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If you can classify a people who've lived in Africa for a thousand years as "ex-Phoenician", who came from Syria[1] and Lebanon, you can classify them as "ex-Egyptians" who earlier originated from Egypt from 3000BC[2], then you might as well call them "ex-East Africans", from another few thousand years before, who were really, in the end "ex-Central Africans" from another few thousand years before that. Central Africa[3] => East Africa => Egypt => Syria & Lebanon, Levant => North Africa. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Semitic_language [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Semitic_language#/media/... Britain and Germany achieved outsized power as a poor people in Europe, but you forget Spanish already built a empire spanning between two continents in the 1500's. Before Spain (and the Ottomans), Mongolia was the dominant power, with China and Rome before that. I'm sure you know the Romans came from a small village. China too was borne of two small tribes[4]. Before Rome, it was Greece, and before Greece, it was Cathage, before Carthage, it was Egypt. It goes on and on, and on and on, and everyone has had or will have their turn in being a dominant power of the world[5]. [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Emperor#Early_years [5] Fate of Empire - Sir John Grubb http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/2014/092814_files/... |
