India's 4000+ Year-Old Influence in Africa |

How did India influence ancient Africa?
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[@srinivasyanamandra9019]

In most of the countries most people also follow Sanatan Dharma like life style. And we can find pure vigetarians also in many parts.

[@bhartiyasena9189]

Abhijit is a good to answer to those western history pushers good work my friend I appreciate your work

[@physicswithfun4978]

Abhijit you will play a vital role in making our country VISWAGURU again

[@shirshaheen288]

Masha Allah bro, you nailed it. All the Cushitic ethnic tribes in the horn- whether Oromo, Somali, Afar, Saho, Beja& etc: used and still use a clothing code which are indistinguishable from from one another that has a deep Indian subcontinent connection- unlike the Arab, Habesha or Bantu codes. And also the head wearings for both genders and vegetation as a whole& etc. I was always very surprised to see - from indian movies and films- how our culture and clothing codes are similar, and how we shared trade and culture relations throughout ages. Very insightful, God bless you. well done.

[@thatguybutitsactuallyagirl5384]

India got them out of Africa

[@xi_c_ayushprashar5950]

@@thatguybutitsactuallyagirl5384 No.

[@Rishi123456789]

@@thatguybutitsactuallyagirl5384 Nope.

[@debrupchakraborty6027]

I pray to God that the name of this blood demon of hell named allah uttered just now may not pollute our ears or our conscience.

[@avishekkumarmandal5464]

Don't follow Islamic cult

[@priyeshmishra5535]

Sir please tell us something about roots of yogic traditions in eastern Europe. I have watched a video of Sadhguru discovering an ancient shivling in Turkey.

[@nishajaihindajain9192]

You can refer SUKREEVAS ATLAS . You will find till the Alos mountain of Europe we had our culture spread . Alos mountain is called ASTAGIRI in that Sugreev khandam . Sugreeva just explainsRam where all the possibility of Ravan taking sita ??

[@salmandirir]

To say that India influenced Africa is reductive. Unless you're saying the influence went both ways (African cultures and India exchanging their influences) but I am not getting that out of your video. I think the influence was from two sides as they traded with each other. Being a Somali I am aware of how the Puntites traded with India just as they did with ancient Egypt. In this trade a lot gets exchanged and to say this exchange comes from one side seems unreasonable and a bit biased if you're saying it as an Indian in this context. I am still very interested in how both cultures have influenced each other as I think there is a lot of valuable information to take from it.

[@priyeshmishra5535]

Sir please tell us something about pre islamic Arabia. Is this true that there was ruler called Vikramaditya who conquered whole Arabia and up till Caspian sea. I have seen some historians claiming also removed then roman empire from his throne. Is this just random rumours or there's any historical backing behind it

[@ManMAVERICK]

Yes there was - Vikramaditya 1

[@rajeshkandukuri1042]

There's a video made by him

[@vidyanathreddy4749]

Thanks Sir for this Video. It is evident that there is an unmistakable Indian influence on many countries of Africa.

[@naturetalkswithshivdatt6395]

Zebu cattle fact was Very interesting 👌👌👌

[@bhartiyasena9189]

it is bcz it lies in old maritime routes of indian trades may be that is why

[@Life-A-Blessing]

Great one! Amazing explanation sir :-😃 Ya the women look quite Indian 😀 Also africans use moringa(drumsticks) in their diet a lot which is also used in south India as a common diet. If we check KZbin videos of tradition home remedies of African women ,some are similar to Indian remedies ! Another thing is map of Africa and India can be joined exactly into one another .Is it true that the land was separated due to some earthquake or land shift or whatever and were the Himalayas formed that time. Also some rocks found in both places are similar . Does Mahabharata mention africa anywhere ? Thank u for your valuable endeavour in educating the world .Your videos need to reach all over world and also should be shared with students of history,geography ,genetic studies , competitive exams, military and also ordinary people .Thank u .God bless !

