What were the ancient Egyptians? Were they black or were they white? Because of whitewashing in both popular culture and history classes, a lot of people tend to think they were white. Because they live in Africa (a continent, let's recall, which is substantially larger than Europe), other people assume they were black.hat's right, the ancient Egyptians weren't black. They weren't white either, mind you, but to presume that a culture has to be one or the other is to accept a racial dichotomy that white colonialists themselves invented for the purpose of sorting the world into civilized (white) and savage (colored) peoples.
We are not even sure how many different kinds of birds there are in the world. The answer to that is about 10 thousand. Several of these kinds, or species, are numbered over 3 billion in the world. Probably the most common, if you donât count chickens that we raise for eggs and food, is the House Sparrow.
The world's species encompass nearly four hundred thousand plants. Most plant species are flowering plants, classified as angiosperms. Least numerous are the vertebrate animals (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish) which number eighty thousand. Of these, mammals account for the fewest species, totalling just 5,500. Estimates of the total number of living plant and animal species on earth.