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The following are not dogmatic positions; I am open to reason.
I use the word “Africans” for those usually (not always) with (color aside) heads longer than round (useful when referring to archeological evidence on web page below) “full” facial features, and hair typically wiry or woolly. With this definition, by phenotype, Nelson Mandela, Bob Marley, Obama, and Ophra are African but the British or Chinese Prime Minister and most South East Asians are not. Large populations around the world can be identified with this definition.
In treating the history of Europe from the establishment of European nations, the history of Europe prior to that point is, for the most part, ignored. It was the Great Migrations that brought the Germanic peoples into Europe from 500 AD to 1500 AD during the Middle Ages. But, prior to this time, the archeological record leaves evidence of Europe being the dwelling place of Africans.
A convenient way to understand the peopling of the modern world is that if the Great Migrations are looked at as phase one resulting in the ancestors of today’s Europeans arriving in their present countries; then phase two of migrations are from Europe to other world destinations: the Far East, the South Pacific, South Africa and elsewhere on that continent, and North and South America including Alaska and Canada.
http://www.beforebc.de/all_africa/04-10a-00-02.htmlThere is evidence (as mentioned earlier) that religion and writing were gained from the west by Africans so there was a peopling of the world and an enrichment of it:
http://www.beforebc.de/all_europe/02-16-500-00-07.htmlMarc Washington
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