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Author: berr

Jan 4th 2010 at 3:33:57 PM

[[AC:TruthInTelevision]]

* African Kingdoms pre- and ''during'' European Colonization (basically anything set in Africa before the 1930s) are ''canonically'' decried / denied by many European ''historians'' as not being "real kingdoms" but mere "petty chiefdoms".  Unlike, say, the oh-so-highly advanced Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian [[strike:kingdoms]] [[TakeThat petty chiefdoms]] whom these same scholars write reams of books about.

** Although to be fair, the history of DarkAgeEurope is also HistoricallyAbsent.

** Holds true for Marxist historians as well: unlike right wingers, they focus on the "socio-economic history" of so-called "tribal" peoples and declare the political history of these places (pre-colonial Africa and the Americas) irrelevant to a "people centered view".

** Conservative historians merely deny these places ''have'' a pre-colonial political history that is "notable" or "verifiable".  [[ThatOtherWiki sound familiar]]?

* Along the same lines, the British-recognized territorial boundaries of the Iroquois Nation and Cherokee Nation which had their own national boundaries and constitutions have been entirely scrubbed from the U.S. history books.