world history II

World History II

World History II

When we talk about Africa , the first thing that comes into picture is a vey poor , undeveloped country . It is closely associated with very high cases of poverty and malnourished people , of overpopulated and illiterate societies . These were the images imprinted in the minds of those who never actually experienced Africa , who never knew what existed before the European settlers came . The time before the slave trades was a different story . It is far from the mental picture being created every time we think of

Africa . It is far from the European of Africans as uncivilized people

The misconception of most people saying that Africans were uncivilized people was brought about by the European settlers who captured ' and tamed ' the black slaves that they are trading . It is true that these Africans cannot speak the English language , or wear the formal clothes that the Europeans wore . These weren 't enough reason for them to be branded uncivilized ' Way back in 1500s , there were already various accounts of African interaction with other people . They have engaged in trade with other tribes and other countries as well . They lived in a prosperous time , with the abundance of food and natural resources . They have established leaderships through their tribes kings , which can already be a sign of being civilized . They have established towns and residential areas which are populated by that time . These facts are more than enough reason to say that these Africans were already civilized , even before these Europeans came and took away all their lives and their possessions ADDIN EN .CITE Craig20051 116Albert M CraigWilliam A . GrahamDonald KaganSteven M OzmentFrank M TurnerThe Heritage of World Civilizations : Volume Two since th2005Prentice Hall (Craig , Graham Kagan , Ozment Turner , 2005

Even before these Europeans came , the Africans already have their own culture , followed their own society and lived their own lives . With the intervention of these European colonizers and slave drivers , everything has changed for them . High class African tribesmen were mixed with regular tribe members , and they were all treated equally - as lowlife black slaves . These misconceptions about Africans have existed in a long time , where even in this time , some people still think wrongly about these people

Many people , who think that the Africans were uncivilized before the European settlers came , were generally misguided . There wasn 't much account on how these black slaves ' lived before they were shipped in different parts of the west . It was unintentional for those who don 't know anything about the lives of these African people before they came here . There wasn 't enough information about them , and by word of mouth people eventually came up with the idea that these slaves were uneducated , uncivilized people from Africa . It wasn 't long since that idea on African has spread even into neighbouring countries , mainly because these African slaves are being traded

It is important to keep the people from knowing much about the origins of these Africans . It...