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Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by jamaicanoshu(m): 2:42pm On Jun 26, 2015
If Kemet,Nubia , had colonized the rest of Africa our lives today would have been so much better today . Instead of Africa, Ansar the BLACK WAR GOD went and spread Civilization to the rest of the world. He brought writing to India, China, the Far East and the America's. ALL WRITING came out Kemet/Nubia. Why is it that Chinese writing ,Mayan writing, and Kemetic writing(HEIROGLYPHICS) all look so similar. Their clothing and hats were similar. They all had pyramids. They all had divine kings as government with a strong priestly cast. If only he had colonized the rest of Africa first the past 3000 years could have been so different for Africa. Today African's are going on pilgrimages to Rome, Mecca and Israel . They won't go to Egypt to see where those religious ideas were stolen from! The White man ,the Arab and the Jew are busy claiming Ancient Egypt ! Every four months out of Hollywood comes a film trying to make Egypt White. Whilst Africans are busy BLEACHING OUT THEIR MINDS AND BODIES! If we could build those great pyramids; we can surely build our own roads today!

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Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by pamodulus: 2:46pm On Jun 26, 2015
I totally agree
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by DaBullIT(m): 2:55pm On Jun 26, 2015
I disagree with a question

Is Egypt a better country today ?

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Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Nobody: 3:11pm On Jun 26, 2015
so waht has colonizing all those places done for Egypt?..
its not like anything can be done about it now.

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Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by kettykings: 3:21pm On Jun 26, 2015
To colonize the country would require technology to move troops to all parts, the education to break through the language barrier, this is like blaming sultan of sokoto,usman danfodio for not conquering the whole of Nigeria a task that would have been too body and fraught with issues.

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Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Duru1(m): 3:25pm On Jun 26, 2015
kettykings:
To colonize the country would require technology to move troops to all parts, the education to break through the language barrier, this is like blaming sultan of sokoto,usman danfodio for not conquering the whole of Nigeria a task that would have been too body and fraught with issues.


The jackass, sultan of sokoto,usman danfodio, attempted southeastern move but was schooled in the art of warfare.

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Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Nobody: 3:48pm On Jun 26, 2015
jamaicanoshu:
If Kemet,Nubia , had colonized the rest of Africa our lives today would have been so much better today . Instead of Africa, Ansar the BLACK WAR GOD went and spread Civilization to the rest of the world. He brought writing to India, China, the Far East and the America's. ALL WRITING came out Kemet/Nubia. Why is it that Chinese writing ,Mayan writing, and Kemetic writing(HEIROGLYPHICS) all look so similar. Their clothing and hats were similar. They all had pyramids. They all had divine kings as government with a strong priestly cast. If only he had colonized the rest of Africa first the past 3000 years could have been so different for Africa. Today African's are going on pilgrimages to Rome, Mecca and Israel . They won't go to Egypt to see where those religious ideas were stolen from! The White man ,the Arab and the Jew are busy claiming Ancient Egypt ! Every four months out of Hollywood comes a film trying to make Egypt White. Whilst Africans are busy BLEACHING OUT THEIR MINDS AND BODIES! If we could build those great pyramids; we can surely build our own roads today!
You are broadly correct. Africa would have been very similar to China/Russia/India today - large with a single national language, central govt and military. An impenetrable fortress of power and stability. I suspect the main reason the pharaohs didn't do this was the Sahara desert. The Sahara was green and fertile a few thousand years ago, and was home to kingdoms and cities. But over time, serious climatic changes caused desertification which became so huge as to make the region uninhabitable, and crossing it an arduous task indeed. Today the Sahara covers virtually half of the continent. I think that was the main reason op.

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Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Nobody: 4:14pm On Jun 26, 2015
DaBullIT:
I disagree with a question

Is Egypt a better country today ?
Egypt itself is a victim of its own powerlessness, which would have been averted had it expanded into a larger Pan-African construct in antiquity. Look how easily it was taken over by foreign invaders - Greeks, and later Arabs. All that would have been impossible if it had the rest of Africa to back it up. Tell me how a small band of Arab fanatics could have faced a combined army of Egyptian troops, Nubian forces, Zulu warriors, Shona warriors, Malian, Ghana forces, Yoruba and Benin archers, and dreaded Igbo headhunters, among others on the continent. They simply wouldn't have bothered trying.

