I am student of history and am always interested in learning about ancient civilizations. Why is it that with all this black history month stuff that I am be bombarded with across MSM and social media, I don't see anything about ancient sub Saharan African civilizations? It seems that black history only started in the last 500 years and all I hear about are activists from the last 100 years. The Egyptians, Hittites, Minoans, Mesopotamians all had empires dating back to 3300 BC. We can see their archaeological remains with buildings, tools, pottery, tablets, skeletons, references to each other within ancient texts. Why don't the black history month people showcase the achievements of ancient Sub Saharan African civilizations?
EDIT For some reason about 20% of you seem to think that I am saying that the Egyptians, Hittites, and Minoans were sub Saharan African civilizations. That would be a complete misread of my post. I am using them as an example of the fact that there are a lot of archaeological remains of other civilizations from 3300 years ago that can be studied. So if that is the case, then there should be some level of material that can be studied for ancient Sub Saharan African civilizations.
In the greater interest of truly understanding Black History it would only make sense to get the full timeline of the African Diaspora and see their plight in full historical context.
I would love to see this, I think it’s unfortunate that a whole group of people are unawares of their own history. I’m a white dude so I just crack open any old history book and people that look like me are everywhere but that’s because people that look like me wrote the book. It would be nice if black people in the US had a more broad sense of who their people are in history and I know it’s touchy because, slavery, but that’s a small part of it.
Also does anyone have any sources for great sub Saharan African cultures? By great I mean the western measuring stick of greatness, big buildings, large standing armies, crazy academics etc