What were the greatest BLACK africans civilizations?

Why aren't Ethiopia and Niger red?
Both are Afro Asiatic nations

Not that guy but good defense

I think this is just showing nations that think of themsves as arab and which don't

>responding to obvious bait with this autistic racist tirade

>taking the bait after pointing it out
You're as stupid as he is.

- Kush (aka Nubia): for all intents and purposes a copy-pasted, less impressive Egypt; but unarguably a black civilization that dominated the upper (southern) Nile with a number of developed city-states, most notably Meroe.

- Aksum: dominated the Horn of Africa and Yemen and built up a stranglehold on all trade between India and Egypt (then a part of the Roman Empire). Considered by Persian contemporaries to be one of the "great" kingdoms (alongside Rome, China, India and the Persians themselves). They built their structures like Lego bricks - a few stelae still stand, but most have been "disassembled" over the ages (pic related)

- Ethiopia: medieval bastion of Christendom that started building fortresses and lines of defense in reaction to successive Islamic incursions, and succeeded in staving them off. They "dug out" their churches rather than building them up, so major locales like Lalibela are partially underground. Successor state to Aksum.

- Mali: one of several loosely-held "empires" of confederated tribe-nations across West Africa, and probably the greatest (see also: Songhai and Ghana). Considered by some to be the "greatest" African civilization because of its sheer size, but less developed than East African kingdoms, preferring mud structures to stone. Mansa Musa was probably the wealthiest man on the planet during his life due to Mali's lucrative trade deals with the greater Islamic world. Timbuktu is the prototypical Malian town.

"Afro-Asiatic" doesnt mean that theyre middle eastern. Subsaharan west africa also had a massive amount of influence from north africa via trade, are you going to color that red too? Its really an arbitrary division to seperate black africa from the rest of it, and in east africa especially its nonsensical and throwing it into some oversimplified arab pile or black pile would only be done for misleading political reasons because it is very clearly a unique area compared to either region and should be regarded as such.

Malian Empire, Ashanti Kingdom, Great Zimbabwe, Benin Empire. I believe there were some cool Kongo kingdoms as well but cant remember off the top of my head. Africa did develop sedentary agriculture later than most other areas so doesnt have civilizations as "impressive" as the rest, but this is really no evidence of inferiority because African civilization developed at the same rate European and Asian civilization did after the advent of sedentary agriculture, and we can appreciate its history as a model of that early civilizational development instead of being faggy sperglords measuring eachothers dicks.

- Yoruba: not a civilization, but a cultural identity that dominated what is now modern-day Nigeria. Developed the most technically complex artistic works in pre-European contact Africa (see pic related). Supposedly decorated their wooden longhouses with painstakingly intricate bas reliefs according to explorers and traders who visited the area.

And that's really it. Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the west and south, had minuscule populations up until very recently, so historically you have a few "kingdoms" of like 3 to 4 villages making up the rest of the continent, with thousands of even smaller tribal groups in between. It's like if Pre-Christian Western Europe was never romanized or developed, and continued to persist at the "Celtic mound town" stage indefinitely up until a force with technology several orders of magnitude more complex set up shop.

Benin seemed to have been relatively impressive; particularly its ramparts and walls.

Great Zimbabwe looks like it could've been the nucleus of something great; shame it didn't manage to last.

Good posts, we need more of them around here

Punt, Nubia, Ethiopia.

>The Kingdom of Aksum (also known as the Kingdom of Axum, or the Aksumite Empire) was an ancient kingdom located in present-day Eritrea and the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.[2] Ruled by the Aksumites, it existed from approximately 100 AD to 940 AD. The polity was centered in the city of Axum. It grew from the proto-Aksumite Iron Age period around the 4th century BC to achieve prominence by the 1st century AD, and became a major player on the commercial route between the Roman Empire and Ancient India. The Aksumite rulers facilitated trade by minting their own Aksumite currency, with the state establishing its hegemony over the declining Kingdom of Kush. It also regularly entered the politics of the kingdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, and eventually extended its rule over the region with the conquest of the Himyarite Kingdom. The Persian Prophet Mani (died 274 AD) regarded Axum as one of the four great powers of his time, alongside Persia, Rome, and China.[3][4]