[@theybecameus]

Jai Shree Ram 🚩🔥💪

[@behappy8248]

#AskAbhijit This is a question related to the topic :- [The Greek sources repeatedly mention that Indians, Egyptians and Ethiopians were related, and that Indians travelled to Egypt bringing knowledge to the land. Indeed, similarities between Ancient Indian and Egyptian sciences and philosophies can't be ignored. But surprisingly, there's just one insignificant mention of Egypt in Indian sources (in Ashokan edicts).] Question: Is there any other mention of Egypt in Indian records? What did the Ancient Indians call Egypt?

[@Ava-fl7hd]

Hey, I don't know the whole answer but mesopotamia and India had trade relations and mesopotamia was a middle guy in the trade of a metamorphic rock (I forgot the name) between India (south east Asia) and Egypt. So it's probable that India has some texts that mention Egypt.

[@behappy8248]

@@Ava-fl7hd Are you talking about Lapis Lazuli? That was a major export from South Asia to Mesopotamia and Egypt in ancient times. I know there are huge chances of Egypt being mentioned in Indian sources because of trade and other connections... I'm just looking for the right word, i.e., the Sanskrit name. 😐

[@behappy8248]

@@Ava-fl7hd Hey btw, I know this much that in the Ashokan edicts, Egypt is called *Turamya,* which means the kingdom of Turami (Sanskrit for Ptolemy), but there Egypt is only mentioned as a Greek nation under the Yona (Sanskrit/Pali for 'Greek') rule of the Ptolemic Dynesty, i.e., after Alexander's invasion. But what about the true Egypt before it became a Greek colony?

[@Ava-fl7hd]

@@behappy8248 yes lapis lazuli was what I meant. Talking about Egypt, there must be a name for it maybe in the Harappan seals, or after that in some texts that didn't survive. Honestly speaking, this is the most I know about history, I'm a math person and I was just intrigued by this channel, your comment did open up some great topics to research on though.

[@khoslark]

@@Ava-fl7hd Lapis Lazuli is called Lajward or Rajawat in Hindi/ Sanskirt language & this blue colour stone also used in ayurveda& unani medicines even now.

[@prathmesh4049]

Sir, if Marathas were victorious in 3rd battle of Panipat or that battle would have never happened, would India be never colonized? And how would India be today?

[@shirokun4742]

Portuguese east india company pehla hi india agai thi Muslim king na weapon bhi lena shuru kardiya tha Maratha ko harane ka liya

[@prathmesh4049]

@@shirokun4742 lol wo Mughals, adil shahi, Nizam sab Marathas ko hara nahi paye, ulta maratha ne Mughalo ko India se ukhad ke pheka, bus dehli tak hi tha unka kingdom wo bhi maratha puppet. Portuguese atae ya na aate koi pharak nahi padta

[@deepakmaan5023]

@@prathmesh4049 Bhai I Tell You Aala Singh Tha Harami Jisne Ahmed Shah Abdali Ke Saath Deal Ki Aur Marathao Ko Dhoka Diya Yeh 100% Sach Hai

[@kapildevtiwari730]

India's Ruler's and Traded connected with Routed through Horn of Africa to Egypt.

[@rohangupta6508]

You do a great job sir

[@kaushalshinde2459]

Was western & European countries existed at the time of treta yug & द्वापर युग?

[@smitabindoo6504]

Hats off to Abhijeet sir for his deep knowledge and reaching out to the people on KZbin with his very interesting and informative short videos..

[@aditichavan3427]

Very nice and in depth explanation 👌👌👌...also nice topics suggested for Historians to research...

[@111saibaba]

Mr. Abhijit you can watch Praveen Mohan vedios explaining pictures of African, animals on some temple carvings of South India as part of kings cavalry . How they became part of Indian defence system in ancient times.

[@amitnagar4256]

U r a geniune historian sir g

[@dhamalsri]

Hi Abhijit, Thanks, very interesting. Apart from East Africa. The Language of one of the isolated tribes in West Africa seems to have a great similarity - many many words identical to Old Tamil. Funnily enough the other neighbouring tribes in the region do not show similar association. Many mysteries waiting to be solved.

[@Rishi123456789]

What is this language?

[@persistedframes5536]

@@Rishi123456789 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIjccox9oauNoM0

[@ChandranPrema123]

yeah dont forget that First Indians migrated from East Africa(Ethiopa, Somalia)

[@badarinathnagarajarao8846]

Your research and presentation is extremely interesting..your knowledge of many many things is superb..

