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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Whatbox: [QB] @ cass: Dude, sorry, skimmed that post. You provided the quotes i was thinking of, them [b]in their own words[/b] differentiating between the two lands. And directly, though I would have accepted indirect as well. I thought i recalled some'm on their hair being different. As far as written language goes that's wrong. European derived scripts like the alphabet we're using now derive from Greco-Roman which derives from Phoenician and Nile Valley (African) scripts. In fact sub-Saharan folks did have written language before colonization -- although mostly in Arabic script (which traces back to the Nile Valley, even Biblical Ishmael's mother being Egyptian) and at times even language (which is Semetic which branches from Afroasiatic which originates in ... sub-Saharan Africa). One of the scripts fully in used in their own language was Ancient Egyptian -- Kemet (or ancient "Egypt" a Greek i.e. Euro-colonial word) was not fully North of the Sahara at the dawn of its civilization; the Sahara had not yet even grown to stretch South past "Egypt" in early Dynastic times lol. Some writers from the time (i think) of Mali write of them as having the most advanced physicians in the known (Islamic) world at the time. Binary script (without which we would not have computers) is traced back to Renaissance Spain through to Mali or something but few know it's used in games for fun further South of the Sahara. It's funny you mention the European conquest of Africa -- in South Eastern Africa this was generally the case, rapid and fairly unimpeded murdering (other than the Zulu and others). But if you were aware of what the Ashante which had *women* :D in their military and the Sudanese-Egyptian Beja (Brits called them "Fuzzy Wuzzies" -- there was a poem written for what they did to the British square) did to the British you'd know you look like an ass making such a sweeping generalization. The British didn't swoop in and take Ashante territory. They thought they wanted a piece of the Ashante when they got their balls handed back to them early on in the 19th Century or 1800s. They came back late in the 19th Century and defeated the Ashante in like 1900. Britain owned the entire world using their British Square -- few withstood it. Further, Euro imperialism in Africa is one of the most short lived Imperial Eras on earth. :D They still have influence today, but no longer any direct standing armies. If Africa (which was sparsely populated) hadn't had complex societies and states at around the time of European expansion in the 1400s or even Islamic expansion much earlier Africa would have ended up like the Indigenous Americas, and Australian Aboriginees, and that's the truth. I would also say Berbers, but many of their cultural practices are still intact. This is true for aboriginal folks in the Americas too, so let me qualify that with Native Americans (native North Americans) making this a numbers thing. Matter of fact, the vast majority of South America that is indigenous today is Mestizo (mixed) (nothin wrong with that to they or i). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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