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Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Tellmeastory: 9:50am On Apr 01
paramakina202:


Nothing left of your juju empire because it lacked solid structures.The Romans completely destroyed Jerusalam in 70ad but the ruins of that city is still there till today.You can visit the Jewish temples etc....

The MOST IMPORTANT STRUCTURE THERE STILL STANDS.

The Great WALL of Benin, which was in the 1974 Guinness Book of Records, and is recorded as being 4 times longer than the Great Wall of China, and as being ''the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet''!

Only visible in its entirety from OUTER SPACE!




https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

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Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by paramakina202: 9:53am On Apr 01
Tellmeastory:


The MOST IMPORTANT STRUCTURE THERE STILL STANDS.

The Great WALL of Benin, which was in the 1974 Guinness Book of Records, and is recorded as being 4 tmes lomngert than the Great Wall of China, and as being the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet!

Only visible in its entirety from OUTER SPACE!




https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

grin
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Tellmeastory: 9:56am On Apr 01
paramakina202:


grin

Good thing you are laughing, because I'm ready to SCHOOL YOU on Africa's glorious history all day long.

I can even take a week. cool

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Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by paramakina202: 10:05am On Apr 01
Tellmeastory:


Good thing you are laughing, because I'm ready to SCHOOL YOU on Africa's glorious history all day long.

I can even take a week. cool

I know and recognize greatness when I see one.Bini juju empire obviously is not among.
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by SmartyPants(m): 10:52am On Apr 01
paramakina202:


Shame on you too.

For what? You are a small minded fellow deserving of shame. So enjoy it alone.

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Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by paramakina202: 10:56am On Apr 01
SmartyPants:


For what? You are a small minded fellow deserving of shame. So enjoy it alone.

Still shame on you.
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Zaheertyler(m): 2:34pm On Apr 01
Even though we try to act ignorant
There is something that links southern Nigeria to the japanese
Even chinua Achebe of blessed memory said that
And everybody didn't just appear in their current locations
There was obviously migration done

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Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by olisaEze(m): 2:38pm On Apr 01
This study was done by a Chinese professor who set out to prove that the Asian population have their own origins. Unfortunately for him and fortunately for Africans, he only succeeded in proving that the Bini empire’s influence extended beyond the imagination of the Yoruba claimants! Watch as their Ronu rascals come for any tribe that surpasses them in anything! grin

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Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by paramakina202: 2:45pm On Apr 01
SmartyPants:


For what? You are a small minded fellow deserving of shame. So enjoy it alone.

Shame on you still grin
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Reflect7: 5:31pm On Apr 01
paramakina202:


I know and recognize greatness when I see one.Bini juju empire obviously is not among.

African Religion, which your British brainwashed head has reduced to “juju”, is the world’s oldest and purest religion.

Africans INVENTED religion, as was noted by Greek historian Diodorus Sicilus after his 300 BC visit to Africa south of the Sahara, which he called in its entirety, Ethiopia.

He noted that “the Ethiopians invented writing, and have given the Egyptians their religion and culture”.

Egypt practiced the SAME religion as the Edo and other Nigerian traditional religion.

The Pharaohs were Black Africans, and Egypt, like Nubia to its south, were Black African nations.

Africa was referred to as “the land of the Gods” by the ancient Greeks. They referred to Black Africans as “the blameless Ethiopians”, because of their piety and honesty, as was reflected in the crime-free nature of ancient Benin, where people there houses without front doors.

In his epic work, The Iliad, Homer wrote about the Greek god Zeus saying:

“Zeus went yesterday to Ocean, to a feast
With the blameless Ethiopians and all the Gods followed.
There is no time to sit.
To the Streams of Ocean..
To the Land of the Ethiopians
Where they offer a Hecatomb to the Gods.
I go once again
So as to receive my share of the feast.”

- Iliad, by Homer
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by paramakina202: 5:38pm On Apr 01
Reflect7:


African Religion, which your British brainwashed head has reduced to “juju”, is the world’s oldest and purest religion.

