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Politics / Re: Africans Need To Develop A Groundbreaking Philosophy by Invelene01: 11:48am On Aug 05, 2023
Wars are part of human society, we can't do away with that, but as for human civilization and advancement, apart from religion no other culture in history influenced the course of history as much as the Hellenistic culture did. Europeans (Anglo-Saxons, francs, Slavs and Scandinavians) wouldn't have gotten this far if they hadn't come in contact with the Hellenistic influence under the Romans, which is improbable due to the proximity of greek and Roman civilizations to the rest of nomadic Europe. All am trying to simulate, is had Hellenistic influence breached into Africa during the wars and activities of the diadochi's (Alexander generals during the hellenistic period), the later Roman empire spread of Hellenism (although majorly it was in Europe) or regardless just the human advancements of Egyptian civilization, we would have scored up and handled the menace of the exploration age, just like you said as China did because they were culturally advanced more than us. China itself had mingled with the diadochi's activities (especially the parthian satrapy) during the hellenistic period. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampul_tapestry).
Politics / Re: Africans Need To Develop A Groundbreaking Philosophy by Invelene01: 12:39am On Aug 05, 2023
By bastardised Hellenism, I mean American democracy and Russian communism, these two powers spear headed the cold war for many decades, just because each one of them wants to spread their philosophy of government to as many nations, they can get and sublet their resources. Just as in this modern situation with Russia and Ukraine-nato conflict. And the ongoing speculation on American and Russian interference in the Niger coup. British and other European powers imperialism spearheaded the exploration age just like the antiquity rise and conquest of ancient empires in euroasia. 20th century wars was all centered on difference in philosophy, just like the German Nazi, and the Soviet Union when European powers were still figuring out themselves, although their was alot of European wars in the middle ages and post renaissance. Europeans bastardised Hellenism because they refined it to their on fitting of Anglo-Saxons and Slavs culture. Which was with them before they came under the Hellenistic influence of the Republic Romans. They had to figure it out for centuries and in the process bastardising it to fit their own culture of barbarism.

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Politics / Re: Africans Need To Develop A Groundbreaking Philosophy by Invelene01: 12:06am On Aug 05, 2023
Egyptian civilization which is more middle-east than Africa per say, in antiquity had one of the first writing system in history (cuneiforms), and majority of their history is known. My question is, as close as Egyptian civilization is to Africa, yet west, central, and south Africa in antiquity didn't develop their own writing system and records of their so acclaimed fame you mentioned about. Why did innermost Africa didn't propagate this crucial human advancements. Instead this advancements where spread throughout euroasia and middle-east.

As for Hellenistic influence, western powers bastardised Hellenism. The core of Hellenistic culture which philosophers like Plato and Aristotle was for the freedom and value of every human as seen in the city of Athens, when they first started the earliest form of democracy. That's the whole point that am trying to communicate. Western powers have bastardised Hellenism, and it all started during the exploration age even to the extent of this china war treaties articles you shared about. China branched out of western influence when they realized how to fix their problem by resorting to communism. But Africa is still under this bastardised Hellenism, that why Western powers still control us just like they did to China, in the 19th and 20th centuries. Africa needs to realize this.

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