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It was from Babylon that the Greeks brought to their city-states and then to Rome and ultimately us, the foundations of mathematics, astronomy, medicine, grammar, lexicography, archeology, history, and philosophy. The Greek names for the metals and constellations, for weights and measures, for musical instruments, and many drugs, are translations -- and often, just transliterations -- of Babylonian terms
Originally posted by AnAbsoluteCreation
I know this all sounds hard to grasp, but if you look back at the history of white man, he has never showed any love for other races, but for what reason? (*Slavery, *Indians, *Apartreid, *Blacks, *Muslims, etc...).
Discovery Channel
In his new book, "Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery In The Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, And Italy, 1500-1800," Davis concluded that between 1 million and 1.25 million ended up in bondage.
"About 95 percent of slaves were males, and were often used as oarsmen in the pirates' galleys. Ruling pashas put the slaves in overcrowded "baths" called bagnes, and used them for hard labor in quarries, construction work and cutting trees," Davis said.
In the absence of written records such as custom forms, the historian developed a new methodology to calculate the number of white Christians who were enslaved along Africa's Barbary Coast.
Using the best records available indicating how many slaves were at a particular location at a single time, Davis estimated how many new slaves it would take to replace slaves as they died, escaped or were ransomed.
It emerged that about one-fourth of slaves had to be replaced each year to keep the slave population stable. That meant about 8,500 new slaves had to be captured each year. Overall, this suggests that between 1530 and 1780 the number of slaves ranged between 1 million and 1.25 million.
"One of the things that both the public and many scholars have tended to take as given is that slavery was always racial in nature. But that is not true. We cannot think of slavery as something that only white people did to black people," David said.
During the time period Davis studied, it was religion and ethnicity, as much as race, that determined who became slaves.
According to the historian, slavery in North Africa has been largely ignored or minimized because scholars preferred to treat Europeans as "evil colonialists" rather than as victims. Indeed, countries that were victims of slavery, such as France and Spain, would later colonize the areas in North Africa where their citizens were once held in bondage.
Originally posted by AceOfBase
In fact, the number of Europeans taken to Africa as slaves is higher than the number of Africans taken to the US as slaves.
Originally posted by Ras Dedan
What do you base this opinion on.It's estimated that between 10 & 15 million Africans were brought to the west as slaves and given that only about half of them survived the abomination of the Middle Passage around 30 MILLION of my people,my ancestors included were taken into bondage during the African Holocaust.
Originally posted by Ras Dedan
What do you base this opinion on.It's estimated that between 10 & 15 million Africans were brought to the west as slaves and given that only about half of them survived the abomination of the Middle Passage around 30 MILLION of my people,my ancestors included were taken into bondage during the African Holocaust.
www.innercity.org...
Although the number of African American slaves grew slowly at first, by the 1680s they had become essential to the economy of Virginia. During the 17th and 18th centuries, African American slaves lived in all of England’s North American colonies. Before Great Britain prohibited its subjects from participating in the slave trade, between 600,000 and 650,000 Africans had been forcibly transported to North America. ("Immigration," Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia. Microsoft Corporation.)
Originally posted by AnAbsoluteCreation
A secret brotherhood of racists? The story of Babylon is summarized by the following: Genesis chapter 11. One Race, One Langauge, one belief, dominated the world and the people of ancient babylon.[/QUOTE]
You realize that this is just a story and that it has no resemblance to the actual history right???
The white man is all about racism isn't he?
More so than others? No.
Could the pyrimid on the dollar represent Babylon's tower?
Are you actually suggesting that that guys who designed it are operatives of the resurrected babylonian empire and that they told everyone this by having a pyramid? Why is the pyramid the tower? Why isn't it, er, a pyramid??
Could the all seeing eye symbolize One race, one religion, one language?
How is it supposed to do that? Makes more sense as a symbol of the all seeing god than that. Makes more sense as a symbol of the insidious satan than that too.
The disapearance of Babylon is still to this day the most mysterious stories in the bible.
What? No its not. Its not a mystery, its history.
Rebuild Babylon. (NWO) create one race by anniahlating every other, and just as god claimed, if they were of one, they could accomplish anything.
The babylonian peoples never advocated anything of the sort. The Tower of Babel was not built by the babylonians. It was built by a non-existent people made up for the bible.
I know this all sounds hard to grasp, but if you look back at the history of white man, he has never showed any love for other races
WTH are you talking about??? There is no 'white man', and european civilizations have allways been intertwined with the non-europeans civs. THe greeks rcognized egypt as more illustrious than their own, the romans interacted amicably with the north africans and arabs, and there have been lots of other times where the 'white man' wasn't 'destroying all the other races'. This idea of yours doesn't even make sense. The 'white man' is more racist and evil than the others?? Pure Bunk. The moors and north africans invaded spain and the mediteranean,the arabs invaded europe, heck the Ottoman Turks nearly wiped out all the greeks in greece. When alexander invaded persia he adopted persian ways and his troops made homes in iraq iran, central asia and india, they didn't behave 'like racists'.