Africans INVENTED religion, as was noted by Greek historian Diodorus Sicilus after his 300 BC visit to Africa south of the Sahara, which he called in its entirety, Ethiopia.

He noted that “the Ethiopians invented writing, and have given the Egyptians their religion and culture”.

Egypt practiced the SAME religion as the Edo and other Nigerian traditional religion.

The Pharaohs were Black Africans, and Egypt, like Nubia to its south, were Black African nations.

Africa was referred to as “the land of the Gods” by the ancient Greeks. They referred to Black Africans as “the blameless Ethiopians”.

In his epic work, The Iliad, Homer wrote about the Greek god Zeus saying:

“Zeus went yesterday to Ocean, to a feast
With the blameless Ethiopians and all the Gods followed.
There is no time to sit.
To the Streams of Ocean..
To the Land of the Ethiopians
Where they offer a Hecatomb to the Gods.
I go once again
So as to receive my share of the feast.”

- Iliad, by Homer

Okay what is your african juju religion called in your native bini language?
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Reflect7: 5:41pm On Apr 01
paramakina202:


Okay what is your african juju religion called in your native bini language?

What is your fantasy, magician white saviour who rose up from inside a grave, ate dinner at a table before flying up into heaven before amazed onlookers, called in your little head brainwashed by Roman fantasies and fairytales?
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Reflect7: 5:48pm On Apr 01
Funny how these christians believe in all sorts of juju, from changing water to wine to changing 3 fishes to 500 fishes to walking atop a sea without sinking to raising the dead, to the ritual cannibalism of the Eucharist, to somebody flying up into heaven from a dinner table, yet they claim other religions are juju.

They think since it is (supposedly) white people involved, it is not juju, but “holy miracle” since in their British brainwashed, colonised heads, God is white with a long beard and blacks are devils who must look up to whites.

Pathetic, Programmed dunderheads.
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by paramakina202: 6:23pm On Apr 01
Reflect7:


What is your fantasy, magician white saviour who rose up from inside a grave, ate dinner at a table before flying up into heaven before amazed onlookers, called in your little head brainwashed by Roman fantasies and fairytales?

It is called ressurection of Christ grin
And the religion is called christianity.
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Reflect7: 6:30pm On Apr 01
paramakina202:


It is called ressurection of Christ grin
And the religion is called christianity.

Programmed robot.

If that was a story from your village, would you believe it?

Of course not.

You will call it juju. Superstition. Fantasy.

And condemn your people for indulging in such primitivity.

BUT SPLASH SOME PINK SKIN ON THE STORY AND VOILÀ!

“IT’S A MIRACLE FROM OUR LORD, THE WHITE MAN!”

Disgusting, pitiful caricature.

You are such an embarrassment.
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by paramakina202: 6:45pm On Apr 01
Reflect7:


Programmed robot.

If that was a story from your village, would you believe it?

Of course not.

You will call it juju. Superstition. Fantasy.

And condemn your people for indulging in such primitivity.

BUT SPLASH SOME PINK SKIN ON THE STORY AND VOILÀ!

“IT’S A MIRACLE FROM OUR LORD, THE WHITE MAN!”

Disgusting, pitiful caricature.

You are such an embarrassment.




You are going off topic, we are dicussing bini empire and its juju civilizarion grin
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Reflect7: 6:49pm On Apr 01
paramakina202:


You are going off topic, we are dicussing bini empire and its juju civilizarion grin

No, we’re discussing your head that’s filled with Juju fantasies from Rome.

Explain the method your juju priest ‘Jesus’ used to fly up to heaven from a dinner table.
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by paramakina202: 8:45pm On Apr 01
Reflect7:


No, we’re discussing your head that’s filled with Juju fantasies from Rome.

Explain the method your juju priest ‘Jesus’ used to fly up to heaven from a dinner table.


