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Now it's only a matter of time, for euronuts trying to claim it. Which will be ironic.
Quick facts:
The Benin walls consisted of a combination of ramparts and moats. The ramparts ranged in size from shallow traces to gigantic 20-meter-high (66 feet) around Benin City.
It covered a border distance of 16,000km.
It enclosed 6500km˛ of community land.
Its construction is estimated to have started as early as 800AD.
It was finally completed around 1460AD.
It provided a defensive barrier against invaders.
Shortly after the wall and the ditch were completed, the Portuguese visited Benin in 1472 AD.
At that time, it was considered the world's largest earthwork. European visitors travel notes described the Great wall of Benin e.g. Dapper 1668.
The Guinness Book of World Records (1974) describes the walls of Benin City as the world's second largest man-made structure after China's Great Wall, in terms of length, and the series of earthen ramparts as the most extensive earthwork in the world.
quote:Originally posted by the lioness,: the guy who wrote the description here of the Walls of Benin ^^ is Fred Pearce in The New Scientist:
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Tukuler
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Considering the source, Mike111, and his subjective polemics and tendency to rip off and distort old ES material. I don't know what the OP actually refers to * Nigeria's Benin City or * Nigeria's Eredo Kingdom wall
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quote:Originally posted by Tukuler: Considering the source, Mike111, and his subjective polemics and tendency to rip off and distort old ES material. I don't know what the OP actually refers to * Nigeria's Benin City or * Nigeria's Eredo Kingdom wall
My, how bankrupt and pathetic we have become.
Fourty2Tribes - is referring to the "TEXT" part in ORANGE above (only), as coming from Realhistoryww.com
There is no material about Nigeria's Benin City or Nigeria's Eredo Kingdom at Realhistoryww.com. As a matter of fact, there is no material about Sub-Sahara Africa, except in passing, at Realhistoryww.com
So then, would you care to specify what "subjective polemics and tendency to rip off and distort old ES material" you refer to.
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There are many ways you can recover yourself from the bankruptcy you've fallen into but as for you being pathetic cheer up that's only a perception.
OK, Tribes confused me, if no one else, by making a unit out of your site's intro and the material immediately attached to it.
Admittedly surprising since I seem to recall you dissing W Africa's banco architecture in the same terms your fellow European Africa haters do.
The subjective polemics is obvious as is ripping off ES to anyone who's seen your more than a decade long evolution here at ES from quiet church mouse to noisy fat rat.
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Doxie, I remember when all the excitement was that Egyptian Royalty was Y-dna haplogroup "R1" the "White Mans" haplogroup. Now you're claiming haplogroup "I" as the "White Mans" haplogroup. I sense that this is a "Seed Change" in Albino denial tactics, so please tell me where the haplogroup I stuff came from. Btw - most of my alleles are I.
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