[@rkpraveen123]

Thank you soo much for the vedio 🙏🏻, God Bless You 🙌

[@HideandSeek11]

Once I went to a food and cultural festival and many ladies of Africa and Arabia were wearing Rajasthani kind of dress with a bindi

[@abdirahmaanmohamed1582]

As Somali those girls are ours wearing cultural dresses

[@drvren030]

if you watch the film Black Panther, there's actually a scene which was cut from the original film, in which the tribal leader says "glory to hanuman" before fighting with T'challa

[@krishan6331]

Thank you sir🙏

[@ronin5929]

#AskAbhijit Sir, what about similarities between Ram and Ramses of Egypt. I am finding it hard to make a head and tell of it and come to a conclusion. Can you please shed some light.

[@luvnishs9928]

When Abhijit Ji pronounces Kozhikode as " KOLIKAUDE " Me as a Malayali : *facepalm* XD

[@Idk-ks4ch]

It's natural because his mother tongue has no zh word.

[@deepakrai3495]

@@Idk-ks4ch what's his mother tongue??

[@Idk-ks4ch]

@@deepakrai3495 Hindi may be. He has a Hindi channel but he has not started a channel of any other language.

[@trulytrulyawesome1051]

@@deepakrai3495 he's a gujarati born and bred

[@trulytrulyawesome1051]

@@Idk-ks4ch gujarati is his mt.

[@goodmirning78]

Indian influence in South America please comment, considering a video by Mr.praven mohan

[@logannaidoo9667]

Indians ventured into Africa prospecting for gold - there was some evidence of this activity in the Nelspruit area of South Africa -

[@plka4721]

Can you make a video on origins of srilankan ppl /Buddhist cause they say they are north Indian some say Bengali !?

[@ajaydalaya2195]

They are from Bihar.

[@22051973jigu]

Since times immemorable, India had trade ties with Africa, middle east and europe from western coast, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc from eastern coast and china, mangolia & europe through silk route.

[@guyugodana9488]

What you are saying is true am kenyan somali and we call that clothes garbsar

[@majesticone12]

African- Americans Historians have been taking about this for years, of India and Africa connection. However when the topic would comes up Indians would get offended by saying there is no connection between India and Africa.

[@lauvsingh7368]

👌👍👍👌👍👌👍

[@borg11276]

Sir I have a theory. I feel the people of horn of Africa look so similar may be because Indian subcontinent could have been broken off of east of Africa region and drifted into Asia.

[@the_pr3d4t0r8]

No one would survive such clash. Moreover that actually happened Millions of Years Ago, way way before the humans even existed on this earth.

[@justicebydeathnote]

yes , that did happen after the breaking up of pangea/gondwana but humans werent around at that time

[@majesticone12]

I never thought of India breaking apart from Africa 🤔 and drift I into Asia.

[@harikrishnanvinod3342]

Hail Hanuman !!!!!

[@sanjusingh-td8yq]

Sir please make video in Hindi also

[@akshatkumar8877]

#AskAbhijit how do you read ? And what is your insight into reading?

[@chirubhaiambani]

also the many broken language is similar to tamil.

[@raghukc2024]

Some ethiopians look like Indians . It's Kozhikode (calicut) not kolikode 😊

[@mytube12]

Oldest civilization order imo Australian aboriginals African aborginals Indian Chinese or Asian European.

[@ambarjm3300]

#AskAbhijit do you agree with west bengal was hardcore communist back then and when people used to apply for army they are required to proof they do not communist ideology

[@meghnaroy3965]

#ask Abhijit was sati a practice followed by the people sanathan dharma or wasit introduced by any invader?

[@abhijaypandey9405]

Sati was started during Invaders of Muslim rulers .... Because Mughals used to kidnap Hindu girls and women and other king's Queen /wife for their sex slaves . Mughals used to kill all the male family members of that women so that they can easily take her with them To save themselves from being sex slaves , they had no only option but to do suicide by burning alive

[@irondisulfide7480]

I think abhijit sir has discussed about it in one of his videos. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6rMZZSmhrODntE Look for the pinned comment to skip to the relevant part.