If you go to Rome,Constantinopole(Istanbul)Egypt,Israel in fact you will see 2000 years old evidence of christian religeous civilization.But you have no evidence that bini ever existed as an empire except some Oka made bronze artifacts grin
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Reflect7: 10:38pm On Apr 01
paramakina202:


If you go to Rome,Constantinopole(Istanbul)Egypt,Israel in fact you will see 2000 years old evidence of christian religeous civilization.But you have no evidence that bini ever existed as an empire except some Oka made bronze artifacts grin

SCHOOL DROPOUT, I JUST SHOWED YOU THE GREAT WALL OF BENIN WHICH IS THE LARGEST SINGLE MAN MADE STRUCTURE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

YET YOUR LOW IQ CAME OUT WITH NONSENSE ABOUT ''NO EVIDENCE''?

DRUNKEN SELF-HATER. SO STUPID AND DUMB HE CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE LAST POST OF EDUCATION HE RECEIVED.

EGYPT AND ISRAEL WERE OUR BLACK AFRICAN ANCESTORS, SO THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS ARE OUR ACHIEVEMENTS.

REGARDING THE WORLD FAMOUS BENIN BRONZES, MANY OF WHICH WERE STOLEN BY THE BRITISH, AND NOW SELL FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN VARIOUS COLLECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD, HERE'S WHAT THE GUARDIAN UK WROTE:

''At the height of its greatness in the 12th century – well before the start of the European Renaissance – the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures.

“These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. “Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.”


https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace


......

WHEN FOREIGNERS KNOW, RESPECT, AND APPRECIATE YOUR OWN HISTORY BETTER THAN YOU, IT'S A CLEAR SIGN THAT YOU HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY BRAINWASHED TO HATE YOURSELF AND YOUR BACKGROUND BY COLONISERS, AND YOU ARE A DISGRACE OF A PERSON.

FELA HAD MENTALLY COLONISED PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN MIND WHEN HE SANG HIS EPIC SONG, 'COLOMENTALITY'..

Colomentality
E be say you be colonial man
You don be slaveman before
Dem don release you now
But you never release yourself



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC6ouP7qRoQ&ab_channel=FelaKuti
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by paramakina202: 9:34am On Apr 02
Reflect7:


SCHOOL DROPOUT, I JUST SHOWED YOU THE GREAT WALL OF BENIN WHICH IS THE LARGEST SINGLE MAN MADE STRUCTURE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

YET YOUR LOW IQ CAME OUT WITH NONSENSE ABOUT ''NO EVIDENCE''?

DRUNKEN SELF-HATER. SO STUPID AND DUMB HE CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE LAST POST OF EDUCATION HE RECEIVED.

EGYPT AND ISRAEL WERE OUR BLACK AFRICAN ANCESTORS, SO THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS ARE OUR ACHIEVEMENTS.

REGARDING THE WORLD FAMOUS BENIN BRONZES, MANY OF WHICH WERE STOLEN BY THE BRITISH, AND NOW SELL FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN VARIOUS COLLECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD, HERE'S WHAT THE GUARDIAN UK WROTE:

''At the height of its greatness in the 12th century – well before the start of the European Renaissance – the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures.

“These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. “Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.”


https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace


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WHEN FOREIGNERS KNOW, RESPECT, AND APPRECIATE YOUR OWN HISTORY BETTER THAN YOU, IT'S A CLEAR SIGN THAT YOU HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY BRAINWASHED TO HATE YOURSELF AND YOUR BACKGROUND BY COLONISERS, AND YOU ARE A DISGRACE OF A PERSON.

FELA HAD MENTALLY COLONISED PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN MIND WHEN HE SANG HIS EPIC SONG, 'COLOMENTALITY'..

Colomentality
E be say you be colonial man
You don be slaveman before
Dem don release you now
But you never release yourself




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC6ouP7qRoQ&ab_channel=FelaKuti

What evidence do you have this mumu boy?

Even ants will make a better mould than that anthill in in your juju kingdom.
This Egyptian structure is almost 4000 years old.That is civilization not some ant mould you have in bini and called it largest earth structure.
Second picture is Aya Sofia built in 537 AD by the Greeks in Constantinopole now Istanbul by Emperor Constantine the great.
Keep crying!

Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Floky215: 10:22am On Apr 02
Tellmeastory:
This incredible video has received nearly 300,000 views on YouTube. Definitely a must-watch. wink

Our ancestors were great explorers and civilizers of this world long before the emergence of Europeans, and we need to reclaim that space. wink

This statue you are looking at below is from Japan's 'EDO PERIOD' which lasted from 1603 to the 1860s.

And a Bini man doesn't need to be told that that posture is the typical traditional Edo military posture as seen on their ancient bronze sculptures.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JD8FTP1cWQ&ab_channel=AfricanHistoryStation


No single connection to Japanese...!!

Edo people ane Japanese are two distinct unique group..!!

Edo are original and got no affiliation to the Japanese..!!
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Reflect7: 12:07pm On Apr 02
Floky215:



No single connection to Japanese...!!

Edo people ane Japanese are two distinct unique group..!!

Edo are original and got no affiliation to the Japanese..!!

Shut up your dumb face.

The video presented DNA evidence linking the two peoples.

Do you know DNA means?

Dropout.
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Reflect7: 12:12pm On Apr 02
paramakina202:


What evidence do you have this mumu boy?

Even ants will make a better mould than that anthill in in your juju kingdom.
This Egyptian structure is almost 4000 years old.That is civilization not some ant mould you have in bini and called it largest earth structure.
Second picture is Aya Sofia built in 537 AD by the Greeks in Constantinopole now Istanbul by Emperor Constantine the great.
Keep crying!


GO AND ARGUE WITH THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS WHO DECLARED THE GREAT WALL OF BENIN THE WORLD’S LARGEST MAN-MADE STRUCTURE IN ITS 1974 AND 1982 EDITIONS, YOU SELF HATING PEA BRAIN DROWNED IN INFERIORITY COMPLEX.

TODAY YOU ARE IN GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS FOR LONGEST COOKING SESSION BY AN OLOSHO, TO SHOW YOU HOW FAR WE HAVE FALLEN WITH CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM RUBBISH.

THE GREAT WALL OF AFRICA - A Book Review

Earthworks of Benin and Ishan, the Great Wall of Africa, also known as the Great Wall of Benin is almost 10,000 miles long and at some points reaches almost 60 feet in height.

Even though it holds a place in the 1982 Guinness Book of World Records as the most massive structure that has ever been constructed, almost no one outside of a select few archeologists and specialists has heard of its enormous breadth.

This book attempts to change that forever.
The Great Wall of Africa or Great Wall of Benin actually consists of a series of linear earthworks, many of them circular, some straight, some which stand on their own, and others that interconnect across a large area of Southern Nigeria.

The Great Wall of Africa, like the Great Wall of China, is not a single wall, but a series of separate walls.

Until the writing of this book, and another that I authored called: The Real Wakandas of Africa: Dr. John Henrik Clarke vs. Herman Cain, the Great Wall of Africa, which stretches 9,941 miles long, was known popularly among African scholars as the Walls of Benin.

However, as I shall show, like the Great Wall of China, they were created by a single civilization, and therefore, constitute one major wall system.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Wall-Africa-Empire-Benins/dp/B085R82XT9#:~:text=change%20that%20forever.-,The%20Great%20Wall%20of%20Africa%20or%20Great%20Wall%20of%20Benin,large%20area%20of%20Southern%20Nigeria.
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by paramakina202: 12:20pm On Apr 02
Reflect7:


GO AND ARGUE WITH THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS WHO DECLARED THE GREAT WALL OF BENIN THE WORLD’S LARGEST MAN-MADE STRUCTURE IN ITS 1974 EDITION, YOU SELF HATING PEA BRAIN DROWNED IN INFERIORITY COMPLEX.


I do not rate your juju kingdom. Nothing you wan tell me.Self hating Based on what na?
Was I ever part of your juju bini kingdom?
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Reflect7: 12:30pm On Apr 02
paramakina202:


I do not rate your juju kingdom.

I do not rate the opinion of school dropouts.

