The Dark Age was anything but dark in other parts of the world. Muslims in the Middle East studied and improved on the works of the ancient Greeks, while civilization flourished in sub-Saharan Africa,
China, India, and the Americas( before Columbus)


Middle Ages: Between Ancient and Modern
In 476CE, warriors attacked the city of Rome and ended more than 800 years of glory for the “Eternal City." Historians mark this event as the end of ancient history in Western Europe.
About one thousand years later, Europe experienced a “rebirth" we now call the Renaissance. The era between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance is a thousand-year period we call the Middle Ages. Many historians use a Latin term – “medieval” – to describe the era.

The people of Western Europe who lived during the Middle Ages didn’t view themselves as in the middle of anything. They were more likely to regard themselves as living at the end of time because the great civilizations of Greece and Rome had fallen.


The beginning of the Middle Ages in Western Europe is often called the “Dark Age.” Life during this time was often difficult and short. It was an era of war, as barbarian armies overran land once controlled by Roman armies.

Terrible periods of famine, or great hunger, were common during the Middle Ages. Farmers knew that just one or two years of bad harvests could mean starvation for an entire family.

People had little understanding of hygiene, so the people frequently faced widespread disease. Children often died in infancy; a woman might give birth to ten children only to see two or three live past infancy. In the middle of the fourteenth century, a terrible disease called the Black Death killed nearly one-third of the people of Europe.

Life in Western Europe during the Middle Ages was very hard, and few people thought conditions could ever get better. Feudalism replaced the protection of the Roman army. Poor farmers often lived on land owned by noble families who were loyal to the ruler. Society was divided into strict social classes, and it was nearly impossible for a landless person to escape poverty.

The only hope for most people in Western Europe during the Middle Ages was their faithful belief in Christianity, and the hope that life in heaven would be better than life on earth. During the Middle Ages, builders demonstrated their faith through the construction of massive cathedrals. Soaring high above the simple dwellings of ordinary people, many cathedrals took more than a lifetime to complet


Europe began to experience momentous change by about 1450, a period we now call the Renaissance. Renaissance is a term that means “rebirth."
https://www.mrdowling.com/703middleages.html

Chongaiman:
I get am before no be property.

Life in Western Europe during the Middle Ages was very hard, and few people thought conditions could ever get better. Feudalism replaced the protection of the Roman army. Poor farmers often lived on land owned by noble families who were loyal to the ruler. Society was divided into strict social classes, and it was nearly impossible for a landless person to escape poverty.

The only hope for most people in Western Europe during the Middle Ages was their faithful belief in Christianity, and the hope that life in heaven would be better than life on earth.

Amujale:
Out of these influential characters, who means more to you in the world of today, and why?

Amujale:
One cannot trust Arabian fundamentalist and Eurocentric writers with the their own history, nevermind trusting anything they write regarding the most important aspects of world history.

African= history is the most important aspects of world history.

gatiano:
African History is so deep that only Africans can tell their story, let alone Black Peoples' History (only a handful possess the knowledge of the history of Black People.

Horus:
The Kingdom of Aksum

During the same period that the Roman Empire rose and fell, the influential Kingdom of Aksum held sway over parts of what are now Eritrea and northern Ethiopia. Surprisingly little is known about Aksum’s origins, but by the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. it was a trading juggernaut whose gold and ivory made it a vital link between ancient Europe and the Far East. The kingdom had a written script known as Ge’ez, ne of the first to emerge in Africa, and it developed a distinctive architectural style that involved the building of massive stone obelisks, some of which stood over 100 feet tall. In the fourth century, Aksum became one of the first empires in the world to adopt Christianity, which led to a political and military alliance with the Byzantines. The empire later went into decline sometime around the 7th or 8th century, but its religious legacy still exists today in the form of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

Amujale:


Great post! Intresting indeed.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church predates the Roman version of Christianity.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catgolic Church are not in the same historical league.

The Roman Catholic Church will have to phone a friend from the Hellenistic religions to find a church that is in the same age bracket.