[@meghnaroy3965]

@@irondisulfide7480 thanks

[@rejoanbary2155]

@@abhijaypandey9405 the mughals had mostly Hindu soldiers.

[@littlewomen250]

In Mahabharat yuddha when Karn died ,his wife became sati,also in Ramayana ,when one of the sons of Ravna died his wife became sati,so it has nothing to do with the invaders

[@kunaltrivedy]

swahili has many,many hindi words

[@guyugodana9488]

In somali and oromo tribe the head is called matha just like bangla also is called matha

[@rajivkasar3471]

Sir , is Darwin's theory of evolution correct ?

[@suvratpandit5701]

A genuine question to you. What makes you think that it's incorrect?

[@mytube12]

It's correct but incomplete.

[@debrupchakraborty6027]

He did not account for jumps in genetic variations, he only theorized small changes over long periods of time although fossil records show large changes in step discontinuities

[@mowgli5837]

@@suvratpandit5701 it is incomplete. Extreme circumstances may make species adopt some traits and also revert back to old traits which are not required. For example, elephants could adopt more hairs during ice ages and may shed hair during normal times. So in that case you can say theory of Darwin was not absolute. I may be incorrect. But then nobody proved it yet.

[@africanherbsman9488]

Africans where in India first.

[@vipinvijay4449]

hahahaha how by waht means.reached by swimming.stop reading harvard propaganda bullshits.

[@vipinvijay4449]

@@tshidi129 prove it if it is?welcome

[@anthonyjeenarine1279]

Vasko de gama did not discover india

[@farmerhajthagodisaiditfirs4354]

Why is it Indian influence in Africa and not the other way around? If people migrated out of Africa and into India, wouldn't it make more sense that Africans continued to explore beyond Africa and brought their cultural influneces into India? As a corollary point, when I hear certain Indian music it reminds me of African music with its syncopated patterns. Would you make a similar argument that Indians brought their musical stylings into Africa, that Africans brought ot to India, or that the perceived similarities or coincidence?

[@abhimanyujha5550]

People migrated millions of years ago from Africa and at that time clothes weren't a thing and these clothes are made up of materials that can't be found in Africa but is available in India and plus there's record of Indians visiting Africa but not the other way round

[@abhimanyujha5550]

@@tshidi129 i am not talking about clothes i am talking about clothes in this particular video which isnt african

[@salmandirir]

@@abhimanyujha5550 There has been an exchange between Africa and India after the mass immigration you're talking about. To say this influence came from one side (as a african or Indian) is reductive and very biased. When cultures trade it makes most sense they influence each other. Especially when these cultures already had their clothes, materials, knowledge systems.

[@shaibalchowdhury1246]

Sir why the genghis khan descendent left buddhism and adopted islam ?

[@rejoanbary2155]

@Arati G Descendants of chengiz khan liked Islam because it is a legal and just tradition. Besides even buddhist kings have multiple wives and concubines m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXrKdZV9lNqJiM0

[@rejoanbary2155]

It's more like africa influenced India, or both influenced each other.

[@hiddendagger7291]

India were more civilized and mordern so how would Africa influence India

[@TheCell111]

@@hiddendagger7291 Wrong since there were african civilizations more advanced and more modern then india and more civilized.Heck arabs wrote about the mande west african highly advanced civilizations like mali and ghana and said they were the most civilized folks they know.

[@TheCell111]

