Black Athena debate part 3

What is Classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thiking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eihjteenth century chiefty for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers or Aryans from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this "Aryan model" They did not see their political institutions, science, philosophy, or religion as original, but rther as derived from the East in general, and Egypt in particular.

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Education

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• classical
• civilization
• greek
• greece
• egypt

[flamezstr33t]

very good information

[blackhaze21]

yeah, you should read the book too

[amergk]

Reuters & Discovery Channel.showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, more than 50%t of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating they share a common ancestor.Modern-day Egyptians this haplogroup is below 1%, to iGENEA Scientists at Zurich DNA genealogy centre, reconstructed DNA of TUT..Not only are Greeks not Black but the Egyptians they say came from weren't black either. The black afro-centric myth is over.

[Vikaarahetu]

Thank you. They will never understand. When I say they im not talking about white people. Im talking about people who are intellectually retarded. Plenty of white, black, and asian scholars seek truth.

[tw1704]

I agree with you. I just want to make sure Africa and the African contribution to the world is restored. If more scholars were honest we wouldn't be discussing this issue.

[ticazz]

the answer is , through out history..and so what if they had identical cultures , we still lie on the same continent and great cultures are just great , ancients didnt see skin colour is relevant to anything, before adopting some cultures and that what made egypt great, that its ethnic diversity helps to bring from every culture.

[tw1704]

The only empire that has almost exactly the same culture and art is south in Ethiopia. No Persian or European culture of that time had these similarities but south of Egypt(Kmt). The real question is what years did outside cultures enter Egypt.

[ticazz]

the first man was a black man, i know this...but egypt lies on on the center between the arabs on the right and africans on the left and greece to the north..people from all over went to egypt during ancient times and now, as a result you will find modern egyptians tanned skin with african face features, and that show that egypt is diverse in its ethincity

[tw1704]

In your own, where did this Egyptain race originate?