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10-08-2018, 04:39 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUFY8Rwv5yE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcGaWVNG_us&t=95s
Came across this video by chance and I thought it was just silly.
It's a theory, apparently based on linguistics, that Baekje, the southwestern Korean kingdom from the Three Kingdoms of Korea period, and Japan of the time, were originally black. Apparently, China massacred all the blacks after its conquest of Baekje and concealed the existence of blacks in some kind of a conspiracy.
Of course, there's clear evidence that that's not the case.
Baekje, at least its ruling class, originated from the Korean kingdom Goguryeo, way up from the north. They migrated to the Han river valley and founded Seoul, and they eventually conquered the southern neighbors and founded the Baekje kingdom. The original inhabitants before this conquest are now theorized to have been Japonic peoples.
And there was no genocide. China tried to assimilate the Koreans but they failed and was eventually kicked out.
And finally, the contemporary depiction of Korean envoys to China during the Three Kingdoms of Korea period. This includes Baekje, Goguryeo and Shilla:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ec/7th_century_painting_of_Koreans.png/220px-7th_century_painting_of_Koreans.png
Clearly not black. And it's not that the artist lacked skill in spotting the differences:
http://www5.kjclub.com/UploadFile/exc_board_63/2011/08/25/131418989712.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcGaWVNG_us&t=95s
Came across this video by chance and I thought it was just silly.
It's a theory, apparently based on linguistics, that Baekje, the southwestern Korean kingdom from the Three Kingdoms of Korea period, and Japan of the time, were originally black. Apparently, China massacred all the blacks after its conquest of Baekje and concealed the existence of blacks in some kind of a conspiracy.
Of course, there's clear evidence that that's not the case.
Baekje, at least its ruling class, originated from the Korean kingdom Goguryeo, way up from the north. They migrated to the Han river valley and founded Seoul, and they eventually conquered the southern neighbors and founded the Baekje kingdom. The original inhabitants before this conquest are now theorized to have been Japonic peoples.
And there was no genocide. China tried to assimilate the Koreans but they failed and was eventually kicked out.
And finally, the contemporary depiction of Korean envoys to China during the Three Kingdoms of Korea period. This includes Baekje, Goguryeo and Shilla:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ec/7th_century_painting_of_Koreans.png/220px-7th_century_painting_of_Koreans.png
Clearly not black. And it's not that the artist lacked skill in spotting the differences:
http://www5.kjclub.com/UploadFile/exc_board_63/2011/08/25/131418989712.jpg