idk

@Deleted User they had great empires, and no, it wasn't Egypt, Egypt only like 1 or 2 black pharaohs

kush, ethiopea and songhai are the only ones that come to mind

zulus to an extent

@HardMan Benin

@Cobra Commander And what were those? The mali empire was only a wealthy tribe that existed for a while because of their gold and salt deposits that the arabs liked.

but they are not comparable to lets say the UK, china, mongolia, romans etc

@HardMan Ethiopia was propped up by the europeans to fight against the other european nations.

carthage is the only one that comes to mind but it was mostly phoenecian traders

It doesn't matter, because they ultimately had empires, and I honestly hate it when the "we wuz kangz" crowd tries to claim Egypt

nah, ethiopea is old mate, fought the muslims forever

and stood fast for christ

@HardMan They basically just gave them a bunch of guns and said "GO GET EM TIGERS!"

they became christian before the romans

@Cobra Commander And what empires were those? Name one that isn't MUH MALI or MUH ethiopia.

they were spared by them becouse it was just so bothersome to invade

they raided the african kingdoms a bit, sacked them then left

wasn't the songhai pretty old?

@Deleted User Benin, Kush and Axom, Songhai

wait songhai was 15th and 16th century nvm

@HardMan Traveling across a scorching hot desert into a barren savannah that was filled with apes wasn't exactly practical.

ye

kush and axom got owned by romans 24/7 as said

yeah kush was right there

The African civilizations however, like their counterparts on the Caribbean and in the Americas didn't have all the advanced technologies that the Europeans had

@Cobra Commander Benin was a city state that prospered because the british traded with them and then they got destroyed.

Except maybe the North Africans

They had prior contact with the Europeans

north africans were largely influenced by ME

Yeah

and europe

"we totally killed everyone because we were better than them"
"but you have guns and they didn't"
"SHUT UP IT'S RACIAL SUPERIORITY"

Islam spread

That's why North Africa is Muslim

the romans were already owning the shit out of the africans

Mostly

they burned some of their temples

@HardMan North africa during the roman age was nearly completely white.

besides, troops meant to fight european line infantery aren't even optimal vs lightly armoured meele units

they had no armor to speak of and lacked training in meele

@DA GOMMIE JOO It still brings to question why no empire could ever be generated in africa despite being one of the richest regions in the world, and the empires that were generated did so because of trade.