{"id":100000033,"date":"2022-11-27T22:31:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T22:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernmelanin.com\/toh\/2022\/11\/27\/introduction-to-when-the-world-was-black-part-one\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T03:47:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T03:47:01","slug":"introduction-to-when-the-world-was-black-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernmelanin.com\/toh\/book-excerpts\/introduction-to-when-the-world-was-black-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to When the World was Black, Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cHistory is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be.\u201d \u2013 John Henrik Clarke<\/em><\/p>\n

Why are there are Black communities all over the world, from southern Russia to southeast Asia, from South America to the islands of the South Pacific? Some of them are no longer around, but we know they were there. They were everywhere.<\/p>\n

But who were these people? Where did they come from? How did they get to distant outposts like Easter Island, Tierra del Fuego, and even the frigid regions of northern Europe, Canada, and Siberia? And what role did these people play in establishing the world\u2019s first cultures and civilizations? Finally, what happened to them?<\/p>\n

These are the questions we\u2019ll answer in this book. In this book, you\u2019ll learn about the history of Black people. I don\u2019t mean the history you learned in school, which most likely began with slavery and ended with the Civil Rights Movement. I\u2019m talking about Black history BEFORE that. Long<\/em> before that. In this book, we\u2019ll cover over 200,000 years of Black history.<\/p>\n

For many of us, that sounds strange. We can\u2019t even imagine what the Black past was like before the slave trade, much less imagine that such a history goes back 200,000 years or more.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine what that does to a person? To grow up believing their people started out as slaves? Perhaps some of us know a little about Africa, but how much do we really know? How much do we know about the extent of the ancient Black empires that spanned far beyond continental Africa? Chances are, very little.<\/em> In this book, we\u2019ll tell the stories you haven\u2019t been told.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll talk about the Black migrations that settled the world. We\u2019ll talk about the Black people who founded the first cultures and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, the Pacific Islands, and North and South America. No exaggeration. This book covers more than 200,000 years of Black history across every square inch of the Planet Earth. We\u2019ll rediscover a past when the world was Black. As we learn the history of our ancestors, we\u2019ll learn more and more about ourselves.<\/p>\n

Why Study the Past?<\/h4>\n

Why are ancient Black civilizations important? What do they have to do with us nowadays? Could this information serve as anything more than a source of inspiration? Or are these stories mere reminders of the greatness that once was?<\/p>\n

I could answer those questions myself, but it makes sense to draw on the wisdom of those who came before me. People like historian John Henrik Clarke, who said the profound words quoted above. Or Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop, who said, \u201cIntellectuals out to study the past, not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.\u201d[i]<\/a><\/p>\n

This is what Malcolm X meant when he said in his 1963 \u201cMessage to the Grassroots\u201d:<\/p>\n

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you\u2019ve got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.<\/p>\n

He was echoing the sentiments of his teacher,[1]<\/a> the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who said in the classic Message to the Blackman<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The acquiring of knowledge for our children and ourselves must not be limited to the three R\u2019s \u2013 \u2018reading, \u2018riting and \u2018rithmetic. It should instead include the history of the Black nation, the knowledge of civilization of man and the universe and all the sciences. It will make us a greater people of tomorrow. We must instill within our people the desire to learn and then use that learning for self.[ii]<\/a><\/p>\n

Later in the book, he connects the study of history with the pursuit of self-knowledge:<\/p>\n

I am for the acquiring of knowledge or the accumulating of knowledge \u2013 as we now call it; education. First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to understand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning. [iii]<\/a><\/p>\n

What they\u2019ve been telling us is that history is a rich subject because it can illuminate the problems of the present, and present solutions that have already worked for such problems.<\/p>\n

History can also highlight the failures of the past, to help us see what not to do again. The past is like an alternate universe that obeys the same laws as our own, where we can see what happens when different things are attempted.<\/p>\n

Studying the past also allows us to see how our present-day conditions came to be. Both our strengths and our weaknesses are born from the triumphs and tragedies of our collective past. Thus, if we want a better present and future, we must come to understand the past.<\/p>\n

In writing this book, I gave myself the daunting task of covering all the cultures and civilizations of the world, going back as far as the earliest evidence of human settlement, and extending up to the point of European contact. That\u2019s quite a lot of history. Thus, this book had to be split into two parts.<\/p>\n

Part One covers history from 200,000 to 20,000 years ago. These were the \u201cprehistoric\u201d cultures of the Paleolithic Age. This might make them sound \u201cprimitive,\u201d but we\u2019ll soon see that these cultures were actually highly advanced.<\/p>\n

