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Ghanaians Were Among the Blacks that Started the Ancient Roman Empire/Civilization

Ghanaians Were Among the Blacks that Started the Ancient Roman Empire/Civilization

Preamble
Academic revelation in the twenty-first century has revealed that all the major civilizations that preceded the current one originated from black men and women, except the Medo-Persia and Greek ones. The latter two had been influenced greatly by the former, which enabled them to be more enlightened and developed. They invented many things even though historians had denigrated the achievements made by the former civilizers which had surpassed the last₋mentioned two beyond comprehension.

Babylonian Empire (1894 B.C. to 224 CE),

In Mesopotamia and Babylon, King Badu Nkansah (popularly known as King Nebuchadnezzar), and King Amoabeng (Hammurabi), both from the Amorite dynasty had helped enlighten the world with major development, the invention of writing, commerce, geography and the rule of law both in the political sphere and business domain that became standard for the emerging societies of the world. In religious terms, it had been represented by “Gold” which signified the worth of their achievements and progress compared to the latter and the current ones. “Silver” and “bronze” were given to symbolize the latter. Of course, some other dynasties and conquerors followed these two outstanding leaders, which we do not want to discuss here. Many of them were other black civilizations such as the Elamites and Kassites.

Egyptian Civilization/Empire (3150 B.C to 332/30B.C),

The Egyptian civilization has been discussed prominently in the academic literature by historians and religious scholars, and presently we know that the Kings and their citizens had been of black origin also, and they accomplished many inventions which included the development of modern armor for wars, embalming dead bodies, mathematics, mercantile laws and sundry inventions which opened the eyes of the inhabitants of the world. Presently, the United States of America has the Egyptian pyramid on one of its currencies with the Ghanaian word “ani” (meaning eye) written on top of it.

Ancient Israel and Judah (Bronze Age 1550₋1150 BCE and Iron Age 1150₋950 BCE and Iron Age II 950₋587 BCE)

King Siaw (Saul), the first King of the Israelites, and King Duodu (David), otherwise known as King David in the Hebrew (Nana Abiriw) civilizations led by black men and women, taught the world about service to fellow men and the supernatural God, moral behavior and religious thinking and on how to live with one another on the planet earth. The laws written on cuneiform tablets by their learned scribes, philosophers, and scholars were later written on scrolls to the formulation of early ecclesiastical laws which influenced the writing of modern secular laws in many countries, including the current civilization.

Just as modern historians have downplayed the importance of Black men and women in these significant civilizations that preceded the fragile and stupendous destructive European one, they have even gone further to silence themselves about the achievements of black men and women who engineered the commencement of the popular Ancient Roman Civilization. This civilization, which was symbolized by the metal “Iron”, did superbly well to educate, civilize, and tame the illustrious Germanic tribes, Alan and Slavs who were known as “barbarians” by the Ancient Roman writers and its superior writers such as Herodotus, Tacitus and Jordanes, the Roman historian.

Goal
The article aims to pinpoint that just as we have in present-day Ghana the descendants of the Philistines (Dagomba), Baal god and its citizens (Baal tᴐ), and also in Nigeria the descendants of the Jebussites (Ijebu Ode Yuroba people), currently in modern Ghana, we have the descendants of the Abuakwas who were the main people who commenced the Ancient Roman Civilization. Though later many of these blacks were persecuted and killed in the Italian city called Bosolli, many of these people also fled back to join their clans and people in Ghana when the Roman Emperor called Hadrian declared Canaan as Palestine (i.e., his palace). The Philistines lived in the Gaza area while the Jebusites had inhabited Jerusalem before King David conquered them and took from them or absorbed them. The Baal worshippers had lived in Canaan and had struggled with the Israelites concerning whose God was deemed powerful.

