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 **3.) Keeping the outcomes reasonable but original** - an alternate version of a culture, including a surviving one, might have features unusual from an OTL point of view, but reasonably, logically established ones, instead of predictable visual clichés or other lazy stereotypes.\\
-No, if Ancient Egypt - really, which ancient Egypt ? Old Kingdom ? New Kingdom ? Ptolemaic ? - never fell and continued to the present day, it's doubtful people would still be building pyramids or tombs in the Valley of Kings with slave labour, all the while using smartphones, riding around in electric cars, holding democratic elections, and wearing casual sportswear with a few token ancient Egyptian stylings. If an ancient Egyptian society survived to the present day, it would likely still evolve in ways as to be eventually uncrecognizable to what it was like 2000 or 3000 years ago. Various new nations and powers and religions, as well as commercial changes and technological advances, will pose challenges to a surviving ancient Egypt, as preserving its "stereotypical" nature straight out of antiquity will not help it as a country surrounded by continuously advancing neighbours. Egyptians are unlikely to be flying into space, while still using horse-drawn chariots and bows in battle, rather than tanks and rifles. It is likely that if there was a more direct continuity in the alternate timeline, it is still likely the resulting Egypt would be closer to modern day Egypt in timeline, in terms of society, tech, culture, religion, economy, not closer to what ancient Egypt was like 2000 years ago.
+No, if Ancient Egypt - really, which ancient Egypt ? Old Kingdom ? New Kingdom ? Ptolemaic ? - never fell and continued to the present day, it's doubtful people would still be building pyramids or tombs in the Valley of Kings with slave labour, all the while using smartphones, riding around in electric cars, holding democratic elections, and wearing casual sportswear with a few token ancient Egyptian stylings. If an ancient Egyptian society survived to the present day, it would likely still evolve in ways as to be eventually uncrecognizable to what it was like 2000 or 3000 years ago. Various new nations and powers and religions, as well as commercial changes and technological advances, will pose challenges to a surviving ancient Egypt, as preserving its "stereotypical" nature straight out of antiquity will not help it as a country surrounded by continuously advancing neighbours. Egyptians are unlikely to be flying into space, while still using horse-drawn chariots and bows in battle, rather than tanks and rifles. It is likely that if there was a more direct continuity in the alternate timeline, it is still likely the resulting Egypt would be closer to the modern day Egypt of our timeline, in terms of society, tech, culture, religion, economy, not closer to what ancient Egypt was like 2000 years ago.
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