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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mansa Musa: [QB] Also keep in mind that the basis for calling SOME Ancient Egyptians "Caucasian" is not based on DNA analysis it is based on craniometry, the measure meant of skulls. Dr. Shomarka Keita (who's full text papers I'd love to get my hands on if anyone has the research PLEASE tell me how to get it) has proven that the Egyptians and Ancient people of Eastern Africa were biologically African, they developed those traits on their own. As far as attention to Egypt vs. other tropical African civilizations archeologists have indeed in the past glanced over much of African history but much of that can also be explained by the fact that few African civilizations developed or inherited (like the Greeks) a sophisticated writing system to record their history. Here is a majp charting major African Civilizations. [IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b383/shurikenjay/Africakingdoms.jpg[/IMG] Also a map on language families in case anyone is interested. Afroasiatic cultures were not the only advanced cultures of Africa. [IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b383/shurikenjay/African_language_families.png[/IMG] During the "Middle Ages" (A dark age for Europe but a golden age for Islam) West African kingdoms florished. Mali was the seat of power in Africa with an empire that stretch across North an central Africa, a territory as big as Europe itself. During this time Timbuktu, now a desert outpost, was a grand city and home to one of the greatest intellectual institutions in the world rivaling that of Baghdad. Scholars came all over the world to learn at Timbuktu. Here is a link discussing the plight of the texts in Timbuktu that contain so much of West Africa's past and its knowledge. [URL=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_6_19/ai_87015153]Translating the African past: the Islamic heritage of sub-Saharan Africa[/URL] These texts have been described with grandiose terms such as "The Dead Sea Scrolls of Africa" and Arabic as "The Latin of Africa". Certainly there were many advanced ancient civilization in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe and the empire Monomotapa that rose out of it but much of Africa takes a back seat in history class because very few written languages developed out of it or evolved from lanaguages like the languages of Europe did. Human have existed in their current form for 100's of thousands of years yet we only have about 5000 years of written history, those of Egypt and Mesopatamia being some of the oldest. And these people who oppose us wonder why there is so much focus on Egypt, it simply had the most well preserved history to reference concerning the African past. Its prominence on world history doesn't hurt its getting attention either. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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