I can answer that with a question: by "India", do you mean: "the Ganges and Indus valleys, and part of the Tibetan plateau", or do you mean the lines on a map?Michael said:Does India have Islamic culture or Indian culture?
I can answer that with a question: by "India", do you mean: "the Ganges and Indus valleys, and part of the Tibetan plateau", or do you mean the lines on a map?Michael said:Does India have Islamic culture or Indian culture?
In the sentence "The history of India begins with the Indus Valley Civilization, ....." from Wiki it starts out "The history of India....." - it's this India that I am referring to. I'm sure some of it is delineated by lines on a map and other parts are outside such boundary.I can answer that with a question: by "India", do you mean: "the Ganges and Indus valleys, and part of the Tibetan plateau", or do you mean the lines on a map?
Middle Easterner colonists.
Islamic culture? Does India have Islamic culture or Indian culture?
then I guess you answered your own question. What to call Persian and Egyptian scientists? Persian and EgyptianSo the Persian and Egyptian scientists were middle easterner colonists?
Yes, most were. We refer to scientists who live in America as American scientists not Xian Scientist.So are the Americas and Australias European colonists?
The last passport I looked with my pic in it did not say India I know what I think, I'm asking what you think.What do you think?
Perhaps if you are strictly speaking of the effects of Buddhism/Hindu on the larger or local culture.We refer to Hindu culture and Buddhist culture. Why don't you?
So the Persian and Egyptian scientists were middle easterner colonists?
It would appear that 100 year of Arab rule, some hundred years of Moorish and Mongolian rule and some 600-800 years of Ottoman rule still left behind enough natives to rule their own countries. Compared to that, the natives of the Americas and Australias were ethnically cleansed in the last 400 years. So are the Americas and Australias European colonists?
The Berbers are the current Morroccans. They were the Moorish invaders of Spain.
For Sudan, look up British divide and rule policy in Sudan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule
So you're saying that genocide is permissible against hunter gatherer societies?
Its okay to put them in reservations, kill them for land and impose your culture on them?
Please read some Berber history. A majority of Berbers [and hardly any Arabs] ruled Spain for 700 years.
As for Sudan, its what happens when you divide a society and destroy its stability. For other examples of British divide and rule, see India Pakistan, Sri Lanka [Buddhists vs Tamil], all the divisions [or countries] "created" in the Middle East.
How comforting I see you are taking the willfully ignorant path as I suspected. No I am saying the consequences of colonizing/conquering hunter gather societies without immunity to your diseases is much more devastating than doing the same to agrarian societies who have a similar immune system to you.
Are you saying it is fine to conquer/colonize people who are agrarian and immune to your diseases?
Hmm lets see, after 800 plus years of "Arab rule" we have Syrians in Syria, Lebanese in Lebanon, Persians in Iran and Indians in India.
Is that likely to be replicated in European colonies?
The arabs conquered the Berbers by force, not peace, and permanently tainted their culture thereafter just like you accuse the British of doing to others. If Britain's guilty of all the stupid crap still going on in southeast asia, then muslims are to blame for all the crap that went on in north Africa.
Then why is the Sudanese slaughter being done specifically in the name of islam? Why don't they dedicate the conquest to King George if it's all Britain's fault?
So lets see, the Arabs conquered the Berbers by force and tainted their culture, so that they went on to create the golden age for Jews in Spain, a movement that brought Europe out of the Dark Ages. Yes, you're right, its comparable to the British destruction of Indian culture.
Same reason the Buddhists are still fighting the Tamils in the name of Buddhist supremacism. They divided the people on the basis of ethnicity or religion. Whatever they used, it worked. Why do you think the Kashmir issue is, between India and Pakistan?