Nothing you wan tell me.Self hating Based on what na?
Was I ever part of your juju bini kingdom?

You are a LOW IQ DUNCE who doesn’t understand that African heritage is HIS heritage, regardless of his specific “tribe”.

Just as all Europeans adhere to the Roman and Greek heritage regardless of their proximity to those places.

But you, a dunce with no brain, considers African history as worthy of insults and denigration if it’s not from your “tribe”.

You are damaged by primordial tribalism, cultural myopia, rank ignorance, colonial brainwashing and low IQ.
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by paramakina202: 1:00pm On Apr 02
Reflect7:


I do not rate the opinion of school dropouts.



You are a LOW IQ DUNCE who doesn’t understand that African heritage is HIS heritage, regardless of his specific “tribe”.

Just as all Europeans adhere to the Roman and Greek heritage regardless of their proximity to those places.

But you, a dunce with no brain, considers African history as worthy of insults and denigration if it’s not from your “tribe”.

You are damaged by primordial tribalism, cultural myopia, rank ignorance, colonial brainwashing and low IQ.

The egyptian civilization I am celebrating is it not African heritage?Ethiopia is not great African civilization. If you visit you go see evidence.
Of there are many great african civilizations that are worth of mention not your juju mud
hut civilization that couldn't stand the test of time.
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Reflect7: 10:07pm On Apr 02
paramakina202:


The egyptian civilization I am celebrating is it not African heritage? Ethiopia is not great African civilization. If you visit you go see evidence.

Thoughtless. Do you think it is a coincidence that Ethiopia was never colonised?

That's why they retain many of their ancient structures till date.

Egypt was so coveted by the whites that instead of destroying it, they claimed it was THEM that built it. A rancid LIE they still perpetrate till this day in cahoots with their fellow Arab land thieves who today call themselves 'Egyptians'.



Of there are many great african civilizations that are worth of mention not your juju mud
hut civilization that couldn't stand the test of time.

Always glad to educate an illiterate.

Let's start off with Benin, which you just insulted with your little mental midget lips.

Benin city was a city of multi-storeyed public buildings and monuments.. They built with MUD BRICKS, which were the most commonly used building materials in West Africa all the way up to Pharaonic Egypt and Nubia.

You are a child, so you don't know that MUD BRICKS were respected and durable building materials in the ancient world, right up till this day. Huge multi-storeyed monuments are built with them.

This is a drawing of Benin City in 1847 by the English visitor, Mary Evans.

This was 50 years before it was invaded by the British.



According to scholars,

''At the end of the 13th century, a European traveler encountered the great metropolis of Benin in West Africa (present Nigeria, Edo State), writing: “The town seems to be very great. When you enter into it, you go into a great broad street...which seems to be seven or eight times broader than the Warmoes street in Amsterdam…The King's palace is a collection of buildings which occupy as much space as the town of Harlem, and which is enclosed with walls. There are numerous apartments for the Prince`s ministers and fine galleries, most of which are as big as those on the Exchange at Amsterdam. They are supported by wooden pillars encased with copper, where their victories are depicted, and which are carefully kept very clean. The town is composed of thirty main streets, very straight and 120 feet wide, apart from an infinity of small intersecting streets. The houses are close to one another, arranged in good order. These people are in no way inferior to the Dutch as regards cleanliness; they wash and scrub their houses so well that they are polished and shining like a looking glass.” (Source: Walter Rodney, ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, pg. 69)

The medieval Nigerian city of Benin was built to “a scale comparable with the Great Wall of China”. There was a vast system of defensive walling totalling 10,000 miles in all. Even before the full extent of the city walling had become apparent the Guinness Book of Records carried an entry in the 1974 edition that described the city as: “The largest earthworks in the world carried out prior to the mechanical era.”

Sadly, in 1897, Benin City was destroyed by British forces under Admiral Harry Rawson. The city was looted, blown up and burnt to the ground. A collection of the famous Benin Bronzes are now in the British Museum in London. Part of the 700 stolen bronzes by the British troops were sold back to Nigeria in 1972.

