Christianity in Ancient Africa [Cyrenaica the African City where Simon of Cyrene was from]

[@mattginting4451]

Thanks for sharing Doc. The hate in the comments don’t make sense. The whole region would have been phenotypically light skin to brown skin (black in the modern day) I think a lot of Berbers or brown skin Arabs who don’t want to be classified as black is a modern advent. It comes from a lot of modern miss-information. Thank for the video.

[@SamuelMutembei-ws4ic]

Even the tower of Babel was built by a cushite African king called Nimrod

[@RayNaraine]

Amazing. God represents all nations of the earth. Beautiful.

[@NathanAdventures1]

You are brilliant I watched both videos please keep it up!! Bring out more very interesting

[@drelizabethadekale]

Thanks!

[@fadelaelzalet8674]

Simon Cyrene was Libyan 🇱🇾 he wasn’t black he was born in Cyrene Benghazi now he had tanned skin with Mediterranean Sea complexion

[@rswilsonart]

its too bad people don't do research to find out that just because Cyrene is in Northern Africa that they assume Simon was a black west coast looking African. Cyrene was actually a Greek settlement with People of Greek decent. The people all along the northern coast were basically of Arab and Berber ethnicities not at all having the appearance of West Africans or even the East coast Sudanese . You can actually google map the ancient town of Cyrene and see the Greek architecture still standing there. So it is actually possible that the man Simon who helped Jesus carry his crucifix was actually Greek. But truthfully, no one knows for sure.

[@h1k0usen13]

I agree with many of the points you make, but it must be mentioned: Arabs are not native to North Africa, only the Imazighen are. Indigenous Amazigh DNA still makes up the majority of the average North African genetic profile to this day (with the exemption of most of Egypt) - from the Siwa oasis and Cyrenaica to Sous in Morocco. Sadly this fact is diminished by people repeating lies countless times without conducting any critical investgation. The motive of this video seems to be that of a typical Afro-centric: an attempt to claim the rich history of North Africa as part of African-American heritage as a result of sheer ignorance and low self-esteem. These people have indirectly established the utterly imbecilic ideology that Africa is a continent of ONE uniform ethnicity and thus ONE phenotype simply known as "black". They disregard the diversity of the continent and its history in the northern region simply to satisfy their desired delusions. It's disrespectful to us North Africans who are already misunderstood and misrepresented enough as is. Regarding Simon's ethnicity, we can only surmise. It is not unlikely that he was of ethnic Greek descent, but we must also take into consideration that he was born way after the establishment of the Cyrenaican pentapolis, and in a region wherein cultural syncretism, conversion and intermarriage were far from uncommon, meaning he could just as well have been a culturally hellenized Amazigh (or "Libyan"). An example for this surmise is ancient Carthage and the Punic world, wherein skeletal remains have yet to yield any extractions of both autosomal and chromosomal dna showing any Levantine-like genetic traces but instead show genetic affinity with North Africans. It's in a way common to assume that every society was endogamous whereas it really wasn't the case, even if it of course varies.

[@rswilsonart]

@@h1k0usen13 thank you for being more in-depth.

[@safa-ed7jq]

Cyrenaica is a region not a city Simon was born in the capital cyrene

[@fadelaelzalet8674]

Yes a lot of mistakes in this video

[@criseldavillalobos5552]

Just wondering are you still doing song writing videos?

[@drelizabethadekale]

Yes I am. I try to balance both history and music contents.

[@kamelleon9131]

Simon wasn't black he was from north Africa

[@drelizabethadekale]

In the ancient period, what we now call “north Africa” was simply “Africa.” The inhabitants of the northern part of Africa were native Africans. So yes Simon or Simeon was Black.

[@kamelleon9131]

@@drelizabethadekale Nope y'all African American need to stop stealing our history I'm from lybia we ain't black Simon was indeed African but NOT black. Ancien North Africa is the same as modern north Africa NOT BLACK

[@drelizabethadekale]

@@kamelleon9131 You said black. Today, he would be classified as “black.” Just as the term “North Africa” is modern, so is the term “black,” which means people with dark-colored skin. Africans are black.

[@kamelleon9131]

@@drelizabethadekale u do ignorant north Africa is AFRICA the people of north Africa are NOT BLACK whether it's ancient or modern time plz stop stealing our history u afrocentric have some issues

[@fadelaelzalet8674]

@@drelizabethadekale no he wasn’t black Libyan ppl are North African have Mediterranean Sea complexion like moamr alghadagi

[@michaeljotoyajackson7294]

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[@drelizabethadekale]

Thanks for sharing!

[@ardayldrm2656]

Uncredited reference from Assassin's Creed: Origins by a Doctor...?

[@robertdavis3036]

Are you certain Simeon in Acts is Simon of Cyrene? I know there are a few Simons in the Bible. Just trying to make sure. Doing research on Simon and ran across this video for more information. God bless you!

[@drelizabethadekale]

From the research out there it seems to be so. Simeon and Simon are the same names just in different languages. Thanks for asking.

[@robertdavis3036]

@@drelizabethadekale You're most welcome! Even though they are the same names, does that necessarily mean they are the same person? For example, I believe there are 9 different Simons that are in the Bible that are each a different person. In that Acts passage, I'm just trying to figure out if that Simeon is the same as Simon of Cyrene. Wrote a screenplay about a fictional descendant of his who is a black woman who slays demons. I appreciate you!!!

[@fadelaelzalet8674]

Stop lies Simon Cyrene wasn’t black he had tanned skin ,so respect our history

[@damianbarnes401]

Lmbo

[@damianbarnes401]

Tyre none as the Phoenicians was actually Africans from the land of Ham which in the bible was called the Canaanites. They went from the coast line of Israel to the island Cyprus and later was called the carthaginians. Hannibal Barca who was a African man who fighting against the Romans with elephants was later defeated by Scipio Africanus.

[@megansummersides4255]

Doesn’t Libya still sell slaves right now?

[@fadelaelzalet8674]

Ask USA and France which destroyed my country !!why African come to my country Libya 🇱🇾 and they know there’s a civil war here ?!get out of my country go to another place

[@h1k0usen13]

seems like someone has consumed too many western media outlet writings

[@ibrahimsasi9215]

Please Stop sharing this laying about my country

[@aroundtheworld2813]

lmao we wuz kangz and shiet north africa from egypt to the the atlantic has never been black

[@fadelaelzalet8674]

Simon Cyrene was Libyan 🇱🇾 he wasn’t black he was born in Cyrene Benghazi now he had tanned skin with Mediterranean Sea complexion