Egyptian merc question

[caravel]

Nubian Spearmen: Wasn't there a country named Nubia at one point that was South of Egypt. They must be considered a separate entity or they would be called 'Egyptian' Spearmen or some deritivation there of.

Nizaris: Someone mentioned that was a general term for various tribes, but then tribes have there own leadership, so wouldn't considered themselves 'Egyptians' and their pay would be 'mercenary' as well.

Nubian Spearmen were supposed to represent those pressed into service IIRC. Nizaris are in fact the same as "Hashishin", so they wouldn't have been mercenaries either.

[Sensei Warrior]

Leave it to Caravel to poke holes in my theories with history .