{UAH} Did white men bring civilization to Africa, or did civilization start in Africa?

Did white men bring civilization to Africa, or did civilization start in Africa?

5 Answers

Angelus Pascal

, Interested in the ancient history

Answered March 18

Are you serious? Africa was already civilized from the dawn of mankind up until the coming of the savages with their guns in only the 15th Century CE. Imagine, 15th Century CE!!!

Before that Africans already had contacts with outside world, with other parts of the world - Near East with the Persians, Arabs and as far east as China, sailing to all those places by taking advantage of the monsoon winds (see map). Their relationship was purely on goods trading. Of the European people, only the Romans, who were known to the Africans.

Asking this question is further proof that history was turned upside down by European slavers and colonizers.

AFRICA, the oldest of the continents, containing the earliest remains of man, and the birthplace of European civilization, is the last to be explored. Long before the temples of India or the palaces of Nineveh were built, before the hanging garden of Babylon was planted, the pyramids of Cheops and Cephren had been constructed, the temples of Palmyra and Thebes filled with worshippers.

Greece owes its civilization to Egypt: its beautiful orders of architecture came from the land of the Nile. The civilization of Egypt had grown old, and was in its decay, when Rome was born. Think what a vast abyss of time separates us from the days of Romulus and Remus! And yet the pyramids of Egypt were then older by a thousand years than all the centuries that have passed since then.

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We know that Africa is capable of the very highest civilization; that it was the birthplace of all civilization. To it we are indebted for the origin of all our arts and sciences, and it possesses to-day the most wonderful works of man. I believe that Africa, whose morning was so bright, and whose night has been so dark, will yet live to see the light of another and a higher civilization.

Joseph Pomeroy Widney, M.D. D.D. LL.D (December 26, 1841 – July 4, 1938), a White American doctor and historian and one of the most influential men of his generation.

Men sometimes speak of the Black races of the earth as races yet in their infancy with their race flowering still before them.

But history shows instead, that they are, on the contrary, races that are retreating and retrograding. they once occupied a much wider territory and wielded a vastly greater influence upon earth than they do now.

They are now found chiefly in Africa; yet traces of them are to be found through the islands of Malaysia, remnants no doubt of that more numerous black population which seems to have occupied tropical Asia before the days of the Semite and the Mongol and the Brahmanic Aryan.

Back in the centuries which are scarcely historic, where history gives indeed only vague hinting, are traces of a wide-spread primitive civilization, crude, imperfect, garish, barbaric, yet ruling the world of that age from its seats of power in upon the highlands of Africa, and of a type far in advance of anything the present can show in that land. the valleys of the Ganges, the Euphrates and the Nile; and it was of the Black Races.

The first Babylon seems to have been built by a Negroid race. The earliest Egyptian civilization seems to have been Negroid. It was in the days before the Semite was known in either land.

The Black seems to have built up empire, such as it was, by the waters of the Ganges before Mongol or Aryan. There are evidences of such primitive empire upon the highlands of Africa, and of a type far in advance of anything the present can show in that land

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