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[QUOTE]Originally posted by kenndo: [QB] I HAD TOO edit SOME THINGS HERE - [QUOTE]Originally posted by kenndo: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by ausar: [qb] [QUOTE]Anyway, I think kenndo does have a point. In medieval times, West Africa may have had the most advanced civilisations in the world if you consider Timbuktu, Songhay, Yoruba etc Correct me if I'm wrong but Egypt was down by that time and Europeans/Arabs had declined into savagery at the time (later to be "re-enlightened" by the Moors?). Maybe China was doing something big at the time, don't know for sure...[/QUOTE]Europeans except for the Byzantine was in the dark ages. Arabs had the various Islamic caliphs that preserved Greco-Roman knowleadge and improved upon it. In India you had mathematical,scientific,and medical breakthroughs. Look up the oldest University in existence called Taxtila in modern day Pakistan and Nalanda in India. Most of the knowledge that was transplanted to Europe came from India via the House of Wisdom in Abbassid Iraq. During the Middle Ages the most advanced were the people of India and China. [/qb][/QUOTE]I have TO DISAGREE with you on this one.let's not forget that the arabs built upon the knowledge of india and it was sent to africa,and the west africans made advances when they got this knowledge later in mali they made some more advances more so on their own,in science,etc. A FRENCH MAN went to djenne and took physician and a wife back to france. this doctor treated the future french king .west africa was known for thier advanced medical practices.Djenne was also a well known medical center and leo africanus and al-kati agreed that the physicians there had advanced medical practices.THIS KNOWLEDGE was spread to the rest of mali and some other areas in west africa. THE mosquito was isolated as the cause of malaria and doctors removed cataracts from the human eye. surgery and brain surgery was performed. Astronomy BECAME MORE ADVANCED here too and advancements in government. THE ARABIC script was used in africa and later africans in early modern times use the script for there own languages.the arabic is more a more developed script than the one in china,of course it was not as advanced as meriotic. Morals were higher,and women were treated with greater respect.civilized life was more advanced. THE berber writer visited india and mali when he compared the two cultures he said the people of mali were more civilized. let's not forget that kush,medieval nubia was on the level of india but in some respects more advanced,and mali AND some other areas of west africa became more advanced than MEDIEVAL NUBIA in medieval times. IT is safe too say that spain and africa were at least on par with asia,but if you consider the moral developements and the knowledge the africans built upon from the arabs,than i would say that certain civilization in east africa,west africa,north africa and in few other areas in africa were a little bit more advanced than india or china. [/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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