"Europe" = West Asia?

[Ctwentysevenj]

That western end of Asia, that is Europe was the brains of human civilization! The world today with space craft, aircraft, motor car, scientific discoveries, computer the list goes on and on. Would fill up pages. I say was, it still is, but you have north east Asians that have caught up. Just a note, if it was up to sub Saharan Africans, will be still living in caves, and that is no joke!

[arian]

if it was up to sub Saharan Africans, will be still living in caves, and that is no joke!

It's almost a joke because Sub-Saharan Africans never lived in caves. That's Asiatic history...


Timbuktu Manuscript (Cartographical Drawings)


Djenne Mosque (still standing after centuries)


Example of Mande Artwork

Idrisi’s description of East Africa as a collection of harbors fully engaged in the production of steel for export to India, stands against the traditional view of a coast that exports ivory and slaves. (Ibn Said mentions a century later also iron mines on the coast). Archaeology shows iron production declining and then disappearing on the East African coast (except for Madagascar) in the middle ages.

(taj-akoben - knowledge of self)

It is a common line among hardcore White racists such as White nationalists that Black Africans were Stone Age people who had no metal working, no agriculture and no civilization of any sort by the time the Europeans contacted them.

The movement of agriculture in its full array from North Africans to Sahelian Blacks is shown to be a lie and it may perhaps have even gone the other way.

It’s true that Africa south of the Equator lagged behind, and racists love to go about this, but the truth is that there were no animals to domesticate down there nor were there any plants to domesticate either.

The Sahelian Blacks probably had equivalent intelligence to the Blacks south of the Equator. They were just better positioned to receive animals for husbandry from Southwest Asia, and they had plants that could be domesticated.

(Robert Lindsay - Beyond Highbrow)

You can get some general knowledge HERE

[Ctwentysevenj]

What I mean for Europeans, we be still living in the caves.

[arian]

What I mean for Europeans, we be still living in the caves.

Did living in caves ever really happen? How much of Europe even has caves? Whether it's true or not, what's wrong with it? Caves are warmer when it's cool, and cooler when it's hot. If you were a traveler 10,000 years ago and it was time to stop for the night, wouldn't you rather find a cave to just start a fire in than have to set up your whole tent, etc.?

Last but not least, there's hardly any difference between, say, an English castle, with its thick stone walls and dank air, and a cave, is there? It's just a man-made version, right?

So caves weren't backwards, but I think it could be argued that plaster-walled houses that don't protect from heat or cold are.

Long story short, Africans have been visiting and ruling parts of Europe for some time, and they didn't keep people backwards:


http://selfuni.wordpress.com/2014/03...ican-mariners/
http://selfuni.wordpress.com/2014/03...on-in-england/
http://selfuni.wordpress.com/2013/12...ulated-europe/

[Cyrus III]

I suppose if you look at it, Europe is an extension of the massive Asian land mass. But overall, "Europeans"are quite distinctive From other Asians in looks and culture. Big difference between an Indian rural peasant and a Swedish person.

Some indians look nordic like these folk here:



I don't support the idea that all albinos are white, but if you take the skin color away from some indians, they look white.

[Fakirbakir]

Indeed, geographically Europe is part of Asia. But, it wasn't always like this. Geologically speaking, "Europe" (e.g. Baltica) in the past was separated from "Asia" (Angara-Kazakstania) by the Uralic Ocean.

We have to distinguish between physical geography and political geography. Politically Europe isn't part of Asia.

[Neon Knight]

Geographically, Europe is semi-separate from Asia. I think there is also a case for Scandinavia + Finland being a supra-continent.

[KawaiiKawaii]

Geographically, Europe is semi-separate from Asia. I think there is also a case for Scandinavia + Finland being a supra-continent.

How so?

[Neon Knight]

How so?

Simply because of the Ural mountains and the Black Sea.

http://geology.com/world/europe.jpg