Medieval Attitudes on Black Morality The high esteem the ancients held blacks carried on into the Middle Ages. Ibn Battuta, writing about the 14th century West African Kingdom of Mali, recorded: "The small number of acts of injustice that one finds there, for the Negroes are of all peoples those who most abhor injustice…Complete and general safety one enjoys throughout the land."26 Furthermore, he recorded that; "Their sultan shows no mercy to anyone who is guilty of the least act of it. There is complete security in the country. Neither traveler nor inhabitant in it has anything to fear from robbers or men of violence. They do not confiscate the property of any white (meaning Arab) man who dies in their country, even if it be uncounted wealth. On the contrary, they give it into the charge of some trustworthy person among the whites (Arabs), until the rightful heir takes possession of it." Writing in 1622 about the Kingdom of Benin, a Dutchman, Olfert Dapper, recorded that, "These Negroes…are people who have good laws and a well-organized police; who live on good terms with the Dutch and other foreigners who come to trade among them, and to whom they show a thousand marks of friendship." In the 1480's the king of Benin sent an ambassador to Portugal who was described by the Portuguese as, "a man of good speech and natural wisdom" who, "desired to learn more about these lands." They said that, "the arrival of people from…his country being regarded as an unusual novelty." Portugal and Benin had excellent relations. Duarte Pires, a royal agent in Benin, wrote in 1516, "The favour which the king of Benin accords us is due to his love of your highness; and thus he pays us high honour and sets us at table to dine with his son, and no part of his court is hidden from us but all the doors are open." Pires also recorded that the king of Benin, "ordered a church to be built in Benin; and they made them Christians straightway; and also they are teaching them to read, and your highness will be very pleased to know that they are very good learners." A European traveler around 1680 recorded that the people of the Guinea Coast are, "very civil and good-natured people, easy to be dealt with, condescending to what Europeans require of them in a civil way, and very ready to return double the presents we make them." Following a visit to the court of the Ugandan king in 1875, Henry Morton Stanley wrote that the king was neither, "tyrannous savage," nor "wholesale murderer," as had been told in European fables, "but a pious Mussulman and an intelligent humane king reigning absolutely over a vast section of Africa, loved more than hated, respected more than feared." Heinrich Barth, a 19th century German traveler, recorded that in the Nigerian town of Kano, "a whole family may live in that country with ease, including every expense, even that of clothing." All too familiar with the terrible conditions of the Victorian sweatshops in Europe, Barth wrote: "If we consider that this industry (textile manufacturing) is not carried on here as in Europe, in immense establishment degrading man to the meanest condition of life, but that it gives employment and support to families without compelling them to sacrifice their domestic habits, we must presume that Kano ought to be one of the happiest countries in the world; and so it is so long as its governor, too often lazy and indolent, is able to defend its inhabitants from the cupidity of their neighbors, which of course is certainly stimulated by the very wealth of this country." Clearly, the ancient and medieval sources destroy the myth that black people are naturally inclined to act immorally or without reflection. Mungo Park, passing through the Bambara capital of Ségou two years after Diarra's 1795 death, recorded a testament to the Empire's prosperity: The view of this extensive city, the numerous canoes on the river, the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding countryside, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence that I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa.

[@TheCell111]

