IT is often said that after a war, it is the victor who gets to tell history in his own perspective. In the case of our current era, it is the Europeans who have defined world history largely in their favour. The history often recorded by Europeans in books and film is very much distorted and non-factual, particularly that which pertains to the black people.
The great civilization of Egypt, which was evidently black, has been claimed by whites who have no historical link with that land. Today, there is a field of study called Egyptology which is headquartered in the Vatican, Rome. Everything of a heritage nature that is found in Egypt has to be verified in Rome. The Italians are not Africans, so why should they have anything to do with ancient African monuments and relics?
The ancient Egyptian royalties were buried as mummies. When these mummies were tested for DNA, scientists found the likes of Ramses III with a DNA marker typically found in the modern day Sub-Saharan black Africans. This on top of the numerous artifacts depicting black people as kings is irrefutable evidence to the black origins of the ancient Egyptian civilization.
The Greeks ruled Egypt following Alexander (the great)’s adventure into Africa. This was after 400 BCE and before Egypt’s colonisation Egypt had black rulers and black inhabitants. The great Egyptian civilisation had long existed and was actually falling by the time the Greeks got into the picture. It would therefore be historically incorrect to attribute ancient Egypt’s greatness to whites, yet this is largely the case today.
If one goes to Egypt now, one will find that the majority of people there are of a mixed race called Arabs. This is because the black population of Egypt fled south from the Sahara Desert which had expanded and was causing droughts. Ancient Egypt was as fertile as today’s central and southern Africa and it is desertification that inspired the migration of the blacks from North Africa, to Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Arabs who currently inhabit the land of Egypt did not come from neighbouring North African countries like Tunisia and Lybia but they came as a result of the Ottoman expansion. The Ottoman expansion began in modern day Turkey and it is the one which brought the Arab population which now inhabits Egypt and Arabia. Before this expansion, even Arabia was full of blacks who eventually fled into Africa and India.
The term Arab was derived from Arabah, a land located between Central Asia and the Middle East. This land was inhabited by the biblical Ishmael and his descendants. The language that they spoke was derived from Hebrew and became known as Arabic because of the distinct dialect of the people of Arabah. The Ishmaelites spread into the Middle East and so did the Arabic language. In the time of the Prophet Muhammad, Arabic writing was popularised and again it was derived from Hebrew.
The Ishmaelites were black. Hagar the mother of Ishmael was from ancient Egypt and so was the wife that she gave to her son Ishmael. After the time of Muhammad, the blacks of the Middle East began a world conquest which would mark the beginning of the Moorish civilization (711 CE – 1492 CE). The Quran which was written in Arabic was at the centre of the movement and everyone who spoke Arabic was called an Arab during this period. It is only recently that the term Arab has been used to identify people of mixed race, even if they happen to speak non-Arabic languages like Persian.
In the case of the Moors, some of them intermarried with whites from southern Europe through concubinage and slavery. The whites sold their women to the Moors, on top of other things in order to acquire valuable commodities from Africa and Asia. The mixed race population of North Africa, with the exception of Egypt, is a crop of this history of miscegenation. However,the black descendants of the Moors can still be found in the south of North African nations like Morocco, Algeria, and Lybia.
The history of the modern Egyptian and Middle Eastern Arabs is very different and unconnected to that of the North African Arabs. The two Arab populations actually have distinct names; the Arabs from North Africa are called Maghrebi and the ones in Egypt and the Middle East are called Mashrik. The Mashrik Arabs originated in a place called Anatolia in Turkey.
The founder of the Ottoman dynasty was a black man called Ousman. He was not only black but was described to be of a very dark complexion. The ancient Turks were black as well and there is no mixed race population amongst the Arabs and Latinos that does not have a black contribution to their DNA. Between 1200 CE and 1300 CE, there was a great influx of Mongols as a result of the exploits of the legendary Genghis Khan. The Mongols of Turkey eventually became Muslims and they intermarried with the Turks.
Ousman was a Muslim like most Turks. This was during the Moorish era when Islam had a dominant following in much of the known world. Ousman was a warrior who liberated Anatolia from the Byzantine forces and became a local hero. One day, he dreamt of a gigantic tree growing out of his belly. A Muslim teacher called CheikEdebali interpreted the dream for Ousman and told him that the prophecy was to do with the future glory of the dynasty that would spring from his loins.Edebali then advised Ousman to marry his daughter, so as to help this dream come to be.
Indeed the descendants of Ousman multiplied and they were groomed to be world leaders for earlier on they had known that they would grow to be a mighty nation. The descendants of Ousman acquired an Imperialist ideology inspired by the world around them. They were vying for world dominion.
The centre of the Byzantine Empire was in Constantinople and it was fortified with high walls. It had always been the ambition of the Ottomans to vanquish the Byzantines from their stronghold since the time of Ousman. It was in 1453 CE when a descendant of Ousman known as Mehmet II finally fulfilled this dream and took over Constantinople. The Ottoman’s renamed it Istanbul; meaning ‘in the city’.
The Ottomans centred themselves in Bursa where they built numerous domes, i.e. buildings with conical towers. The city was a strategic trade zone which traded silk from Syria and Persia and spices from Yemen among many other commodities. It attracted Europeans who before invading the Americas traditionally acquired trade commodities from the east. Turkey is the most western point of Asia, beyond Turkey it is Europe.
The Ottoman Empire’s imperialistic ideology led the Turks to be too tolerant of Europeans. It was this tolerance that led to rampant acts of miscegenation between the Turks and the Europeans. This would eventually result in the emergence of the mixed race Turks that are now known as Mashrik Arabs.