Why didnt Ancient Egypt dominate the Mediteranean?

Sorry Katherine, I see what you mean! I guess I got into the site on the very place whereby I found the info. I was looking for? But, the site navigation seems somewhat difficult, to say the least!

But, since I sometimes so such broad searches, perhaps I can un-wind my brain and go back and find out exactly just what I was searching for in the first place?

Regards,

Originally posted by Aussiedude As the preminent power their for a significan time, why not?

actually they did, Africans were the ones that started all those societies, even the Greeks were Black men. Even Troy was a Black City and no one hears about the part in Troy war where a African King went to Troy to help his uncle fight off the invaders

But I do. See my nic?

NO! In fact, I tend to disregard a lot of things now considered as "fact"! One of them just seems to be any weight that can be placed either upon the Illiad, or other so called ancient songs! I even place little belief upon anything reported by Schliemann! I consider him a charlatan and a dealer in fake antiquities!

I do not even consider that the place we now consider as Troy, has ever been conclusivly identified as such! And, I dare anyone to state that it is so, beyond a reasonable doubt! It is merely the "weight" of time and scholarly acquiescence that leads us today to the above conclusion.

One source is; http://archaeology.about.com/od/ancientgreece/a/homeric1.htm

For example the Wikipedia article concerning Homer says this;

"Though evincing many features characteristic of oral poetry, the Iliad and Odyssey were at some point committed to writing. The Greek script, adapted from a Phoenician syllabary around 800 BCE, made possible the notation of the complex rhythms and vowel clusters that make up hexameter verse. Homer's poems appear to have been recorded shortly after the alphabet's invention: an inscription from Ischia in the Bay of Naples, ca. 740 BCE, appears to refer to a text of the Iliad; likewise, illustrations seemingly inspired by the Polyphemus episode in the Odyssey are found on Samos, Mykonos and in Italy dating from the first quarter of the seventh century BCE. We have little information about the early condition of the Homeric poems, but in the second century BCE, Alexandrian editors stabilized this text from which all modern texts descend.

In late antiquity, knowledge of Greek declined in Latin-speaking western Europe and, along with it, knowledge of Homer's poems. It was not until the fifteenth century AD that Homer's work began to be read once more in Italy. By contrast it was continually read and taught in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire where the majority of the classics also survived. The first printed edition appeared in 1488."

You might well notice, for the first time, the last words of the above; E.g. "The first printed edition appeared in 1488."

It appears to me, that other than second hand accounts from other long dead sources, that "no one" had actually read Homer until the latter part of the 15th century CE! I wonder just what made up the source?

But, that is a story for another section!

Regards,

Edited by opuslola - 01-Apr-2010 at 17:17

Then Bad Azz!, reveal all of that Negroid based poetry? I know you might well be offended by the use of the term "Negroid", but that is merely a classification of human attributes! It is not derogatory! It is scientific! A term with which you are not really familar!

Zionist? You have to be insane? How dare you use such a term!

I will refer you to the authorities! Unless you apologize?

Polly wants a cracker? Laugh!

Hey, are you Polly, I am not from Georgia! chuckle!


Edited by opuslola - 06-Apr-2010 at 20:52

If, I had my way, I might well! But those words that would do so can only be found in "alernative history", or I shall be banned!

So, from a post I made above where it was quoted; "For example the Wikipedia article concerning Homer says this;

"Though evincing many features characteristic of oral poetry, the Iliad and Odyssey were at some point committed to writing. The Greek script, adapted from a Phoenician syllabary around 800 BCE, made possible the notation of the complex rhythms and vowel clusters that make up hexameter verse. Homer's poems appear to have been recorded shortly after the alphabet's invention: an inscription from Ischia in the Bay of Naples, ca. 740 BCE, appears to refer to a text of the Iliad; likewise, illustrations seemingly inspired by the Polyphemus episode in the Odyssey are found on Samos, Mykonos and in Italy dating from the first quarter of the seventh century BCE. We have little information about the early condition of the Homeric poems, but in the second century BCE, Alexandrian editors stabilized this text from which all modern texts descend.

In late antiquity, knowledge of Greek declined in Latin-speaking western Europe and, along with it, knowledge of Homer's poems. It was not until the fifteenth century AD that Homer's work began to be read once more in Italy. By contrast it was continually read and taught in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire where the majority of the classics also survived. The first printed edition appeared in 1488."

Note, please, that I consider the key words from the above post; "Though evincing many features characteristic of oral poetry, the Iliad and Odyssey were at some point committed to writing." And the key words from this sentence were "at some point!" That is, no one knows just when this important event actually happened!Q!!

It is a mystery! As are these words from the above quotation; "In late antiquity, knowledge of Greek declined in Latin-speaking western Europe and, along with it, knowledge of Homer's poems."

Just why did knowledge of Greek decline? No one knows!

But, I do not cry! It is the rest of the historians who follow the consensual history that have to do so!

Edited by opuslola - 06-Apr-2010 at 22:06

Because they lived there.They were majority of Mediterranean population those days.We knew only 7000
years of (re)written history of Egypt.For only 500 we inhabited American continent.After that for less than 300 years  Australia and rest of desert places and abandoned paradises.For 7000 i believe we will find them on Mars if we ever step there!Therefore Phoenicians created polices,City states,cause rest of land simply
belonged to part of Egyptian population among the rest of many others.