Black and White Morality "For the Ethiopians (Greek and Roman name for all Negroid people) are said to be the justest men and for that reason the gods leave their abode frequently to visit them." -Lactantius Placidus, a 6th century AD grammarian "The Negroes are of all peoples those who most abhor injustice…Complete and general safety one enjoys throughout the land (Mali Empire in West Africa)." Ibn Battua, 14th century Arab scholar who had traveled to China, India, East Africa, North Africa, and finally Mali. Many people believe that blacks are innately more inclined to act immorally and less able to control their behavior. Many cite the inner cities and Africa as proof. Does history disprove that stereotype? Without a doubt is does; before the Atlantic slave trade foreigners regularly commented on Negroes moral character and love for justice. Ancient Attitudes on Black Morality Europe's first written stories highlight the Ethiopian's (Greek and Roman name for all black people) morality and noble character. In the Iliad, Homer--explaining why the Olympian Gods loved the Ethiopians more than any other people and visited them for an annual twelve day feast--described blacks as, "Blameless Ethiopians." Homer also wrote: For Zeus had yesterday to Ocean's bounds Set forth to feast with Ethiopia's faultless men, And he was followed there by all the gods…4 Memnon, the "King of the Ethiopians," who came to the aid of Priam at Troy, is shown as having an unusually noble character; In battle he slays Antilochus, then, in one of the more sympathetic moments of the epic, spares Antilochus's defenseless father. Memnon later became a hero in Greece, Egypt, Nubia, and Meroe (a powerful black kingdom in Ethiopia and the Sudan). Alexander the Great even wanted to visit the Kingdom of Meroe because it was believed to be the birthplace of Memnon. In Egypt's southern city of Thebes there were two colossi of Memnon, both built by Ethiopians. One of the two colossi attracted a large number of tourists; many believing that it sang at dawn. Callistratus, an Athenian statesman and orator, regarded the colssi as a miracle that surpassed even the skill needed to build the masterpiece of Daedalus."8 At sunrise Egyptians in Memphis made sacrifices to the statue of the Negro king. Odysseus's herald Eurybates, who Homer described as having black skin and woolly hair, had an extraordinarily noble character; the hero Odysseus held him in higher esteem than anyone else because he believed they had similar minds. Interpreting the Homeric references about the Ethiopians Diodorus, a famous ancient Sicilian historian, wrote: "And they say that they (Ethiopians) were the first to be taught to honor the gods and to hold sacrifices and festivals and processions and festivals and the other rites by which men honor the deity; and that in consequence their piety has been published abroad among all men, and it is generally held that the sacrifices practiced among the Ethiopians are those which are the most pleasing to heaven. As witness to this they call upon the poet who is perhaps the oldest and certainly the most venerated among the Greeks; for in the Iliad he represents both Zeus and the rest of the gods with him as absent on a visit to Ethiopia to share in the sacrifices and the banquet which were given annually to the Ethiopians for all the gods together….And they state that by reason of their piety towards the deity, they manifestly enjoy the favor of the gods, inasmuch as they have never experienced the rule of an invader from abroad; for from all time they have enjoyed a state of freedom and of peace one with another, and although many and powerful rulers have made war upon them, not one of these has succeeded in his undertaking." Many other famous Greco-Roman writers commented on the Ethiopians' piety. Dionysius, like Homer, wrote that the Ethiopians were godlike and blameless. Aelian believed that Ethiopia is where the gods bathed." Stobaeus recorded that the Ethiopians do not need doors on their homes and do not steal the possessions that their neighbors leave in the street. In one of Heliodorus's plays an Ethiopian king, Hydaspes, is a model of morality and justice. The king does not condemn people to death, and sends out messengers to tell his military troops not slaughter the enemy, but to let them live when they have been defeated. The king proclaimed, "A noble thing it is to surpass an enemy in battle when he is standing but in generosity when he has fallen." Lactantius Placidus, a 6th century AD grammarian wrote, "Certainly they (Ethiopians) are loved by the gods because of justice. This even Homer indicates in the first book by the fact that Jupiter frequently leaves heaven and feasts with them because of their justice and the equity of their customs. For the Ethiopians are said to be the justest men and for that reason the gods leave their abode frequently to visit them." In the second century AD a marble sarcophagus, commemorating the triumph of the God Bacchus, used two Negro boys as symbols of innocence. In a Greek play about Alexander the Great, an Ethiopian queen told Alexander: "we are whiter and brighter in our souls than the whitest of you." The religion of Ethiopian immigrants, Isiac, spread throughout the Greco-Roman world because of the Ethiopians renowned piety. The Greek and Roman adherents of Isiac were excited to learn from Merotic immigrants. Juvenal, a 1st and 2nd century A.D Roman satirical poet, recorded that some wealthy Greek, Roman, and Egyptian Isiac noblemen even made a pilgrimage to Meroe in order to obtain its holy water." In the ancient and medieval Arab-world Nubian slaves were often used as financial assistants because they were thought of as honest and trustworthy." A 9th century biography on the prophet Muhammad, by Ibn Hisham, tells of a story where Muhammad instructs those who are being persecuted in Mecca to "go to Abyssinian (Ethiopia), you will find a king under whom none are persecuted. It is a land of righteousness where God will give you relief from what you are suffering." Ancient Attitudes on White Morality White people, on the other hand, were not given such high praise. The ancient people of Greece and Rome believed that the pale skinned people to their north, with their long and yellow, brown, and red hair, were immoral and inferior savages--just as intensely as whites would later regard blacks. The Greek geographer, Strabo, writing about the 7th century Celts, commented: "Concerning this island, I have nothing further to tell…except that its inhabitants are more savage than the Britons, since they are man-eaters…they count it an honorable thing, when their fathers die, to devour them, and openly to have intercourse with their mothers and sisters." Diodoros wrote the following about a white clan he visited: "It is their custom, enduring the course of the meal, to seize upon any trivial matter as an occasion for disputation and then to challenge one another to single combat, without any regard for their lives." The Greek traveler-writer Pausanias, after witnessing a ritual where the Arkadians--a people to the north of Rome--killed, dismembered, and devoured children, had this reaction: "I was reluctant to pry into the details of this sacrifice…Let them be as they are and were from the beginning." Writing about the Gauls, located in modern day France, Caesar recorded: "They believe that the execution of those who have been caught in the act of theft or robbery or some crime is more pleasing to the immortal gods, but when the supply of such fails they resort to the execution of the innocent." Herodotus, the famous 5th century BC historian--often called the "The Father of History"--recorded some of the many savage practices of the Sythians, a people in modern Russia. One of the practices consisted of sowing together the scalps of people whom they had had a confrontation with in order to make a cloak: "The Scyth is proud of these scalps and hangs them from his bridle-rein…The greater the number of such napkins that a man can show the more highly is he esteemed among them….They treat the skulls of their kinsmen in the same way, in cases where quarrels have occurred….When important visitors arrive, these skulls are passed around and the host tells the story of them: how they were once his relatives and made war against him, and how he defeated them--all of which passes for a proof of courage." Plato, just as white supremacist would later feel about dark skinned people, believed a war against those northern barbarians existed by nature.

