Comment Re:Interesting Difference in Genetics (Score 1) 232
A few things you're leaving out. 1. European slave traders didn't raid anywhere. All the enslavement and selling was done by other Africans, who mostly sold the slaves to Arabs, who sold them to the Europeans. So really all the Europeans did was give gold for a resource that was already being exploited. 2. Egypt was the worlds most powerful military force before rome came along, and was considered one of the most important provices of the eastern roman empire until the Arabs and Turks took over for them. 3. The library at Alexandria GREW under Roman and Eastern Roman rule for most of history. There were a few exceptions. Also, it was lost because of an earthquake, not because of book burning.