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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TruthAndRights: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] I hope you guys are not making the mistake of judging African cultures by Western standards. Many African cultures built cities; however very few of them were constructed by stone. In African cultures, large monuments and structures constructed of permanent and endurable material such as stone was built for spirits of the dead or the gods and meant to last for eternity, whereas large monuments and structures constructed for living yet mortal people were constructed of more temporary and perishable materials such as adobe (mud-brick) or wood. The same was true for ancient Egypt, where most of the stone monuments in the form of temples and tombs were dedicated to gods and pharaohs. Virtually all cities in Egypt were constructed of mud-brick and wood and even then such cities were few and far between throughout the country of Egypt. This is the reason why Egypt was popularly called by archaeologists a civilization "without cities". Ironically, West Africans built many cities yet their civilizations tended to be ignored by Westerners as part of propaganda to demoralize and denigrate them. [/qb][/QUOTE]!!!!!!!!! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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