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only a supremist would ignor that Africa is the cradle
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I'm not talking about the origins of half-monkey half-men, i'm talking about the origin of civilization. Besides the extremely low amount of subject bones does not mean monkeymen originated in Africa, it just means someone was lucky to stumble across ONE little tiny bit of monkeyman skull in Africa. That excessively low amount of data not enough to draw a conclusion about anything involving the monkeymen, other then Democrats think like monkeymen. |
Even then, most agree that "civilization" actually began in the Middle East, most likely in Iraq, very near where Baghdad is today.
Is that in Europe?
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Like I said, the old Sumarian types of civilizations that originated there don't fit within my chokepoint theory. They were probably not very nice places to live, it was probably brutally militaristic just to maintain it's large and wide borders. And those empires rose and fell with regularity, they didn't last very long.
The Hamurabi Code (first written record) mirrors their brutal militaristic regime mindset. Being a country, kingdom, empire is good, but living under tyranny simply to maintain a tyranny isn't pleasant. And it takes a tyrant to maintain a large army to guard huge frontier borders. Those first middle eastern Empires were all ruled by tyrants.
Empires began in the Middle East, Civilization began in Greece.