Whatta bunch of white privilege raaysisms! Whatta 'bout the contributions of Equitorial Guinea!
Oh yeah sure thing......and the US contributed nothing..... Why stop at 500 years?
Israel
Greece
Rome
The US
Actually Rochambeau commanded the French land forces. It was Admiral Comte de Grasse' fleet.
In any case it's a glaring omission to leave out the USA, which is arguably #1. We may not have invented the democratic republic, but we certainly reintroduced to the world. So much that it's the default system of government in the world, at least in theory. It wouldn't be if there was no USA.
And what do they make that we want?
Some dead food, water they didn’t invent and Plueger Butter?
Fact is, we gave the world ice cubes, air conditioning, skyscrapers, Levis, Coca Cola, Starbucks, McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, baseball and so much more.
Nike, Apple, Microsoft, Ford, Chevy, more airplanes than all other countries combined....
Hilaire Belloc, in Europe and the Faith: Sine auctoritate nulla vita (without authority, no life) doubts the influence of genetics, but does accept linguistic coherence, the core of culture.
Whatta bunch of white privilege raaysisms! Whatta 'bout the contributions of Equitorial Guinea!
Left out Hanno and Himilco, Carthaginians who sailed around Africa, former discovered the Gold mines in Gold Coast; latter went to Britain for tin, 500 B.C.; settled SPAIN< establishing small cities there
Himilco was 4 months on the Atlantic ocean, 500 B.C.
IROQUOIS LEGEND 700B.C. “2200 years before the Columbus,”
“foreign people sailed
from a port unknown”
“winds drove them contrary”
“wrecked somewhere on the
southern part of the Great Island”
“them on the summit of a mountain
and remained there but a short time the hawks seemed to threaten them, and were compelled to leave the mountain. They immediately selected a place for residence and built a small fortification in order to provide against the attacks of furious beasts; if there should be any made. After many years the foreign people became numerous, and extended their settlements; but afterwards they were destroyed by the monsters that overrun the country.
“He [Hanno]sailed accordingly with sixty ships,
fifty oars each and a body of men and to the number
of thirty thousand and other necessaries” [500 B.C.]
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500BC PUNIC CARTHAGINIANS PHONECIANS
Phoenicians too.alphabet
Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren
“Heeren’s works”: Tr. from the German, Volume 6
D.A. Talboys, 1838
p487
“V. The Voyage of Hanno commander of the Carthaginians round the parts of Libya beyond the Pillars of Hercules which he deposited in the temple of Saturn” -PP.486-487
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