Saturday, February 9, 2019
Response to Davidsons Africa in History :: World History
Response to Davidsons Africa in HistoryAfrica, steeped in history, is often known as the cradle of civilization. Civilization was most greatly nurtured during the Pleistocene era. The history pre-, proto-, and fully human unfolds mostly during the Pleistocene era. oppose tools caused an increase in population throughout Africa because of knowledge of fire, knowing how to hold out burdens and live in caves (9). Around 10,000 B.C., Neanderthals, last of the hominids, disappeared and home sapiens took over (9,10). Between 5500 and 2500 B.C. there was a Makalian wet phase where there was a great miscell all of people, plenty of fish, wildlife and trees. The author seems to believe in the authenticity of early African history. He dismisses the Hamitic hypothesis as great nonsense (ll,l2). The Hamitic hypothesis utter that the Hamites (Caucasians) were responsible for any process in history identifiable in Africa. The hypothesis stated that Negroes were too primitive to embark on any such processes of history (l2). P The first great civilization of Africa took place in Egypt. Egyptians started 3round the delta and were part of the Saharan Sudanese culture (l5). They became strong because they knew when the Nile River floods were coming and could take aim their land with rich soil (13). The Egyptians built many notable scar monuments and created a pharaonic monarchy. For many centuries they were supreme army fighters and ruled Union Africa through the Old, Middle and Late Kingdoms. During the Late Kingdom Egypt came under eruption by the Kushites (33). Egyptians werent able to defend themselves well in part because of leave out of iron tools. Egyptians did not see iron as operative military weapons. Iron was seen as curiosity pieces for the pharaohs (37). Consequently, Kushites briefly became the dominant power in Africa. Quite often scholars argued that the Egyptians of the Pharaonic Age were not black. This is an argument that the author argues as littl e tenable as saying Serbers and Ethiopians werent Negro (25,26). My smell is that scholars would not care if the Egyptians were black if they werent such an important civilization. Africa produced many significant civilizations such as the Egyptian, Songhay, Mali and Ethiopian scarcely would see the fruits of labor manipulated and tormented during the Atlantic slave trade. Slavery marks one of the worst but important tragedies that beset my ancestors. The Atlantic Trade consisted mainly of slaves, firearms, gold, spices and indigo.
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