Mother of all colonizers

The Space Review ^ | 11/15/04 | Sam Dinkin

[KevinDavis]

Before there was Greek, Roman, and British colonies, there was a Babylonian colony in Assyria. Founded in 1700 BC according to the Wikipedia, it became a colonizer itself and a conqueror of major colonizer Tyre around 650 BC, well after the Phoenician city that colonized Carthage in 814 BC. The Phoenicians also colonized Motya in Sicily. The Greeks also were great colonizers, setting up their first colony in Al Mina in northern Syria and Ischia on the Bay of Naples, Italy in 800 BC. The Greeks also colonized Syracuse in Sicily from Corinth in 734 BC.

[KevinDavis]

Very interesting Article...

[KevinDavis]

[Brett66]

So during dinner, I was talking about empire. We certainly have reached imperial hubris quickly. By not joining the Kyoto Accord or the land mine treaty, working to evade the International Criminal Court, withdrawing from the ABM treaty, and skirting the requirements of the Geneva Conventions, the United States is certainly is going into fast forward and losing its legitimacy faster than you can say “Foreign Affairs”

I thought Dinkins was a level-headed guy, guess I was wrong. He's just another bed-wetting liberal.

[xcamel]

The Ainu's had the world populated before these folk stood upright enough to not have their knuckles drag - the last line proves it.

[KevinDavis]

That is true..

[CzarNicky]

When do I get reparations?

[lepton]

*blink blink*

That was profoundly stupid.

[SpaceBar]

The Assyrians had a secret weapon called the "wheel", which remained the best military invention until the mongols invented something called "stirrups". A couple of wheels stuck to something caled a "chariot" was a formidable tool of war.

[Billthedrill]

Wheel, schmeel. It'll never catch on. You kids and your high-tech toys...

[Wiz]

Wikipedia is nothing but a biased encyclopedia calling Iraq terrorism a Iraq Resistance, a site hijacked by radical liberals, justifying themselves as neutral just like the ugly French. What a bad reference to use.

[RightWhale]

Dinkin's heart is in the right place, but he is dead wrong. Private property rights is the key.

[Verginius Rufus]

There was a "colony" of Assyrian merchants in Kultepe, in modern-day Turkey, about 1950 B.C.

Carthage in North Africa was a colony of Tyre. Later there was a Carthaginian colony in Spain called New Carthage (Carthago Nova, now Cartagena). The Spanish later founded a new Cartagena in South America, in what is now Colombia.

The name Carthage means "New City" in Phoenician. Cartagena in Colombia is New New New City.