@CandyK When European sailors visited west Africa they always brought back really awe inspiring things about their lands as technologically superior. Both were iron age cultures. They then realized African slaves they traded for guns were useful against malaria. Spain started talking up the myth of Ham. Just imagine how different life would be if they had maintained their awe and reverence toward west Africans instead of creating myth to rationalize the institution of slavery. Mind you northern Europe didn't even know what a lion looked like(google Swedish stuffed lion for a laugh) or what the pharaohs of Egypt looked like when they read the bible so he was always a white European king until Napoleon. The Pharaohs changed but because they needed Jesus to be white he stayed white.