[JSteff]

I don't know about that but I have heard some say Africa had some great empires, "with great influence, trade, literature, astronomical and mathematical knowledge, social structure"

They have ruined every empire or socal structure that they or others created on that continent. All of them.

[little jeremiah]

I am not denying that undoubtedly Africa was much greater in the past than now, with cohesive social structure, knowledge of various arts and sciences, and trade. It's just that India's history of civilization is so much older and more vast that they are not interchangeable.