I thought the Bronze Age Started in Greece.
Well, for one thing, I never said a word about the Bronze Age, although historically, pinpointing it to a specific place and time would be difficult - once it got out you could make stronger alloys with copper, tin and anything else, the use of it spread from Northern Africa all the way to China.
The Egyptians used to 'Mine' by building a fire against a rock face, letting it get good and how and then throw cold water on it ... causing the rock face to crack
I don't doubt that. But there are archaeological digs showing the use of metal tools in some of the most ancient parts of sub-Saharan Africa. There is a mine in Swaziland that dates to 40,000 BC. They did it first. FWIW, they placed a higher value on using plain copper over other metals, but they were using iron tools inside the first millennium BC.
IIRC my schooling - 'civilization' started in the Fertile Crescent
I guess it depends on what you want to call "civilization" because the Chinese, Indians and some of the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas might differ with you. The Indus Valley civilization pre-dates the Sumerians by about two millennia. The Vincas of Europe are about that old.
Really, what I wanted to do was dismiss the idiotic notion that Africans were jungle-dwelling savages. They were building cities when Europeans were living in caves.
are you stating Egyptians are Africans :shrug: ... because IIRC the Egyptians called Africans Nubian which would mean the Egyptians considered themselves seperate.
Technically they are but I was trying to avoid direct references, since the writer was trying to slam "Negro" over other Africans. Being raised in the West, we learn all about Egypt and Sumer and Persia and Greece and Rome, but we don't learn much about India, China or the many empires throughout Africa. When I adopted my daughter, I had never heard of the Axumite Kingdom, only to learn just how historically significant they were. (I also didn't know that "Lucy" - heretofore believed to be the oldest modern human - was there in Addis Ababa).
[afwiw I think LR is trolling
Since the words were deliberately inflammatory - and laced with the kind of language you might find in stuff decades ago - I tend to agree. I was just trying to see if it was lifted somewhere on the Web - and the last paragraph WAS.