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Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by LOIUSXIV: 4:55pm On Jun 26, 2015
remember that for a long time,. today's CAUCASIAN 'SUper' race was once called barbarians.the Europeans learnt algebra from the arabs and superseded the Arabs themselves.the JAPAN SUCCESS STORY is well known.the 'Black problem' or African problem is self-created.or maybe we should ask God why the black race finds it frustrating to crack the Technology curse and measure up to the Asians&WHITES.Ask Malaysia-colonisation is not an excuse for backwardness.
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Shymm3x: 4:55pm On Jun 26, 2015
Looking for a bogeyman to blame for ya woes is the bane of black folks. Time to start blaming ancient Egypt, no?

Well, in case you don't know - the greatness of ancient Egypt came of the Nile River, and without that River, ancient Egypt would never have been as great it was. So it would have been stupid to move away from that - and venture into Africa proper. Also, all the other black empires around the Nile back then flourished - down to the great Zimbabwe in Southern Africa.

Africa interior never even had that much people living there back in prehistoric times - apart from maybe the Bantus in the thick forests of the Eastern Nigeria/Cameroun axis and the pygmies in Southern Africa. The Bantus weren't even that many back then and they'd have their own little civilisation in the forest, so why go trouble them? All the other Africa tribes lived in ancient Egypt (or around that axis) and the migration waves into interior Africa started after different invasions.

Err, I would even say they'd indirectly colonise the rest of Africa cos majority of the kingship bloodline all over Africa came from the ancient Egyptian priests and their cults - after the collapse of the Egyptian civilisation.

After Egypt - Africa produced a lot of great and decent civilisations scattered all over the continent, and beyond (the moors and all the achievements of ancient Ghana, Mali, Songhay - and a lot of great civilisations in East/Central Africa are classic examples) but black people just never had what it takes to go toe-to-toe with a more aggressive race like white folks. We're a spiritual people, while white people are always passively angry and they thrive on total domination. Even if ancient Egypt had ruled the whole continent and colonised everything - it would have been the same outcome (if not worse) judging by what Egypt looks like right now - with Arabs running around in that country. grin

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Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Nobody: 5:17pm On Jun 26, 2015
LOIUSXIV:
remember that for a long time,. today's CAUCASIAN 'SUper' race was once called barbarians.the Europeans learnt algebra from the arabs and superseded the Arabs themselves.the JAPAN SUCCESS STORY is well known.the 'Black problem' or African problem is self-created.or maybe we should ask God why the black race finds it frustrating to crack the Technology curse and measure up to the Asians&WHITES.Ask Malaysia-colonisation is not an excuse for backwardness.
There we go with the nasty, inferiority complex ridden contributions - "It is because we are black!" Why not just say that and save us your lengthy rubbish. Or maybe you can start to use your brain and contribute meaningfully. In the thousands of years that whites were the world's barbarians, was it also a "self-created problem", and why were they unable to "break the technology curse" that saw them living in caves while Africans were building mighty pyramids and temples and advancing the sciences? Are you going to fish for excuses for them?
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Nobody: 5:28pm On Jun 26, 2015
Shymm3x:
Looking for a bogeyman to blame for ya woes is the bane of black folks. Time to start blaming ancient Egypt, no?

Well, in case you don't know - the greatness of ancient Egypt came of the Nile River, and without that River, ancient Egypt would never have been as great it was. So it would have been stupid to move away from that - and venture into Africa proper. Also, all the other black empires around the Nile back then flourished - down to the great Zimbabwe in Southern Africa.

Africa interior never even had that much people living there back in prehistoric times - apart from maybe the Bantus in the thick forests of the Eastern Nigeria/Cameroun axis and the pygmies in Southern Africa. The Bantus weren't even that many back then and they'd have their own little civilisation in the forest, so why go trouble them? All the other Africa tribes lived in ancient Egypt (or around that axis) and the migration waves into interior Africa started after different invasions.

Err, I would even say they'd indirectly colonise the rest of Africa cos majority of the kingship bloodline all over Africa came from the ancient Egyptian priests and their cults - after the collapse of the Egyptian civilisation.

