Comments by "Ikenga Spirit" (@ikengaspirit3063) on "11 Obscure Countries with Amazing Histories." video.

  1. And they say anime is unrealistic
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  2. What if Tang continued their expansion into Central Asia after the Battle of Talas (None of the rebellions that followed after that crippled the dynasty). What if Viking expansion took them all the way to West Africa, establishing trade routes btw West Africa and Europe through the Atlantic by 1000 AD
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  3. I mean they may be underated but probably not as underated as the rest of the guys on this list
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  4. On the Mongols invading India, they would probably convert to Islam as it would be the religion of most of the other steppe people is coalition with them.
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  5. And Africa is far from a single unified Culture. Also Egypt as it existed then had no historical basis for any of that while the Kingdom of Asturias did as the rump state of the Visigoths, that is why it is called re
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  6. But Leopold was well aware of, promoted and hid the evidences of what was going on in the Kongo under his watch. Like it was a company that controlled southern Nigeria too and but it didn't see nearly as much murder. Huge difference here is that Leopold directly owned the Congo and his administrators replyed direction to him not his Government (unlike with how Southern Nigeria was run). Add in how much effort he put into discrediting journalists that reported on the shit that he did in the Congo and he certainty knew what he was happening there and he certainly promoted it. Congo isn't the Americas, for the most part it was Europeans dying of Congolese diseases and not the other way around and given Portuguese contact with the Kingdom of Kongo for centuries any diseases would have penetrated centuries ago. Edit And that last attempt to excuse the killings is just ridiculous. "They were only doing actions that any idiot would see will leader to the death of millions, that wasn't ReAL MuRDer"
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  7. But she was a Khajirite
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  8.  @kuroazrem5376  Eh, Ibadi usually try and distance themselves from the rest of the Khajirites as they split off from the main group very early
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  9. It is basically the first country whose history is brought up as an example of a great African country. In a list of most under rated country's histories, it won't be there.
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  10. Huge over exaggeration
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