reason why Egypt became Christian fast was because the Romans destroyed the Nile taxation system (low taxes when the Nile levels are low and the soil not very fertile, higher taxes when the Nile levels are high and the soil very fertile) which made many Egyptians poor and this weakened the Egyptian religion in the long term. Is there any truth to it?
>>18361514None at all. Egyptians converted because Christ is Lord.
>>18361517based, praise the Lord
It's because Alexandria was filled with Greek speaking Jews who loved the Septuagint and they were swayed by St Mark's declaration of the messiah and his newly minted version of the gospel in Greek using fancy transliterations from Aramaic just like the LXX does.Alexandria being the cultural hub of Egypt at that time, it's only natural for the religion to spread from there.It became a center of Christian scholarship, influential around the entire Mediterranean.Trying to simplify all these things down to, muh taxes, muh poor, is to confuse the real causes of Christianity's spread. People didn't convert because they were poor, they converted because they were convinced of it's truth. Plenty of wealthy and middle class people were likewise convinced. Rather than coming primarily from rural areas, the faith spread mainly through the period network of cities and ports because communication was faster that way.
>>18361875Do copts have a significant amount of jewish dna?
>>18361514Hm Nile taxation seems interesting, like a nuance system that worked. Its funny the Roman heavy hand comes and fuged it up, probably associating it with their carthaginian adjacent spooky witchcraft.
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>>18361908Why would they? Nearly all of Egypt was Christian prior to the Islamic conquest of peace and friendship. The Copts are just Egyptians who refused to convert to Islam.
>>18361514They just kept worshiping Osiris under the guise of a Jewish carpenter.
>>18361514>because the Romans destroyed the Nile taxation system (low taxes when the Nile levels are low and the soil not very fertile, higher taxes when the Nile levels are high and the soil very fertile)The Romans did tax lands differently based off of production. They weren't submitting them to endless taxation without reprieve. Tax breaks were common amongst struggling areas. They weren't idiots who just taxed people to death.
