 Complete the following phrase:  Foster summarized the early 19th century controversy over the ethnicity of the ancient Egyptians as a debate of conflicting theories regarding the Hamites. In ancient times, the Hamites, who developed the civilization of Egypt, were considered Black. Foster describes the 6th century CE curse of Ham theory, which began in the Babylonian Talmud, a collection of oral traditions of the Jews, that the sons of Ham are cursed by being black. Foster said throughout the Middle Ages and to the end of the eighteenth century, the Negro was seen by Europeans as a descendant of Ham. In the early 19th century, after 