After Egypt - Africa produced a lot of great and decent civilisations scattered all over the continent, and beyond (the moors and all the achievements of ancient Ghana, Mali, Songhay - and a lot of great civilisations in East/Central Africa are classic examples) but black people just never had what it takes to go toe-to-toe with a more aggressive race like white folks. We're a spiritual people, while white people are always passively angry and they thrive on total domination. Even if ancient Egypt had ruled the whole continent and colonised everything - it would have been the same outcome (if not worse) judging by what Egypt looks like right now - with Arabs running around in that country. grin
There would be no "Arabs running around the country" because Arabs would not have been able to invade and settle Egypt in a unified Africa with a central govt and authority. Just as no foreign element was able to overrun China - the Europeans at best managed to seize a city here and a town there for trade purposes. But the Chinese retained overall control of their territory, and still do.
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by DaBullIT(m): 5:31pm On Jun 26, 2015
ROSSIKE:
Egypt itself is a victim of its own powerlessness, which would have been averted had it expanded into a larger Pan-African construct in antiquity. Look how easily it was taken over by foreign invaders - Greeks, and later Arabs. All that would have been impossible if it had the rest of Africa to back it up. Tell me how a small band of Arab fanatics could have faced a combined army of Egyptian troops, Nubian forces, Zulu warriors, Shona warriors, Malian, Ghana forces, Yoruba and Benin archers, and dreaded Igbo headhunters, among others on the continent. They simply wouldn't have bothered trying.

Yeah right , Except in an exceptional situation when the invaders bring cannons and machine guns
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Nobody: 5:35pm On Jun 26, 2015
DaBullIT:


Yeah right , Except in an exceptional situation when the invaders bring cannons and machine guns
The Arab invaders of Egypt did not have firearms. What are you talking about? The Arab invasion of Egypt occurred around 600 AD.
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Shymm3x: 5:36pm On Jun 26, 2015
ROSSIKE:
There would be no "Arabs running around the country" because Arabs would not have been able to invade and settle Egypt in a unified Africa with a central govt and authority.

Lol. I bet you don't know that most Arabs are an admixture between white and black, with a few white and black ones, no? Just as Sicilians and Berbers came mostly from the admixture of the moors and white folks.

If ancient Egypt had colonised the rest of Africa, and let's say they allowed the Hyskos and other Asiatic groups of different races in, like they did before expelling them - they probably would be the ones running the whole continent (or with their offspring like their Arab offspring is doing in Egypt). The Coloureds in South Africa are another classic example.

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Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by publicenemy(m): 5:36pm On Jun 26, 2015
jamaicanoshu:
If Kemet,Nubia , had colonized the rest of Africa our lives today would have been so much better today . Instead of Africa, Ansar the BLACK WAR GOD went and spread Civilization to the rest of the world. He brought writing to India, China, the Far East and the America's. ALL WRITING came out Kemet/Nubia. Why is it that Chinese writing ,Mayan writing, and Kemetic writing(HEIROGLYPHICS) all look so similar. Their clothing and hats were similar. They all had pyramids. They all had divine kings as government with a strong priestly cast. If only he had colonized the rest of Africa first the past 3000 years could have been so different for Africa. Today African's are going on pilgrimages to Rome, Mecca and Israel . They won't go to Egypt to see where those religious ideas were stolen from! The White man ,the Arab and the Jew are busy claiming Ancient Egypt ! Every four months out of Hollywood comes a film trying to make Egypt White. Whilst Africans are busy BLEACHING OUT THEIR MINDS AND BODIES! If we could build those great pyramids; we can surely build our own roads today!

How could they have done that? They didn't have the military, they didn't have the strategic and poloitical perception, and they could not even defend themselves against the Romans and the British. Colonisation didn't start as colonisation, it started with trade. The egyptians were content with themselves and their surroundings.
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Nobody: 5:47pm On Jun 26, 2015
Shymm3x:


Lol. I bet you don't know that most Arabs are an admixture between white and black, with a few white and black ones, no? Just as Sicilians and Berbers came mostly from the admixture of the moors and white folks.

If ancient Egypt had colonised the rest of Africa, and let's say they allowed the Hyskos and other Asiatic groups of different races in, like they did before expelling them - they probably would be the ones running the whole continent (or with their offspring like their Arab offspring is doing in Egypt). The Coloureds in South Africa are another classic example.
Asiatics penetrated Egypt primarily because of Egypt's weakness against the endless military onslaught from the Levant. If Egypt had the power of the rest of Africa behind it which territorial expansion would have afforded it, there would be no way Asiatics would have formed a home in Egypt. They would have been driven out by the Africans.
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by EVarn(m): 6:25pm On Jun 26, 2015
ROSSIKE:
Asiatics penetrated Egypt primarily because of Egypt's weakness against the endless military onslaught from the Levant.If Egypt had the power of the rest of Africa behind it which territorial expansion would have afforded it,there would be no way Asiatics would have formed a home in Egypt.They would have been driven out by the Africans.
Perhaps,or perhaps not.
Indeed the egyptians attempted to conquer vast territory; they defeated the ethiopians{axumites and kushites} and made ethiopia a vassal state during the early ages.
In fact,ambitious phariohs launched military campaigns,besieging assyrian legions in titanic battles and shattering levantine armies,all the while trying to expand its influence and dominion.
But in the end,the greatest hindrance egypt ever encountered was the sahara desert,the egyptian army could not cross the scorching sahara,fearing that their was nothing beyond the useless pile of sand; they didnt believe that their was life beyond the sahara.
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Shymm3x: 6:25pm On Jun 26, 2015
ROSSIKE:
Asiatics penetrated Egypt primarily because of Egypt's weakness against the endless military onslaught from the Levant. If Egypt had the power of the rest of Africa behind it which territorial expansion would have afforded it, there would be no way Asiatics would have formed a home in Egypt. They would have been driven out by the Africans.