Part Two covers history from 20,000 years ago to the point of European contact. This is the time that prehistoric cultures grew into ancient urban civilizations, a transition known to historians as the \u201cNeolithic Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right now, you\u2019re looking at Part One. In this book, you\u2019ll learn:<\/p>\n

Who the Original People of this planet are.
\nWhy a branch of these people left Africa and settled the rest of the world.
\nHow and when these people settled the entire Earth.
\nWhy these people settled everywhere from the arctic tundra of Siberia to the deserts of Peru, and what cultures they established there.
\nThe \u201cextinction event\u201d that nearly wiped out half of the human race.
\nThe people who were here before humans, and the threat they posed to human survival.
\nHow these threats affected those who survived and became us.
\nHow the actions and choices of these Original People affect our lives over 100,000 years later.
\nWhat kind of culture the earliest humans had, and if they were \u201cprimitive savages\u201d or scientifically and culturally advanced?
\nThe innovations and technology these Original People introduced to all of the world\u2019s earliest human cultures.
\nThe threats faced by the direct descendants of these Original People who have survived into modern times.
\nHow we can apply the lessons of the past to the problems of the future.<\/p>\n

This book is, of course, not the first to explore the subject of ancient Black history. And it will certainly not be the last. What makes this book different is its scope, its depth, and its approach.<\/p>\n

This book covers the Black history of Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas, whereas most texts focus on a very specific area, typically limited to popular regions like the Nile Valley. This book is also different because of how much work it took to put it together.<\/p>\n

To summarize, here are ten reasons why this book was so insanely difficult to research and write:<\/p>\n

Most popular texts on ancient Black history are NOT multidisciplinary (with a few exceptions, like They Came Before Columbus<\/em>). This book is one of only a few works that looks at archaeological, linguistic, genetic, skeletal, mythological, and anthropological data to give readers the \u201cwhole picture.\u201d
\nFew works have attempted to dig any further back than 4,000 BC. This book covers the human journey from over 200,000 years ago, up to our first encounters with Europeans. That\u2019s quite a lot to condense into one text. We did however find a way to fit it in two books. Thus, this book is split in two parts, one half covering the distant prehistoric part (where the foundations were laid), and the other half covering the ancient Black past when big cities were built.
\nThis book covers not just one part of the world, but the entire world. Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, the Americas, the Pacific Islands, you name it, it\u2019s covered. In many of these areas, you seriously have to dig to find any of the data you\u2019re looking for.
\nOur goal is to be respectful to Original People throughout the world, and considerate of their unique local heritages, while still being truthful about the Black foundations of these people, and later Black infusions into their civilizations.
\nIt\u2019s not just a reference book, it\u2019s an easy-to-read<\/em> reference book. This book is meant be encyclopedic in nature, yet inviting and easy to read. The content is specific enough to warrant quoting in academic papers, while not so technical that readers can\u2019t keep up. So by all means, quote us in your research papers! If you find us using conversational language to make something easier to understand, you may not want to quote THAT line.
\nIt\u2019s just not as simple as saying \u201cBlack folks did this.\u201d There is no such thing as a monolithic Black culture or people. Black people are the most diverse people on Earth. There were at least three separate waves of Black people who populated the planet, each with their own unique contributions. Many of these people branched off and evolved locally into smaller subgroups.
\nWe have to exemplify the methods of responsible scholarship. It\u2019s too easy to offer bold claims that can\u2019t be proven, but that goes against everything SDP stands for, and we believe that kind of \u201cscholarship\u201d is part of the problem plaguing our communities today.
\nThis isn\u2019t a collection of \u201cfamous firsts\u201d or disconnected Black history trivia. We\u2019re actually telling the story of how this world came to be the way it is today. Telling the processes behind the highlights (for example, the backstory to the construction of the pyramids) isn\u2019t as exciting as just listing the highlights, but that\u2019s what separates a history book from a book of \u201cfun facts.\u201d We\u2019re not just telling what happened, we\u2019re explaining how it happened. As you can imagine, you won\u2019t find stories about 10,000-foot-tall temples on page one. And while it IS amazing that the Black people of the Indus Valley had toilets and sewers 4,000 years ago (in contrast to Europeans who were throwing their bodily waste out the window as recently as the 1600s) we have to understand how much actually led up to these developments.[2]<\/a>
\nThis book is part of our company\u2019s campaign to engender empowered readers. Too often, our great historians and scholars have died without anyone to continue their work as intended. In other cases, lecturers and academics refuse to teach others how to find what they\u2019ve found. We\u2019re doing things differently. This book is full of open-ended questions and theories to research or expand upon, as well as guidelines on how to do the research. On our website, we\u2019ve created a forum where a new scientific community can come together and continue writing this history. We call it \u201copen source history.\u201d
\nFinally, we work life lessons into all of our books. This can\u2019t just be a history book. This has to be a window into our past that allows us to better plan our futures.<\/p>\n

