Comments by "Phoenix O\x27Brien" (@phoenixobrien163) on "During the nineteenth century, Britain stood alone in its fight against the slave trade" video.

  1.  @candy-le4nh  -- The usual spin machine from the crew of demon seeds. The poor benefitted from nothing. Only the rich benefitted.
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  2. Is there an issue with African art in museums now?
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  3.  @candy-le4nh  -- Show me where Britain enslaved people, Michael Myers.
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  4. The Hittites of Turnkey seems to be the first to work with iron, but this doesn't mean the surrounding countries didn't interact and learn from each other. The earliest known use of iron dates back to around 3000 BC – 2500 BC. One of the earliest evidence of smelted iron dates back to 2500 BC which was an iron knife found in a tomb in Anatolia, modern-Turkey. At the time they were called the Hittites. OTOH --- the Hittites of Turkey or Egypt? Archeologists believe that iron was discovered by the Hittites of ancient Egypt somewhere between 5000 and 3000 BCE. During this time, they hammered or pounded the metal to create tools and weapons. They found and extracted it from meteorites and used the ore to make spearheads, tools and other trinkets. Between 2000 BCE and 1200 BCE, the Hittites developed a process for smelting the iron – heating its ore to purify it – expanding its usability. For centuries, the production of iron remained a closely-held secret of the Hittite people until roughly 1000 BCE when Chinese metallurgists discovered the superiority and workability of iron. Who were the Hittites according to archaeology? As early as 1900 B.C.E., an Indo-European people began to settle in what is now Turkey. By the 16th century B.C.E., they were powerful enough to invade Babylon. Their might continued to expand until they were a superpower on the level with Egypt and Assyria. Relations with Egypt were particularly volatile and included the famous Battle of Kadesh and the eventual signing of the world’s oldest peace treaty.* The Hittite capital, Hattusa, has been excavated, revealing a formidable and religious empire. The article “The Hittites—Between Tradition and History” in the March/April 2016 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review examines what archaeology and the Bible say about the Hittites.
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  5. So in answer to your question, yes, I can see where Africans might well have learned iron smelting and made items from iron.
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  6.  @candy-le4nh  -- Who's justifying British slavery?
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  7. Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, together, produce nearly 60% of the world's cocoa each year, but latest estimates found 1.56 million children engaged in hazardous work on cocoa farms in these two countries.
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  8. How was Britain built on the slave trade?
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  9.  @LionClanChief  -- If the African art is on display, then it's appreciated. What bronzes are we talking about anyway? And where are they currently kept?
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  10. Britain alone fought against slavery? The North in the US did nothing?
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  11. Didn't the slave ships themselv4s come from British companies?
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  12. Their families need the money and send them out to work. As the chocolate industry has grown over the years, so has the demand for cheap cocoa. Most cocoa farmers earn less than $1 per day, an income below the extreme poverty line. As a result, they often resort to the use of child labor to keep their prices competitive.
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  13.  @mr.thegreat557  -- The Hittites, like Britain, also had a huge empire. Maybe that's why different countries are mentioned as being where the Hittites came from: The years the Hittite Empire covered: The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian (modern-day Turkey) people who formed an empire between 1600-1180 BCE. the Hittites established one of the great empires of the ancient Middle East. At its height, the empire encompassed central Turkey, north western Syria, and Upper Mesopotamia (north eastern Syria and northern Iraq). To make things more confusing, the Hittites also conquered the Babylonian Empire, which was famous for its Hanging Hardens, the Ishtar Gate, and the Tower of Babel: Modern chronology uses the sack of Babylon by a Hittite army in 1595 B.C. as the dividing line between the Old Babylonian (1894–1595 B.C.) and Middle Babylonian (1595–1155 B.C.) periods in southern Mesopotamia. And Babylon was the seat of the Tower of Babylon: What empire built the Tower of Babel? Centuries later, [NOTE: I did not look up "ceentures later from what. I did not look up the context] a new line of kings established a Neo-Babylonian Empire that spanned from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. During this period, Babylon became a city of beautiful architecture, including the Hanging Garden of Babylon, *the Ishtar Gate and the Tower of Babel. So, the Hittites conquered a lot. I never knew they got around so much.
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