What is the ancient name of Africa?
The ancient name for Africa was "Akebu-Lan" (mother of mankind) or "Garden of Eden." This name was used by the Moors, Nubians, Numidians, Khart-Hadddans (Carthaginians), and Ethiopians. Africa, the current name adopted by almost everyone today , was given to this continent by a European invader by the name of Louis Africanus. Like all methods of manipulation the Romans sought to completely disconnect the indigenous Africans from their culture, deities, and knowledge.
What are your thoughts on this subject?
32 Comments
Michael H. Calhoun
Thanks for this information--but must disagree about the comments about the Romans. Actually, one of the things that distinguished the Roman conquests is their persistent policy of NOT disturbing the local cultures, deities, etc. Hence Judea remained Jewish, often with local potentates, priests, etc. retaining local power subject only to Roman legislation and taxation. Egypt was a special case, which retained its own ruler until the Civil War between Octavius (Augustus) and Mark Anthony. Even Rome's ancient rival, Carthage, sown under with salt planted in the soil that nothing might there again ever grow, was permitted ultimately to rebuild, and remained Roman until the Muslim conquest. The Numidians of the northwest were allies of Rome, and provided much of the Roman calvary. The Berbers remained semi-autonomous, rarely bothered by the Romans. It was this remarkable tolerance of conquered nations' customs and local elites and religions that helped the Empire grow and remain so stable for so long. Good references for suggested reading on the subject would be all the standard works on Roman culture and government; I believe there are segments of Gibbon's masterpiece, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which speak to this, as well as some early portions perhaps of Finlay, Bury, etc. Best, mc
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Feb 19, 2015 2:25PM
John Irwin
Yahdiah Yahdiah And? What does white have to do with it?
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Mar 17, 2015 6:27PM
niytangel
Nice information. Yahdiah it is better to keep your opinion inside when you hAve nothing good to say. Care to explain how skin color has to do with literacy?
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Mar 27, 2015 1:08PM
Howard Groopman
Easy to rule out the last two, leaving only two to guess on.
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Apr 15, 2024 6:50PM
Lynne Zeman
I very much enjoyed this Q & A except the description of romans being " manipulative." Grossly biased and certainly not scholarly. Not a good first effort by our new clone. 1 Q. Score 455. Apparently not a player even though you've been a member since 2014? Posh!
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Apr 4, 2022 1:52AM
John McLardie
Missing reference.
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May 31, 2021 3:17AM
Jacqueline Tattam
Where is the reference that supports this? This should not have passed review.
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Mar 8, 2020 9:20PM
Julie Allen
That answer /explanation is a bit of a racist rant, nothing to say where it came from.
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Nov 18, 2019 11:47PM
Special Patrol Group
Akebu-Lan is the correct way of spelling the answer.
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Sep 17, 2018 12:47PM
Izet Balagić
She probably meant "There are beautiful Countries, people and cultures" My guess since she said Culture(S) Africa is the second largest Continent with 54 different Countries!
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Nov 2, 2015 3:05AM
Claire Jobe
Man, i respect you but i disagree with you. The fact of the matter is that they raped, plundered and phillpherd. Simple as that.
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Oct 15, 2015 1:45AM
mssheilaford
Love this knowledge. Keep sending. I'll keep trying.
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May 31, 2015 3:22AM
William Benner
However they are not a country.."they" are a continent.
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May 20, 2015 2:09PM
William Benner
What is amazing is that many people still call Africa a country, even in some of these post!
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May 20, 2015 2:08PM
Ronnie McCullough
Michael is partially right about the Romans, who is main goals were taxation of their conquered, plus wheat from North Africa, which was the bread basket of its day. In short, the Romans were parasites. Also, EgyptIan (Kemet) culture transformed the cultures of its invaders, as it did with the Greeks and Romans because Egyptian culture was far more ancient and superior to the culture of the invaders. Many of the things attributed to the Greeks, the first civilized European was actually learned from the Egyptians, e.g. medicine (Imhotep true father of Medicine), math, science (kemitstry), architecture, etc.
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May 8, 2015 11:19AM
kingspawn
Man am I good at guessing.
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Apr 21, 2015 11:49AM
Albert Aponte
History you have to no it.
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Apr 6, 2015 2:40PM
Lonnie Thompson
Good information. Never heard that before. But do you really believe it. ( garden of Eden).
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Apr 6, 2015 12:42PM
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