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European quotes about Africans - Ancient Greece to Picasso

Channel: Education
Uploaded: May 1, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Author: markellion

Length: 00:09:52
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Webmaster Video Comments: The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbachhttp://... important article see link just bellow, Frank M. Snowden: "Blacks in the Ancient Greek and Roman World" talks about... blacks in the classical world. The Greeks did have contact with black people, The essays in the link just bellow were published by Howard University library:http://... on this playlist:http://... and Medieval views on how intelligence and morality correlate with race:http://... Ethiopians," wrote Herodotos, "are said to be the tallest and best-looking people in the world."http://... the Tigre in Ethiopia in 1893, Bent wrote in admiration, "all the surrounding hills have been terraced for cultivation...Nowhere in Greece or Asia Minor have I seen such an enormous extent of terraced mountains as in this Abyssinian valley. Hundreds of thousands of acres must have been under the most careful cultivation, right up almost to the top of the mountains."http://... to Abyssinian (Ethiopia), you will find a king under whom none are persecuted. It is a land of righteousness where God will give you relief from what you are suffering."-Prophet Mohamed"the Nigerian town of Kano, "a whole family may live in that country with ease, including every expense, even that of clothing." All too familiar with the terrible conditions of the Victorian sweatshops in Europe, Barth wrote: "If we consider that this industry (textile manufacturing) is not carried on here as in Europe, in immense establishment degrading man to the meanest condition of life, but that it gives employment and support to families without compelling them to sacrifice their domestic habits, we must presume that Kano ought to be one of the happiest countries in the world; and so it is so long as its governor, too often lazy and indolent, is able to defend its inhabitants from the cupidity of their neighbors, which of course is certainly stimulated by the very wealth of this country."-Heinrich Barth, 19th centuryhttp://... "Ethiopians" (literally meaning Negroes) According to Diodorus Siculus:"it is generally held that the sacrifices practiced among the Ethiopians are those which are the most pleasing to heaven. As witness to this they call upon the poet who is perhaps the oldest and certainly the most venerated among the Greeks; for in the Iliad he represents both Zeus and the rest of the gods with him as absent on a visit to Ethiopia to share in the sacrifices and the banquet which were given annually by the Ethiopians for all the gods together:For Zeus had yesterday to Ocean's boundsSet forth to feast with Ethiopia's faultless men,And he was followed there by all the godsSource where I found the bellow quote:http://... been typing things in search engines trying to find this full quote and finally found it in google books"The Ethiopians," (Literally meaning the sub-Saharan Africans) says Lucian, page 985, "were the first who invented the science of the stars, and gave names to the planets, not at random and without meaning, but descriptive of the qualities which they conceived them to possess; and it was from them that this art passed, still in an imperfect state, to the Egyptians."-Lucian is a 2nd century Greek historian, probably not credible lol