Here is another account of the great Benin City regarding the city walls “They extend for some 16 000 kilometres in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They cover 6500 square kilometres and were all dug by the Edo people. In all, they are four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. They took an estimated 150 million hours ..to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet.” - Source: Wikipedia, Architecture of Africa.” Fred Pearce the New Scientist 11/09/99.


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WHY BENIN CITY WAS DESTROYED.

(By the way, ANY ancient city in Europe or Israel could easily be destroyed and all traces of it eliminated, if there is a colonial intent to do so. No building materials can withstand bombardment)

Over 100 African cities were DESTROYED, BOMBARDED AND BURNT DOWN BY EUROPEAN COLONIAL INVADERS.

Benin City was one of them, and was destroyed in 1897.

HERE IS WHY IT WAS DESTROYED: It was called the 'TERRA NULLIUS' directive.

According to scholars,

''Europeans invaders have destroyed most of the African cities either as punitive actions or under the scramble for Africa ‘Terra Nullius’ law.

During the scramble for Africa by Europeans, the main way to prove that a land was qualified for colonization or take over was ‘Terra Nullius”, a Latin expression deriving from Roman law meaning “land belonging to no one”, which is used in international law to describe territory which has never been subject to the sovereignty of any state, or over which any prior sovereign has expressly or implicitly relinquished sovereignty. Sovereignty over territory which is terra nullius may be acquired through occupation”

Many islands were acquired that way when it was possible to slaughter the small population and easily prove that the land was empty before the arrival of colonial powers.

But very soon, the colonial powers were in difficulty to find “land belonging to no one”. Africa was not a Terra Nullius. Consequently, the terra nullius law was altered to include land inhabited by 'savages and uncivilized people'.

Again, very quickly the colonial power found it difficult to prove that Africa was a land of savages and uncivilized people. Instead they found, as demonstrated above, queendoms and kingdoms with great palaces and highly developed political and social norms.

At this stage, the colonial power had to DESTROY any sign of civilization, to establish Terra Nullius.

From then on, the colonial power spent a lot of energy to destroy and burn African cities, historical buildings and monuments, slaughtered the African elite of engineers, scientists, craftsmen, writers, philosophers, etc.

There is a museum in Paris with 18 000 human heads of people killed by the French colonial troops and missionaries. It’s called “Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris”.

Among the heads are the ones of African kings, kings’ families, African engineers, writers, army officers, spiritual leaders, but also ordinary men, women, children that the french found unusual, exotic enough or interesting to kill to enrich their Museum of natural history...

France was not alone in the european competition to behead the maximum of variety of exotic people. The skulls and heads of many Africans still could be found in museums and unusual places around Europe.

Another consequence of the Terra Nullius law defined as a land inhabited by savages, lead to the capture of Africans to display in zoos and public events around Europe, in primitive conditions, to demonstrate the 'inferiority and barbarism' of the African people.

From that moment till now, most Europeans still think Africans are savages, inferior, grotesque, unintelligent people. They more an African would display features that would fit that stigma, the more he or she would be liked by them.''

https://corespirit.com/articles/100-amazing-african-cities-that-were-completely-destroyed-by-europeans


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Now can you see the desperate levels the Europeans went to eradicate all traces of black civilization?

IF YOU, based on their destructive actions, have been made to believe you had no civilization in the past, the JOKE IS ON YOU.

They've manipulated YOU.
Re: Was The Benin Kingdom Involved In Japan's ''Edo Period''? (Amazing Video) by Reflect7: 10:22pm On Apr 02
British troops inside the Palace of the Oba of Benin after destroying it with bombs and cannon fire, and looting its treasures, some of which are scattered on the floor. You wanted to see ''evidence''. There's your evidence. (1897)

Reginald Kerr Granville, Interior of King’s compound burnt during fire in the siege of Benin City, with three British officers of the Punitive Expedition [from left, Captain C.H.P. Carter 42nd, F.P. Hill, unknown], seated with bronzes laid out in foreground, 1897, photograph, 16.5 x 11.5 cm (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University)

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