African civilizations

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

In 1884, during the Berlin Conference, the whole African continent was divided among European powers (Great Britain, France, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Spain and the Ottoman Empire).
This was the beginning of the so-called "scramble for Africa", an era of New Imperialism. Europeans were supposed to "bring civilization" to "swarthy backward peoples", just another pretext to steal their natural resources.

But Africans didn't need help from Europe to build prestigious (and sometimes long-lived civilizations).

Everybody knows the civilization of Ancient Egypt. But most of the world's population ignores everything about:
-The Nok culture (Nigeria - 8th Century BC - 9th Century AD)
-The Kingdom of Ghana (West Africa - 8-9th Century AD)
-The Kingdom of Mali (West Africa - 12-14th c.)
-Yorubaland (Nigeria - 12-19th c.)
-The Kingdom of Benin (West Africa - 13-19th c.)
-The Songhai Empire (West Africa - 14-16th c.)
-The Ashanti Empire (Ghana - 18-19th c.)
-The Sokoto Caliphate (West Africa - 19th c.)
-The Kanem-Bornu Empire (Lake Chad - 9-19th c.)
-The Kingdom of Mutapa (Zimbabwe - 11-17th c.)
-The Zulu Kingdom(South Africa - 19th c.)
-Last but not least, the powerful Ethiopian Empire.

some south african ones:
Kingdom of Mapungubwe (9th century–14th century CE)
Kingdom of Zimbabwe (1220–1450 CE)
Kingdom of Mutapa (1430-1760 CE)
Kingdom of Butua (1450-1683 CE)
Torwa dynasty (1450-1683 CE)
Mutapa Empire (1450–1629 CE)


Oyo empire
Bornu Empire
Mandara Kingdom
Bamana Empire
Mossi Kingdoms
Sao civilization
kingdom of Bonoman ( akan) ( akans migrated from the sahara down to near nubia and then westward who formed the ashanti empire)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_p...d_ethnogenesis

Oral traditions of the ruling Abrade (Aduana) Clan relate that they originated from ancient Ghana. They migrated from the north, they went through Egypt and settled in Nubia (Sudan). Around 500AD (5th century), due to the pressure exerted on Nubia by Axumite kingdom of Ethiopia, Nubia was shattered, and the Akan people moved west and established small trading kingdoms. These kingdoms grew, and around 750AD the Empire of Ghana was formed. The Empire lasted from 750AD to 1200AD and collapsed as a result of the introduction of Islam in the Western Sudan, and the zeal of the Muslims to impose their religion: their ancestors eventually left for Kong (i.e. present day Ivory Coast). From Kong they moved to Wam and then to Dormaa (both located in present day Brong-Ahafo region). The movement from Kong was necessitated by the desire of the people to find suitable savannah conditions since they were not used to forest life. Around the 14th century, they moved from Dormaa South Eastwards to Twifo-Hemang, North West Cape Coast. This move was commercially motivated.[7]
Benin kingdom

Some old benin kingdom Art ( Edit ) oen of two of these is probably yoruba Oyo art. The benin come from Yoruba Oyo I think. But they later ended up warring. The Plaque of the soldiers is benin though.

Spoiler!

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nok/hd_nok.htm

Nok terracotta art 200BC - 500AD

Spoiler!

Dogon not an empire but interesting are supposed believed to have some descent from egypt.
Nsude Pyramids. Not the most impressive. But interesting they wanted to make some. So they must have been interacting with nubians or egyptians


Sankore mosque is interesting looking


Old pages Library of timbuktu

Nok was making metal 500 bc at least by then. Nok are the ancestors of Yoruba and others
http://archive.archaeology.org/1107/...erracotta.html

[Dr. Robotnik the Subbotnik]

Everyone keeps talking about North-Africans and Horners (Caucasoid-mixed Africans).

Let's see some Sub-Saharan (pure Negroid) achievements!

[Dr. Robotnik the Subbotnik]

some south african ones:
Kingdom of Mapungubwe (9th century–14th century CE)
Kingdom of Zimbabwe (1220–1450 CE)
Kingdom of Mutapa (1430-1760 CE)
Kingdom of Butua (1450-1683 CE)
Torwa dynasty (1450-1683 CE)
Mutapa Empire (1450–1629 CE)


Oyo empire
Bornu Empire
Mandara Kingdom
Bamana Empire
Mossi Kingdoms
Sao civilization
kingdom of Bonoman ( akan) ( akans migrated from the sahara down to near nubia and then westward who formed the ashanti empire)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_p...d_ethnogenesis

Some old benin kingdom Art

Spoiler!

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nok/hd_nok.htm

Nok terracotta art 200BC - 500AD

Spoiler!

Dogon not an empire but interesting are supposed believed to have some descent from egypt.
Nsude Pyramids

The Benin stuff is cool.

[Dominicanese]

Ethiopians and other Horners are ~50% Eurasian (Caucasoid).

Please tell us about ~100% Negroid (Bantu etc.) civilizations.

Edit: And how about some Australian kingdoms and empires?

i posted one

about the ancient giant Nigerian city, believed to be one of the largest cities ever in the world

and these guys were Blacks, blacker than the Nigerians there today or the same

[Dominicanese]

thats another good point though

i wonder if Australia has any ancient cities

i don't see why not

im gonna look into it though, it be pretty interesting to see what the ancient Australians did

[Defiance]

Is this a question of race, or merely one of geography? The constructs of Sudan and Ethiopia are indeed fairly impressive, but I wonder if there's really any evidence that they were built by Negroids (and no, such a thing should not be assumed).

[Peterski]

This is actually pretty impressive.

Some Sub-Saharan societies had really advanced metallurgy.

Here some more Sub-Saharan art:

https://www.google.pl/search?client=...zoi4DA#imgrc=_

[Peterski]

it be pretty interesting to see what the ancient Australians did

https://www.google.pl/search?q=Austr...tBAjEQ_AUIBigB

[Amor Vincit Omnia]

Age of Empires II: The African Kingdoms

[Amor Vincit Omnia]

seriously now

there is a lot about africa in general and very much about african history, Kingdoms and civilizations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_empires