The Ethiopian Orthodox praised Jah before they adopted the Jesus story.

The Roman Catholic Church and all the other significant historical Orthodox Churches possess the same parents.

Its either they are the offsprings of the Church of Serapis Christus or the Ethiopian Orthodox Church that both sprung out of the followers of the combination of Horus/Isis/Osiris/Serapis that was the ways of the Greek Hellenistic culture in Ptolemaic Egypt.

musicwriter:


@the quote in bold.

Of course, everything originated from the Africans in Ethiopia. Including the Greek gods (Zeus) were imitations of African gods that they adopted during their sojourn in Africa. They merely fashioned it in their own way.

The rule of thumb is that no spiritual system originated in Europe. This's why they misunderstood spirituality as religion and has used it to achieve pecuniary gains, which wasn't the original purpose.

Anybody interested should see the two below documentaries on how all religions originated from Africa. Brother James Small specifically talked about the Ethiopian part.

The origins of religion - Dr. Robert Bauval

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4LO_9gfAxE

The origins of religion - Prof. James Smalls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYOMB2orvMo

musicwriter:

The rule of thumb is that no spiritual system originated in Europe. This's why they misunderstood spirituality as religion and has used it to achieve pecuniary gains, which wasn't the original purpose.

Amujale:


Totally agree with, their was zero intention of spirituality in the manufactured religions and there is zero spirituality in the Abrahamic religion.

The first principle in the golden rule towards ethical and moral aspects of spirituality.

Do not lie.

Yet the first sentence in all the Abrahamic religious text is a blattant lie.

I heard of historians finding the amount of errors and contradictions in the bible runs into the thousands.

If one was to indicate all the lies of the Christiam Bible, there wont be anything remaining except for banter and a repacked version of West Asian poetry .

What has West Asian poetry got to does with the African.

musicwriter:


@at the quote in bold.

I actually created a thread earlier today about bible contradictions. See https://www.nairaland.com/5676118/top-10-bible-contradictions#86485627

You need to see how stupid and irrational Christianity has made people.

Amujale:
To follow OP's lead and put things back into the proper perspective, when the current stock of Asians and Europeans were learning how to read and write, [b]Africanssic had already been building Collegessic Universitiessic and libraries. [/b]Yet, the amount of carnage, destruction and devastation both Christianity and Islam has caused on the continent amounts to the greatest attrocities in human history.

And yet, we are being taught to take on their ideologies and all their fake gods.

No, we must reject all the Abrahamic religions and all other foreign extreemist ideologies and instead concentrate our focus on reality, real history.

CTPlayer:


Where were these colleges, universities and libraries?

CTPlayer:


Where were these colleges, universities and libraries?

musicwriter:


Oldest university in the world by Guinness world records. Guess where its located? In Africa!!.
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-university?fb_comment_id=884703521549256_923508941002047

Yet, there were far more older universities in Africa than the above but lost in history.

CTPlayer:


OK but most of the older cultural stuff of N. Africa is well documented.

musicwriter:


Once you discover that Europeans have burned down libraries in Africa so many times, you'll realize that what we have today is just a scratch on the surface of African history. The ancient African histories and books have been burnt down by the Roman empire thousands of years ago, so nobody knows what the original ancient African authors actually said.

In 332 BC thereabout, Alexander the so called great, invaded ancient Egypt and burnt down an ancient African library. Its estimated that over 1 million books were destroyed.

In 145 BC, Rome invaded ancient Egypt again under the leadership of Ptolemy III. Again, they burnt down the remaining library that was trying to salvage the previous destruction. Its estimated that over 700,000 books were lost in the fire.

Later, when the Arabs and French invaded the Mali empire they also burnt down their schools and books and chased away the scholars. Some were kidnapped.

There're other incidents of destruction of ancient black scholarly achievements but there's no time for all that now.

