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Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by gidiMonsta(m): 12:54pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
I stumbled upon this and the most fascinating thing about it is; we had storey buildings in Nigeria before the British landed on our shores.
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Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by TonySpike: 3:27pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
Good post, I was just thinking about this EREDO name, it seems it has a relationship with the Babylonian ERIDU. I'll soon start a thread I researched on at the History section. I'd like you to read it.... 1 Like |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by Abagworo(m): 4:12pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
There's Oredo in Benin. |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by gidiMonsta(m): 4:53pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
Eredo means ditch in Yoruba and this particular ancient city is located in the rain forests of Ijebu. Tony Spike: Good post, I was just thinking about this EREDO name, it seems it has a relationship with the Babylonian ERIDU. I'll soon start a thread I researched on at the History section. I'd like you to read it.... I'm looking forward to reading your thread, I love history. 1 Like |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by redsun(m): 5:00pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
Why is nobody showing pictures?We talk about our stories as if they are myths,because we are showing proofs.It takes oyinbos to research,analyze,theorize and excavate our ruins and past civilizations,when we have archeologists,historians and institutions of higher leaning,or dont we? |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by redsun(m): 5:04pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
It because we dont know our history,that is why we dont have intergrity and that is we breed headless chickens like tinubu as leaders.And that is why we are in ruins. We are like people that just dropped from the sky,with no past,no present and no future. |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by Rossikk(m): 5:27pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
redsun: Why is nobody showing pictures?We talk about our stories as if they are myths,because we are showing proofs.It takes oyinbos to research,analyze,theorize and excavate our ruins and past civilizations,when we have archeologists,historians and institutions of higher leaning,or dont we? My brother it's so frustrating. Ok we knew about the Eredo earthworks, the world's largest man made monument. But I had no idea it enclosed A CITY. And now these white guys show up to tell us this. What were our own researchers and archaeologists doing? I guess we can say they're not well-funded. Even that says something. |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by Afam4eva(m): 5:30pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
When will all these lies end for Christ sake...Africa is a third world continent. let's work on making things better than than console ourselves with the fact that we were advanced at one point in our existence. |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by Rossikk(m): 5:31pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
^^What ''lies'' are you talking about? 2 Likes |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by Nobody: 5:33pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
afam4eva: When will all these lies end for Christ sake...Africa is a third world continent. let's work on making things better than than console ourselves with the fact that we were advanced at one point in our existence. What lies exactly? The ramparts are there to be seen. And how does this stop you from moving forward? The great wall of China does not stop it from moving forward, does it? 3 Likes |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by Afam4eva(m): 5:35pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
Aigbofa:Can we see some pictures? |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by Rossikk(m): 5:35pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
The Book Lugard's Wife Wrote: 'Lady Flora Lugard's book [A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria, 1906] is an extraordinary look at the history of Africa, which she gathered from countless sources, and one would imagine a great deal of it came from the British Library and from the archives of The Times of London, for whom she had for many years been the Foreign Political Correspondent. She had always been known to be an intensive researcher into her subject matter, and one wonders at the months and probably years she put into this undertaking, which became the reference work for so many future books on Africa. This book was first published 100 years ago showing with detail and descriptive power, the greatness that Africa once was. Lady Lugard argues that: "When the history of Negroland comes to be written in detail, it may be found that the kingdoms lying towards the eastern end of Sudan (classical home of Ancient Ethiopians) were the home of races who inspired, rather than of races who received, the tradition of civilization associated for us with the name of ancient Egypt. For they cover on either side of the Upper Nile between the latitudes of ten degrees and seventeen degrees, territories in which are found monuments more ancient than the oldest Egyptian monuments. If this should prove to be the case and civilized world be forced to recognize in a black people the fount of its original enlightenment, it may happen that we shall have to revise entirely our view of the black races, and regard those who now exist as the decadent representatives of an almost forgotten era, rather than as the embryonic possibility of an era yet to come." "The fame of the ancient Ethiopians (ancient