Quote Originally Posted by Hermod View Post
Old Louie must have slept through World History class in high school. For all but the last five hundred years, the Europeans were bottled up in a tiny and unprofitable corner of the world constantly being subject to slave raids from Africa and Asia. It was only with the discovery of long distance sea navigation and ship building that Europeans became a real force in the world. Up until 1500 or so, more slaves went from Europe to Africa than went from Africa to Europe. A lot of the towns on the Mediterranean coastline were virtually depopulated both from the raids and from people moving inland because of the threat of the slave raids from Africa.
Now THIS is some revisionist history. Apparently this explains all the blonde Germans in the Congo; they were apparently brought as slaves prior to 1500, duh.