[@TheCell111]

African civilizations talk Ancient Attitudes on Black Morality Ghana A rich and powerful gold kingdom. He is the richest sovereign on Earth." -Ibn Hawkel, 10th century North African geographer on Ghana's king Mali An empire larger than Western Europe. Its prosperity and morality gave the empire great international prestige. "It's inhabitants are rich and live comfortably." -Mahmud Kati, famous medieval Syrian scholar Songhay An Empire larger than Mali that was renowned for its scholarly culture and complex government. "(Surpassed) all other Negroes in wit, civility, and industry." -Leo Africanuas, 16th Century Spanish Moor Kongo A provincial government with an advanced system of checks and balances. Zimbabwe A feudal kingdom that has obtained fame for its large stone structures. Swahili Coast A very advanced merchant civilization that traded with India, China, the Mid East, the interior of Africa, and North Africa. Bornu One of the longest lasting kingdoms of all time. Renowned and feared for its armored knights and cavalry. Benin (AD 13th-19th) A highly organized forest kingdom that had much direct interaction with the first Portuguese merchants. They are renowned for their naturalistic art. Ethiopia, in the Middle ages A highly advanced Christian civilization known for its military might, close relationship with the Portuguese and magnificent architecture. Ancient Nubia One of the world's most powerful ancient kingdoms; it halted the Roman, Greek, Assyrian, and Persian conquerors- it even ruled over Egypt for a time. It built pyramids, palaces, and other great architectural feats. It also developed its own written language. Ancient Aksum (Ethiopia) One of the richest and most powerful kingdoms in ancient times; it even ruled over Southern Arabia for several centuries. It is known for inventing the first castle and developing its own written language.

[@heeraksingh4722]

Abhijit ji are Sikhs also Hindus like how Buddhists are Hindus?

[@Dkguerilla]

Who cares. We’re all bounded together by atleast something . It shouldn’t matter.

[@aryanparasar4138]

absolutely.. the people who followed guru nank dev ji were all hindus

[@abhijaypandey9405]

@@aryanparasar4138 Guru Nanak Dev Ji was born in Kshatriya Rajput Hindu family .... That's why Sikh also use Singh surname just like Rajput

[@kartikbhatia7823]

There was a rule set by guru Gobind ji that 1st child of every Rajput in Punjab was dedicated to sikh Panth . That’s how sikhism found and spreaded

[@Truthseeker371]

Yet, Indians in Africa cause economic and social frictions with the local Black-Africans. Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Namibia, just to mention a few. British shouldn't have indentured them to work in Africa, South Pacific Islands, and Central America.

[@amritachakraborty8880]

Eai balar add gulo valo lage na

[@sayann_07]

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