This book is also different because we don\u2019t resort to fantastic claims without proof. That\u2019s just something we don\u2019t do, even if readers nowadays tend to let other authors get away with it. We want to teach critical thinking, so we lead by example. If it\u2019s an extraordinary claim, it requires extraordinary evidence. If we can\u2019t back it up, we won\u2019t say it. If it\u2019s just a theory, we\u2019ll say that, and we\u2019ll identify all that facts that suggest our theory is plausible.<\/p>\n

Finally, we are big on reality. The facts are amazing by themselves. We don\u2019t need to make it seem like Black people built civilizations all over the world with magic or psychic powers. Doing so makes the accomplishments of the past seem effortless, and that sets us up for failure today \u2013 because nation-building nowadays is certainly not effortless. Doing so also requires no explanation of the process by which nation-building occurs, so you\u2019re left with some fun stuff to believe in, but nothing you can actually use. We actually consider this kind of \u201cteaching\u201d to be a form of exploitation, and advise you to keep your eyes out for the people who peddle this kind of fantasy to those who deserve better.<\/p>\n

The following guidelines should make it easier to read and understand this book:<\/p>\n

Think of this book like a reference book. It\u2019s full of literally thousands of years\u2019 worth of content. To support many of the arguments we make, I\u2019ve had to incorporate lots \u2013 and I mean lots \u2013 of data. Sometimes, this can be overwhelming. The vocabulary isn\u2019t always easy either. But here\u2019s the first step: relax.
\nYou can reread this book as many times as you need to. And unlike The Science of Self, Volume One<\/em>, you don\u2019t necessarily have to read this book from front to back. You can skip around, because this work is meant to be encyclopedic like The Hood Health Handbook<\/em> \u2013 a useful reference on over 1,000 different historical topics.
\nIn other words, if you come across a difficult concept, a technical-sounding quote, or a section that simply doesn\u2019t catch your interest, skip it. Often, those long block quotes are followed by an explanation in laymen\u2019s terms. And what doesn\u2019t catch you on your first read might catch your interest on your second read.
\nHowever, it might be easiest to understand if you don\u2019t skip around too much, because difficult concepts are explained the first time they\u2019re mentioned, but not again afterwards.
\nIf you don\u2019t feel like keeping a dictionary next to you while you read, there are free dictionary apps for most smartphones, and Dictionary.com is easy to use as well. Wherever we can, we define tough words, but you still might run into a few that you need to clarify. Don\u2019t stress! You\u2019re improving your vocabulary. Soon, you\u2019ll be able to use \u201canthropometry\u201d in a sentence.
\nWhen you read, write in the margins and highlight text as often as you can. You may even want to use one of those colorful sticky-tab bookmarking systems.
\nIt\u2019s also helpful to keep a notebook where you take notes and record your thoughts.
\nWe always ask that you share our work with others. We appreciate when you take pictures of our books and share them online, or post quotes with the necessary credits. SDP thrives off word-of-mouth.
\nAt the same time, you may not get great results if you introduce this book to a friend who doesn\u2019t like reading. You may need to start with a book like How to Hustle and Win,<\/em> or Rap, Race, and Revolution<\/em>, or Knowledge of Self<\/em>. Those books are better suited for general audiences. This book, like The Science of Self, Volume One<\/em>, is much heavier reader and will be tough for the uninitiated.
\nStill, carry the book with you. We delay our eBook releases (sometimes for a year or more) for a reason! We want people to bring this knowledge into the REAL world. We love the internet as much as you do, but we\u2019re trying to kill all that disconnectedness and \u201creinvent the world\u201d by bringing our people back together. (You\u2019ll get it when you read this book).
\nSo take this book out with you, and let those random conversations begin. You\u2019ll be surprised how much good can come from such a small gesture.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> It should, of course, be noted that Malcolm X also consulted heavily with others, including Dr. John Henrik Clarke and Queen Mother Moore.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> They say \u201cRome wasn\u2019t built in a day,\u201d but Rome was copied off nearby Black civilizations that took thousands of years to establish. So what took Rome so long?<\/p>\n

[i]<\/a> Cheikh Anta Diop. (1974). African Origin of Civilization. Lawrence Hill Books.<\/p>\n

[ii]<\/a> Elijah Muhammad. (1965). Message to the Blackman. Elijah Muhammad Books.<\/p>\n

[iii]<\/a> Elijah Muhammad. (1965).<\/p>\n

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