Kemi, Kemeth, and some Akan Tribes of Ghana in Egypt

Baba Kemi, the Yoruba Man
The Akan tribes in Mesopotamia and Babylon which consisted of the Amorites (the Denkyira people including Fante and Nzema) had moved down to Egypt because of drought and wars they could not prevail, and they sought refuge in the Nile fertile land of Egypt. They came down to Egypt which belonged to the Yoruba who now live in the South of Modern Nigeria today. The name Baba Kemi comes to mind because he originally owned the land there and the villages surrounding it. People usually thought of going to Kemi‵s land to avoid starvation. A master of black magic and possessing a special method of healing and leadership style called “Afa”, he was an extraordinary person who could use magic to impress people in a “mysterious manner and circumstances”, which the Ancient Greeks had seen as “mystery”. The Greeks were there to seek knowledge, so Kemi in his mysterious ways could do many things which became wonder to the Greek observers who later coined the name “Kemi‵s mystery” or Chemistry. The latter is referred to today as one of the pure sciences that deal with chemical substances and the reaction of some other substances to produce new ones. Note that Kemi as a Yoruba man was a black man and there the Greeks who were there could be black or Mullatoes or nearly looking black because they were not Albinos or the Germanic tribe, Alan or Slav.

Ewe Pharaoh Ametakpe (Amenophis)

After the death of Baba Kemi in Egypt, the Yoruba man, the Ewe people took over the leadership in Egypt and learned the “Afa magic”. This is a way of determining or predicting the outcome of people's future. The Ewe group could also produce three Pharaohs called Ametakpe I, Ametakpe II, and Ametakpe III. Today, the names of these kings have been corrupted to be Amenophis to disguise them from the world that these Kings were not black people.

The Akan Pharoahs in Egypt (Kemi land, Kemeth),

With the entry of the various Akan tribes including the Amorites into Egypt things became different which commenced progress and many inventions. Quickly, the Akans took over the dynastic power and began their inventions and architectural innovations. They were masters of ruling due to their strong leadership, and Kingship which were very popular in ancient times. They organized themselves in different clans which helped to rule and rule other smaller tribes in Egypt. The Akans came with their civilization which had commenced in Mesopotamia and Babylon. They resolved to build pyramids and develop science, commerce, laws in political and business sectors, and armory building such as horses and chariots. The Akan kings were many Akuffo (Kufu), Akenten (Akhenaten), Tutu Ankomah (Tutukamun), Tutu Mose (Thutmoses), Kwame Mosi (Kamose), Sekyi (Seti), Siamo, Offei Titi (Nefertiti), Dade Afre and others. Today these names have been corrupted by Westerners to disguise the origin of the Kings; they say they are from another region of the earth and therefore of white descendants or extinct.

The Akan Guan Ancestor Nana Abiriw
Now, Canaan belonged to the Hebrew₋Aramaic Ancestor called Nana Abiriw, the source of the Hebrew name and language. He had first worshipped the god called “Nana” in Oz. He had a son called Kenah, whom Canaan was named after, and the father of Biblical Yaw Bram (Abraham). [Terah is not the actual name of the Patriarch‵s father though scholars maintain that.] While in Egypt, the Akans heard that Canaan which belonged to Kenah was being taken over by foreigners, so they decided that part of the family/descendants should move there and live in Canaan to protect the land. This was the purpose for which the Exodus accounted in the scriptures, which was to migrate to Canaan the land that belonged to their ancestor with the words in Ga language “We are leaving the family” (Weshie emo). According to the true account then, there was no practice of slavery or serfdom and this is the real account which the migrants had maintained. What took place in Egypt before the migration was only communal labor not forced migration which is very popular among the Akans to engineer development and progress in societies among the different clans and people. Many people were involved with these communal labor works, among them were different Akan tribes, Ewes, Gas, Yoruba, and other minority tribes that now live in the North West of Africa.

The Ancient Roman Civilization/Empire was mostly black (27 BC to 476 AD)

We have reiterated that Ghanaians (Denkyira people and a segment of the people called the Fantes/Nzema) grounded the Ancient Babylonian Empire. Another tribe which includes the Akwamu people/Amorites also built the Aramaic civilization before moving down to Egypt. They were known as Hyksos by Greek designation. Modern historians have corrupted them to have blue eyes which we think is just a fabrication for them to appear as Asians or Caucasians. If anything they have managed to paint the color of the people blue on the walls to denote themselves as Hyksos. This fabrication must be rejected outright.