Kushites) was widespread in ancient history. Herodotus described them as the tallest, most beautiful and long-lived of the human races, and before Herodotus, Homer, in even more flattering language, described them as the most just of men, the favorites of the gods. The annals of all the great early nations of Asia Minor are full of them. The Mosaic records allude to them frequently; but while they are described as the most powerful, the most just, and the most beautiful of the human race, they are constantly spoken of as Black, and there seems to be no other conclusion to be drawn than at that remote period of history, the leading race of the Western World was a Black race."' Lady Lugard/Flora Shaw Lugard, Asa G. Hilliard, III, A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria, (1906) |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by Rossikk(m): 5:37pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
afam4eva:GO ON GOOGLE EARTH. ALSO CHECK GOOGLE EARTH FOR THE BENIN RAMPARTS. You can see these constructions on Google Earth, ie FROM OUTER SPACE. They are THAT huge. The Benin earthworks were constructed on the orders of Oba Ewuare (Ewuare the Great) in the 13th century. The rampart took over 300 years to complete and covers a total of 16,000 sq km, making it the world's largest and most extensive man-built edifice till date. Do we have the social organisation, political stability, or even the confidence to embark on such an epic project today? |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by gidiMonsta(m): 6:18pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
afam4eva: When will all these lies end for Christ sake...Africa is a third world continent. let's work on making things better than than console ourselves with the fact that we were advanced at one point in our existence. How and when did our history become lies? Google is your friend if you want pictures or better still visit the place yourself. I plan to one day when I'm less busy with work. 1 Like |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by gidiMonsta(m): 6:23pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
Rossikk: Didn't even know about the Bini ramparts until today. I think we should open a thread about historical sights in Nigeria where people can contribute to, we need to learn about our past, inspire our youths, show them that Africans are not the savages we read about in books. Once we change our mindset then we can move forward. 1 Like |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by CyberG: 6:50pm On Sep 05, 2012 |
gidiMonsta: LOL...you better stop wasting your time talking to people like Afam whose stock in trade for falsity and inferiority complex is legendary on this board. Or, don't you know that exposing things like these more completely and shamefully destroy their phantom fallacy and lies about his tribe? This is one fellow who cannot see beyond his narrow, and myopic tribal enclave. 3 Likes |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by odumchi: 12:26am On Sep 06, 2012 |
Isn't this supposed to be in the culture section? |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by Nobody: 12:31am On Sep 06, 2012 |
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Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by supereagle(m): 1:16am On Sep 06, 2012 |
gidiMonsta: Eredo means ditch in Yoruba and this particular ancient city is located in the rain forests of Ijebu. There is Eredo in Yewa South in Ogun State along Ilaro - Owode Road. |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by Ejine(m): 1:29am On Sep 06, 2012 |
Can't somebody take a little trip down there and feed our eyes with a few pictures atleast? |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by Crayola1: 1:42am On Sep 06, 2012 |
CyberG: The sound of the Grand Nigerian a.s.s in its native habitat. Can you please tell us the lies about his ethnic group, not tribe or you still believe what Lugard told yoir father? |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by CyberG: 2:15am On Sep 06, 2012 |
Crayola1: I know you have no respect for your fathe who gave birth to a useless loser like you! Get the fuc.k out of my face and go mingle with your gutter folks! |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by rodeo0070(m): 7:22am On Sep 06, 2012 |
CyberG: Its one thing to insult one another but its absurd if you guys decide to take it on your elderly ones hmmm! Back to the post. Every race is known to be civilized or better still, advanced @ one point or the other. We have the Aztecs, Mayan, Egyptians, the native Americans etc The current advanced sections of the world were once nothing thousands of years ago. It has to do with dynamism especially in the areas of relevance and time. No kingdom lasts forever... 1 Like |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by rodeo0070(m): 7:23am On Sep 06, 2012 |
CyberG: |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by CyberG: 7:32am On Sep 06, 2012 |
rodeo0070: And you did not see the doofus abuse his father first but you saw mine? Don't be a hypocritical judge. |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by rodeo0070(m): 8:18am On Sep 06, 2012 |
CyberG:Cyberg I'm not judging u or anyone. Even so, u don't H̲̣̣̣̥ɑ̤̥̈̊vє̲̣̥ to reply him in a bit, if he did insulted ur Dad. |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by spendogram: 9:06am On Sep 06, 2012 |
Rossikk:@Rossikke, I really admire your passion. I use to think it was just paranoia but I now see it is just pure passion. Keep up the good work bro. |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by donnie(m): 8:22pm On Mar 22 |
TonySpike: This will interest you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evg01B-5Msg?si=OYZ-ufkgPen5G4_A |
Re: Eredo: The Largest City In The Ancient World by Cosbyrich: 8:52pm On Mar 22 |
History is sacrosanct. It also defines a people. |
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