Ancient Egypt always had a powerful army and I don't even think they lost any wars till the 18th dynasty or so. The Asiatics penetrated Egypt cos they were allowed to live freely in lower Egypt for a long time and they also married Egyptians. Also, as their population grew, they became part and parcel of Egypt - and when the military onslaught from other Asiatic groups started against Egypt, they joined the other side, rather than fight alongside the Egyptians - hence Egypt was able to lose lower Egypt before any other part of its territory. And the collapse continued from there. By the time the Romans came - Egypt was already weak militarily and divided in two - upper and lower Egypt. With blacks in upper Egypt, while the Asiatic groups and their offspring occupied lower Egypt.

They'd drive them out with the expulsion of the Hyskos. King Menes did unite both upper and lower Egypt - and subsequently King Taharqa from Sudan. But the deed had already been done - Egypt was gone forever. grin

That would have been the same case all over Africa as well. Just take a look at how the Afrikaans got to South Africa and started lording over all the blacks there. Ditto how the whole continent was colonised.
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by mikolo80: 6:30pm On Jun 26, 2015
jamaicanoshu:
If Kemet,Nubia , had colonized the rest of Africa our lives today would have been so much better today . Instead of Africa, Ansar the BLACK WAR GOD went and spread Civilization to the rest of the world. He brought writing to India, China, the Far East and the America's. ALL WRITING came out Kemet/Nubia. Why is it that Chinese writing ,Mayan writing, and Kemetic writing(HEIROGLYPHICS) all look so similar. Their clothing and hats were similar. They all had pyramids. They all had divine kings as government with a strong priestly cast. If only he had colonized the rest of Africa first the past 3000 years could have been so different for Africa. Today African's are going on pilgrimages to Rome, Mecca and Israel . They won't go to Egypt to see where those religious ideas were stolen from! The White man ,the Arab and the Jew are busy claiming Ancient Egypt ! Every four months out of Hollywood comes a film trying to make Egypt White. Whilst Africans are busy BLEACHING OUT THEIR MINDS AND BODIES! If we could build those great pyramids; we can surely build our own roads today!
you remember it took God's own people to escape from their slavery. you might be an egyptians pet by now
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by EVarn(m): 6:43pm On Jun 26, 2015
publicenemy:

How could they have done that? They didn't have the military, they didn't have the strategic and poloitical perception, and they could not even defend themselves against the Romans and the British. Colonisation didn't start as colonisation, it started with trade. The egyptians were content with themselves and their surroundings.
Egypt had the military..well,ancient egypt did have an unrivaled military strength that would have made Rome quake in its boots if it had lasted.
But i agree that they didnt have the strategic perception; if not,they would have marched through the sahara westward to conquer the west african bushmen{later known as bantu tribes} that inhabited west,central and southern africa from Nigeria down through Kitarn to Monomatapa.
But they couldnt break the environmental barrier that was the sahara desert.
We must also consider that just like Rome,Egypt broke apart due to internal strife and prolonged simultaneous sieges.

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Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by oweniwe(m): 6:53pm On Jun 26, 2015
Talk is cheap .....!!..

How do people initially react when they are about to be colonized?

Do they Welcome colonization with open arms?

It involves a lot of wars and bloodshed. At the time, people were still migrating. Those African kingdoms you mentioned ... Benin, zulu, igbo... were they already settled and established in the B.C.... Babylonia/Assyria period? Even China, India and co should be mere bands of villages at the time.

Britain colonized Nigeria abi? After that you people agitated for the British to go... The British left, you made a mess of your country and now you wish Egypt colonized you. I guess you folks think Egypt lost its power only a few decades ago.