When the Babylonian Empire was finally conquered by another Mullato civilization called Medo₋Persia, they did not want to have anything to do with black people because they sharply appeared to be Mullatoes or closer in appearance to the Albino tribes who would later come from Central Asia and fight with the Roman Empire citizens and inhabitants for supremacy for many decades. This behavior compelled many people to move to Egypt and its environment. An Akan city was Kyrenne which is called in English Cyrene. It also made the black people who were remaining in Babylon and the North of Syria move gradually to other parts of Europe. So after the Medo₋Persia Empire failed, the Greeks became powerful due to the influx of the Albino tribes (Helene and Latin) from Central Asia and its environments, who later interbred with the original Black Greek people there. Through their young leader Alexander the Great they took over all the lands that the Medo₋Persians had conquered and ruled. These same fighting experiences and hostilities would be experienced by Black people all over the region for centuries who were mostly in the North Africa and Central European areas which now can be called Italy. It was here that during the fall of more than 2000 years of the Grecian Empire, the Blacks/Ghanaians who were living in these lands would commence the building of the Ironfisted Roman Empire. They were known as the Abuakwa people who had a great leader called Kwame Akwaah, (Kwame Obuakwa) and now has received sainthood with a new name called St Maurice.

So though historians record the commencement of the Roman Empire by Augustus Caesar in 27 BC, and his crowning as the emperor in 31 BC, they leave the mentioning of many of the illustrious Black personalities who started it. Later there would be an attempt to exterminate blacks which occurred in Bosolli and the arena where this persecution took place can visited today.

In AD 193, Lucius Septimius Severus was named ruler of the Roman Empire and became Rome‵s first African Emperor. After the civil war, he became victorious and Severus expanded the border of the empire to new heights, which ushered in a time of imperial transformation and founded a dynasty.

Hadrian was the emperor who assumed control over the vast Roman Empire in AD 117. He followed his adoptive father Trajan. Though he broke the expansionist policies, he was the one who annexed Canaan as his palace, naming it Palestine. He later asked all Blacks to move away from this territory which led to chaos and a fled of many Blacks abroad and to the South of the Sahara Desert, that is, West Africa.

Knowledge of Our Ancestors and Payment of Royalties to Ghanaians

The European civilization owes Ghanaians royalties which must be paid due to the inventions they made in Mesopotamia, Babylon, and Egypt, which had been the basis for the overall developments in the world both political and scientific. The Greeks admit that they had all their education in Egypt and cannot be the first to have developed these. In philosophy where many Westerners see the Greeks as the originators we do not believe it is true. They depended on the Egyptians for their ideas and knowledge. USA, Japan, Britain, Germany, Sweden, and all other emerging great economies must pay Ghanaian government royalties for the invention of writing by the Amorites and science in the early civilizations in which Ghanaians played major roles. The first is the invention of writing on clay tablets called cuneiform. Writing was not the only invention but also mathematics and mercantile laws which King Badu Nkansah (Nebuchadnezzar) and, especially King Amoabeng, introduced into the Empire or Babylonian civilization. We reject the West's attempt to attribute all the inventions made in Babylon and Egypt to themselves or another imaginary civilization from the East. The Amorites were the same Hyksos who the Greeks referred to them. Any attempt to paint their eyes as blue or green is just a fabrication that must be rejected. On the clay tablets called cuneiform, Westerners rub the paintings with black beards to make them look like ones or whites which we are aware of. They show that they had no beard or it had been destroyed through war.

USA NASA and all the Aerospace organizations owe Ghana for the basis of math and scientific developments which enabled them to develop further and travel to space and other planets.

Britain, that is, the United Kingdom for the 120 years they ruled Ghana/Gold Coast took all the gold which they paid nothing to Ghana. Ghana demands a fair share of this cake otherwise they should produce receipts concerning the payments they made before shipping them to England. There is enough evidence that they did not pay for the gold but stole it from the people of Ghana.

The pyramids and tourist revenue in modern Egypt, the travel sites in Iraq and their oil revenue, and the tourist revenue in modern Israel should all pay royalties to the people of Ghana. The records in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, and other places in Syria all show that Ghanaians have left the developments that accrue wealth to them even though they no longer live there because of wars and forced usurpation through migration.

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