Quote Originally Posted by King Ragnar
Yes but if it were not for empuires they would still be runnign around with sticks and stones etc, the empires modernised the world, ok ill admit it wasnt all happy and fun, but without the empires we wouldnt even know about half of the world, we wouldnt know that half the countries now exsisted, and they would not have found us either as they obviously didnt seem to be advancing in the tech tree at all.

And i can never see the empires trying to wipe cultures from the earth, if anythign the empire embraced them and respected them, if they wanted to get rid of all of the tribes etc im sure they could have pritty easily done it, but they didnt so obviously that wasnt the plan.

It was a dog eat dog world, still is, ive said it before they wanted independance they have it, they wanted nothing to do with us so why the hell should they be allowed to come into our countries.

They thought with their independance we can create happy new country wrong, with out the colony owner they have no chance, africa would be better off it was still under foreign rule, it would have sufficient funding, alot better law systems and less poverty.
Ever heard of the library at Timbuktu?

My step-Mom is an African American and she tells it like this;

What the 'a consenting lady and gentleman procreating' were they doing there in the first place? They should have just got the 'a consenting lady and gentleman procreating' out.

Africa, in case you missed it, is the cradle of civilization, both east and west. Scratch the surface and you will find a whole host of civilizations. Most of whom ran for thousands of years.

I can still remember what my Grandad said to me, ( he was in the Indian Army, based at Jubblepore in the 1920's), " The reason India is so poor is because we stole everything they had, all the gold, all the rubys, their land and their country, that's why India is poor. OK this was in my childhood (1960's) and things have improved. The question is, would they have got better faster?