There are lotta dumb folks in this country.
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by EVarn(m): 6:58pm On Jun 26, 2015
mikolo80:
you remember it took God's own people to escape from their slavery. you might be an egyptians pet by now
The liberation of the Hebrews{later known as jews} from slavery has little impact on the advent of civilization to africa.The Hebrews broke loose and sank an entire horde of the egyptian army in the Red sea,leaving the flank open for the assyrians to exploit,after plaguing egypt with faminine and pestilence,contaminating the nile and setting egypt to civil unrest.
We all know the story,but what has that got to do with egypt conquering africa?..lol,how would we remain 'slaves' of egypt in the 21th century,hmm?
I believe that africa would have been a better place today if egypt had conquered the continent.
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by EVarn(m): 7:12pm On Jun 26, 2015
DaBullIT:
I disagree with a question
Is Egypt a better country today ?
No,it is not.
But Africa would have been a better place today if egypt had seized the whole continent in a mighty fist of conquest.
Indeed,it would have been inevitable that the continent would break back into different states and federations due to strife after centuries of egyptian domination: History tells us that no empire can ever remain unified after centuries of existence,all empires must rise,decline and then fall{well,except China}.But at least,we would have had civilization and awareness,with greater political stability and military perception.

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Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by totoisgud(m): 7:53pm On Jun 26, 2015
DaBullIT:
I disagree with a question

Is Egypt a better country today ?

Thank u. They hv started with d "WHAT IF" question again. What if this and what if dat. WHAT IF my father was Bill Gates then we wud b d richest family in d world. Or WHAT IF my is Buhari, I wud b able 2 get juicy crude oil allocations. When wud this WHAT IFs end? We should pls accept life as it is.

What is is what it is. The earlier we accept it d better it is 4 us. Pls stop blaming others 4 our shortcomings.

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Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Nobody: 7:55pm On Jun 26, 2015
The rest of Africa at that time to date wanted their own CHANGE so Egypt had to leave them behind.
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by mikolo80: 11:30pm On Jun 26, 2015
EVarn:
The liberation of the Hebrews{later known as jews} from slavery has little impact on the advent of civilization to africa.The Hebrews broke loose and sank an entire horde of the egyptian army in the Red sea,leaving the flank open for the assyrians to exploit,after plaguing egypt with faminine and pestilence,contaminating the nile and setting egypt to civil unrest.
We all know the story,but what has that got to do with egypt conquering africa?..lol,how would we remain 'slaves' of egypt in the 21th century,hmm?
I believe that africa would have been a better place today if egypt had conquered the continent.
it has to do with the suffer wen we for still de suffer
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Nobody: 11:34pm On Jun 26, 2015
Shymm3x:


Ancient Egypt always had a powerful army and I don't even think they lost any wars till the 18th dynasty or so. The Asiatics penetrated Egypt cos they were allowed to live freely in lower Egypt for a long time and they also married Egyptians. Also, as their population grew, they became part and parcel of Egypt - and when the military onslaught from other Asiatic groups started against Egypt, they joined the other side, rather than fight alongside the Egyptians - hence Egypt was able to lose lower Egypt before any other part of its territory. And the collapse continued from there. By the time the Romans came - Egypt was already weak militarily and divided in two - upper and lower Egypt. With blacks in upper Egypt, while the Asiatic groups and their offspring occupied lower Egypt.

They'd drive them out with the expulsion of the Hyskos. King Menes did unite both upper and lower Egypt - and subsequently King Taharqa from Sudan. But the deed had already been done - Egypt was gone forever. grin

That would have been the same case all over Africa as well. Just take a look at how the Afrikaans got to South Africa and started lording over all the blacks there. Ditto how the whole continent was colonised.

Why would it have been he same thing all over Africa? The main reason Africa fell to colonialists in later years was their posession of firearms, which rendered our weapons obsolete. Prior to the introduction of firearms - the whole technology of which eluded Africans mainly because of the Saharan-wrought isolation that had disconnected the continent from mediterranean centred developments of the later periods - the Africans were on a technological par with the Levant and European armies. Everyone was on horseback, bows and arrows and shields. At most differences lay in which nation used iron weapons before the other etc. So there is no basis for claiming all of Africa would have fallen to Asiatic control. Don't forget that even Egypt kept them at bay for several millenia before they finally broke through, and Egypt often led military forays into their regions as well, to keep control of them, sometimes with the assistance of Nubian armies. So it wasn't all one-way in favour of Asiatics as you're suggesting. Africans were nobody's mugs in those days.
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by ikeyman00(m): 11:58pm On Jun 26, 2015
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my friend forget about living in the past the Great Biafra will do the Magic.

