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Introduction |
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Since 9-11 it has been important for me as a European/American to read into history to find the root of the problem between Europe and the rest of the world. Not surprisingly, I find at the heart of all these issues the European denial of the origin of everything that is great about European culture. Check the burning of the libraries, in Alexandria, in Carthage, in Timbuktu, in Inquisition Spain, and now in Baghdad, and what emerges is the European attempt to gain global domination by asserting its racial and ethnic uniqueness, attempting to scourge history of evidence that the root of all European thought and culture lies first in Africa, and from Africa straight to Sumeria, which is modern Iraq, 'the cradle of civilization', to the black African Dravidians of India, to Greece (check the Minoans), which most Europeans cite as their mother culture. It was a culture that drew direct from Africa. The Greeks made sure to burn the libraries in Timbuktu in West Africa and asserted that their culture and philosophy were native products of Greece. There have always been Europeans from antiquity to today who have known the truth and told it. And the ancient African philosophies took hold in interesting way in Europe. The art and science of alchemy is an interesting example. The science that Europe prides itself upon, and which it has used in the last 300 years to invent and justify racism and global hegemony, is not native to Europe. One can trace with accuracy the influx of scientific knowledge direct from Islam through Spain, and from European exposure to Islamic civilization through the Crusades. 900 years ago, Europe was a poor and brutal place, the dregs of the defeated Roman Empire, people living in squalor and ignorance, ruled utterly by a Christianity fed to them by the few elites who KNEW the sources of the true knowledge, and drew upon them eagerly. It would surprise most Europeans to know that it was Islamic philosophers like Avicenna and Averroes who taught Christians how to do theology, and philosophy. These two in particular were openly admired by the 'fathers of the Church.' Links: Lectures on Ancient and Medieval European History - The History Guide Oldest 'modern' human skulls found in Africa - University Of California - Berkeley The Real Eve: Out of Africa - by Discovery.com Books: Introduction to African Civilizations by John G. Jackson, Runoko Rashidi, John Henrik Clarke The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal Holy War: the Crusades and their impact on today's world by Karen Armstrong The Knights Templar by Stephen Howarth A good general book on European history is Civilisation: a personal view by Kenneth Clarke. Even though he acknowledges scarcely at all the sources of Europe's flowering. Those with background reading will be able to see.   Copyright © 2003 rootsie.com |
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