CHINA I. Shang, 1800 - 800 BC II. Shang, 1800 - 800 BC III. Zhou, 1000 - 200 BC Comment: Before the Shang were the Xia (Hsai) also African. EUROPE IV. Rome, 400 BC V. Rome, 100 BC VI. Naples, 200 AD Comment: the African Etrurians were Romes first inhabitants since 5000 BC. NORTH AMERICA VII. Olmec, 2000 - 600 BC VIII. Olmec, 2000 - 600 BC IX. Olmec, 2000 - 600 BC Comment: The May 2004 issue of National Geographic calls the Olmec “the mother cul- ture of Meso-american civilization.” p. 71. EGYPT X. Narmer, 1st, 3100 BC XI. Tiye, 1332 - 1323 BC XII. Taharka, 690 - 664 BC Comment: Egypt’s African kings were great. Taharka pre- vented Sennecherib, Assyria from taking Jews as slaves. From 12,500 BC in the Ethiopian highlands, agriculture was experimented with in Africa with pastoralism near 10,000 BC. From there, Africans travelled to the Near East, Urbaid (to become the origin of Meso- potamia), and Turkey, as in Catal Huyuk. In this ‘Metropolitan’ Africa, individuals such as Nimrod, the African son of Kush, founded the world’s first permanent farming communities and civilizations. ..art, art history, Paul Marc Washington, paleoneolithic@yahoo.com

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