But being a Black man i mean daft and stupid to the core u just dnt get it.

Stop your stupidity and envy to support the restoration of kingdom of Chukwuabiama upon the face of Earth.

Mad people
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by SUBMARINE: 12:05am On Jun 27, 2015
LOIUSXIV:
remember that for a long time,. today's CAUCASIAN 'SUper' race was once called barbarians.the Europeans learnt algebra from the arabs and superseded the Arabs themselves.the JAPAN SUCCESS STORY is well known.the 'Black problem' or African problem is self-created.or maybe we should ask God why the black race finds it frustrating to crack the Technology curse and measure up to the Asians&WHITES.Ask Malaysia-colonisation is not an excuse for backwardness.



There is a missing link in our education on technology
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by Nobody: 1:02am On Jun 27, 2015
EVarn:
Perhaps,or perhaps not.
Indeed the egyptians attempted to conquer vast territory; they defeated the ethiopians{axumites and kushites} and made ethiopia a vassal state during the early ages.
In fact,ambitious phariohs launched military campaigns,besieging assyrian legions in titanic battles and shattering levantine armies,all the while trying to expand its influence and dominion.
But in the end,the greatest hindrance egypt ever encountered was the sahara desert,the egyptian army could not cross the scorching sahara,fearing that their was nothing beyond the useless pile of sand; they didnt believe that their was life beyond the sahara.

Not sure about the highlighted. The Egyptians were highly knowledgable, and expended resources on knowledge acquisition. Don't forget they called all of Africa south of Egypt 'Ethiopia' at the time, and they traded with Kush, with its major sub saharan cities like Meroe and Napata. They also traded with other places southwards including the famous but mysterious 'Land of Yam' that was known to be very far south of Egypt.
Re: Ancient Egypt Biggest Mistake Was Failing To Colonize The Rest Of Africa! by PabloAfricanus(m): 1:07am On Jun 27, 2015
@OP

I think the OP and the guys who support his write up have come to the point where a certain level of knowledge has dawned on them...coupled with the attendant inferiority complex(lol).
Yeah for you to wish sub saharan africa was colonized by ancient egypt...after experiencing colonization by the Europeans and the transatlantic slave trade...indicates among other things...
1)A not too subtle declaration of the "inferior" status of your ancestral land and heritage. Ponder on the implications of your statement b4 arguing this.

2) Your just realizing that africans probably were not and are still not ready for civilized government. Incase you want to argue this point...give me an example of a successful African country run by africans without input from the West.

3) While the rest of the world were busy innovating in sciences and technology...whilst the rest of the world had gone beyond reading and writing to establishing public libraries....while the rest of the world were busy opening up schools and institutes...africans were not even aware of what was going on in the rest of the world.

4) While the world was navigating the seas,oceans and charting the skies and stars...their ancestors were busy marrying more wives and sacrificing more innocent human beings on a daily basis to appease gods who went awol when the colonial masters came calling.

5) Maybe the british and french colonial masters should not have left. Maybe they should have stayed on like the boers in SA and inculcated some modernity into the backward african populace. Don't beat it...its the fact, south africa was not built by the zulus and xhosas...its a white thing.
But ofcourse you can prove me wrong.

Admit it...you silently cringe at the realization that the rest of the world had left sub saharan africa behind...millenia ago. I did too.

But the question is...what are u gonna do about it?
Sit around and muse over the glorious slavery in the mines and fields of ancient egypt ur ancestors would have been subjected to by the nubians and other rulers of ancient egypt?
Or imagine what pride you would have been able to flaunt at the whites when you display the cultural dividends of ancient egyptian colonization and slavery of your ancestors by the ancient egyptians? Maybe a pyramid here or two in Ashanti land or Hausa land...maybe some papyrus scrolls buried in some tombs across west africa...to show africans could actually read and write before the islamists and christian loving invaders came?

Get over your day dream bro!
Fold up ur sleeves, engage ur imagination and do something significant in ur lifetime!
It was men of flesh and blood that built those civilizations you secretly envy.
We africans simply lack imagination, self consciousness and discipline.
Nothing whatsoever keeps us from building great and glorious civilizations but our own minds and beliefs.
Maybe angry awakened guys like you can do something about it.

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