What this means is that for thousands of years, black people have never been allowed to keep our scholarly achievement in one piece. Whatever we achieved in scholarship, the Europeans or Arabs have destroyed ages ago. This’s why there’s no African bible talking about Horus Krst or other black achievements in Chemistry, biology, physics before Europeans. But we did all that first before anybody else.

What we have today are European re-constructions- sometimes racist constructs. However, there were honest Europeans, like Herodotus, Gerald Massey, Count Voney and many others who reported unbiased African history. It is those unbiased Europeans that gave pan-African scholars a head-start, and since then African scholars have risen to the occasion and have been reconstructing everything with love. See African and African-American scholars of histoy you should know http://www.africason.com/2018/08/africans-and-african-american-scholars.html I'll advise you to learn from such scholars, so you stop asking questions like ''Where were these colleges, universities and libraries?''

What am I trying to tell you? Those wonderful histories such as the oldest university in Morocco are just a scratch on the surface of thousands of years of lost histories. Ancient African history is far more beautiful than that. Example; Pythagoras (an ancient Greek mathematician) schooled in Africa but we don't know the school because after the burning of our libraries such record was lost. The only reason we even know this's because the Greeks themselves said so.

African history only began being re-documented by Europeans after so many years of destruction of black civilization. We will never be able to know just how many events lost in the destruction of black civilization.

CTPlayer:


Why are you conflating Morocco or Egypt as black? Africa is a large continent with multiple races and ethnic groups. Most people know about Alexandria/Egypt or Morocco and the various Euro connections to them be that the Roman Empire fighting with Carthage or whatever. All of this is well known. I am looking for something unknown.

Amujale:


Teach!

Totally agree with the spirit of your post.

Perhaps its better to use Nubian oppose to using the term Blacksic when signifying Ethnicity and or Nationality. The olden day Arabian fundamentalist and Eurocentric historians used terms such as Ethiopian and or Nubian to signify the indegenous people 'South of The Sahara'.

The the extent that we have olden days Eurocentric and Arabian fundamentalist historians validating the fact that the communituies 'South of The Sahara' and the Ancient Egyptians are the same people.

Nubians played a major facture in the creation of the Arabian penisular. Is it any wonder that the Prophetsic Muhammad has no physical representation. No image.

Could it be that the bigotry of the Arabian fundamentalist couldnt allow them to reveal to the world that the marvelous military commander that they tricked people into worshiping as a prophet ibsteas of as a revolutionary and a founder, infact a Nubian General that sought to unite his people under one banner.

The history of the Blacksic People, the Nubian to be precise, and that of the Africansic are one and the same.

Humanity begins in Africa, we all ascend from the regions "South of The Sahara".

musicwriter:


You can't know it all by a Nairaland post. Again, follow these black scholars to find out some hidden histories that have been kept away from you. See African and African-American scholars of history you should know http://www.africason.com/2018/08/africans-and-african-american-scholars.html

If you want to read it yourself, email kemeticphilosopy@gmail and I'll send you books on ancient African history.

gatiano:
Yes, Nubian is right, and Ethiopian, as it came from the word Ether which is very black, and Ethics etc. "Africa/African" is a very new concept, even as at about the last 100 years and more, Most Africans within Africa didn't even know of such word. Black is to bring about oneness, There are Black People all over the earth, and the truth is They didn't come from Africa continent, a lot of us in Africa today are about 2000 to 30,000 years migrant. When it come to Us, We are from everywhere and We all have moved(Migration) alot.

The description of Our very remote Ancestors, If We were to see Them, Black is about the only and the first word to come to mind.

Once We begin to accept that at a point in time, there were only Us (Black/Nubian/Moors/Africans . . ) on earth, the quicker we will get to the truth.

Thank You Brother for the compliment. Mostly it is gratitude to The Ancestors, and The Elders, and The Custodians of Our History. We would have been wiped out off of existence without Them.

Amujale:
Out of these influential characters, who means more to you in the world of today, and why?

https://www.nairaland.com/5674944/marcus-garvey-malcom-x-jesus#86465549