Negro Civilisations on the

Asian Continent

BS Class 6

Marcia Clarke

Saturday, 29 March 2014

Where is he from?

What about these?

The Early East

Introduction to the Peopling of Ancient

Asia

Evidence from Archaeology and Anthropology

200,000 BP Homo Sapiens Sapiens in Africa –

Mitochondrial DNA

95,000 BP Homo Sapiens Sapiens in Asia – Jabal

Qazfeh

10,000 BP Natufian Culture in Palestine – Asia’s

first Culture

QUOTE: Sir Arthur Keith 1932 – Master of the

British Anthropologists

What did he say?

What did he say?

Evidence from Written Documents

Summary of the Greek and Roman writer’s

findings

QUOTE: Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, 1928

QUOTE: Lady Lugard, 1905

What did they say?

Use of combined data

QUOTE: Mr Joseph Widney, 1907

What did he say?

ANY QUESTIONS?

Introduction to the Peopling of Ancient Asia

Phoenicia/Canaan

The Phoenicians/Canaanites were in ancient

Israel/Palestine

They had a number of city states – Tyre,

Joppa, Byblos and Sidon

They were a maritime power

The Map

Who were these people?

Phoenicia is Greek for Red

Canaan is a “son of Ham” according to the

Hebrews

Role of admixture with Hebrews

QUOTE: Herodotus, 450 BC

QUOTE: Lady Lugard, 1905 AD

What did Herodotus say?

What did Lady Lugard say?

The Nimrud Ivories, 9th Century BC

There is more

Conclusion on the Phoenicians

Conclusion on the Ethnicity Question

Conclusion on the Cultural Question

Some facts about the Phoenicians

Founders of Mediterranean Colonies

Voyages to Ancient Britain

Trade with Dynasty IV Egypt

Founders of Carthage in 814 BC

Important link in the development of the

Modern alphabet

QUOTE: Anthony Browder, 1992

What did Browder say?

ANY QUESTIONS?

Phoenicia/Canaan

Arabia Felix

This is modern day Yemen in South Arabia

Also known as Saba (or Sheba) = star worship

Arabia was traditionally divided by European

geographers into Felix (Happy), Petrae

(Stony), Deserta (Desert)

The Joctanides invaded the region in 1800 BC

The Map

Who were the Arabs?

QUOTE: John Baldwin, 1869

What did he say?

The Peopling of Arabia

Split into North and South

Role of African Slave Trade versus

indigenous Blacks

Role of European Slave Trade and White

Arabs

Is there any hard evidence?

Birth of the Sabaean Civilisation

Archaeologists give dates of between 1500

BC and 700 BC

Queen of Sheba – Bilqis or Makeda

Economy based on the export of frankincense

and myrrh

Role of the great Sage – Lockman or Aesop

The capital city of Marib

Cultural links with Ethiopia continued until

7th Century AD

ANY QUESTIONS?

Arabia Felix

BREAK!

The Map

Elam

This is modern day Iran

Like Sumer, they built ziggurats and wrote in cuneiform

The capital city was Susa

The culture flourished from 3150 BC to 539 BC

In 539 BC, they were occupied by the White Persians

Who were the Elamites?

QUOTE: Marcel Dieulafoy, 1892

What did he say?

From Assyrian Art …

The Choga Zambil Ziggurat

More

ANY QUESTIONS?

Elam

Indus Valley

A very ancient civilisation flourished in the Indus

Valley region of Pakistan and Western India

This civilisation was invaded and conquered

between 2000 and 1500 BC

The conquerors called themselves Aryans

(‘Nobles’)

Their conquest is called the First Reich

QUOTE: S. G. Blaxland-Stubbs, 1937

What did he say?

The Map

What did they find?

QUOTE: John G. Jackson, 1970

What did he say?

Who were these black-skinned people?

QUOTE: Godfrey Higgins Esq., 1836

QUOTE: V. T. Rajshekar, 1994

What did Higgins say?

What did Rajshekar say?

And there is more …

Is there any other evidence?

And there is more …

Even more …

Charles Finch, 1991

ANY QUESTIONS?

Indus Valley

What have we learned about …

Phoenicia?

Arabia Felix?

Elam?

Indus Valley?

Negro Civilisations on the

Asian Continent

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