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ancient civilisations and empires in history

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-16 10:13

let's list 'em.
off the top of my head, there's ancient greece (philosophy! sculpture! tragedy!), rome (gladiators), the byzantine empire/constantinople (mosaics, awesome architecture), ancient india (uh.. elephants?), ancient egypt (pyramids and papyrus!) .. ancient china (vases, funny hats and robes), feudal japan (ninjas)

am I missing any? add please.

Name: Whatshisname 2006-09-27 19:09

>>118
"All non-black civilisations in similiar environments"
And those are?

"Similar environments" would be one where
- what crop plants there are, barely sustain a small village grown in a field where, say, wheat would give a certain surplus (like, say, enough to trade with neigbours, or store for next year, so at least someone can have time to think out better tech and stuff). And potatoes even more so.
- all nearby "domesticatable" animals are the likes of zebras (makes horses look loke zombies), water buffalos (even worse) and elephants. And before you say "India", remember they (and others who domesticated elephants) had tamed other, smaller animals first and knew it could be done, and how to deal with large animals in general. (And I've yet to hear of anyone that breeds elephants; they capture a very young, feral one and break it like a horse). There's that expression about running before you can walk.
- mosquitoes and tsetse flies aren't even the worst parasites around, just the ones with the rep to go with it.


"the negroes enslaved by the Egyptian"
Are you accusing the Egyptians of being white? Then look at the map again; Egypt's in Africa. Also, the first foreigners ever to invade Egypt were the Hyksos, in the mid-2nd millenium BC. By then Dynastic Egypt alone was almost two millenia old. And don't let the skin tone of current egyptians fool you; those are Arabs.

And this isn't even a unique phenomenon. The current population of Asia Minor was Greek, until Turks invaded over half a millenium ago. Constantinople was last to fall in 1453; we now know it as İstanbul (the initial upper-case "i" is actually dotted, for grammatical reasons).

Oh, and that pale, burger-chomping fatso being "real American"? Don't make me laugh! (As for Black Americans, they even say so themselves; they're the ones insisting on the term "African-American". To me, though, they've spent too long in Yankeeland for there to be all that much "African" about them.)

Also, it's not like there haven't been civs in Africa. Egyptians, for one, were just as black as the nubians, whose civ btw is as old as Egypt itself.


>>119
Whatever race you're talking about, the answer's the same: Baaaah!
Problem is, when OP asked about ancient empires, some shit-for-brains racist phucca started pretending African empires somehow, magically, didn't exist just cos we invaded them and not vice versa.

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