America first settled by Chinese

Pippen points out that new research in China is showing not only that the Chinese have cultural roots going back more than a million years, but also that they have a civilization of at least ten thousand years – pre-dating the traditional period of five thousand years which was responsible for a massive migration of Chinese to the Americas.

"The Chinese assert that their nation is far superior and far older than others,” says Pippen. “"Their civilization -- not that of Sumer or Egypt -- was the first and that during the thriving and prosperous Tang Dynasty it was at the peak of the world, the center of world civilization, no other civilization compared to it."

“They claim that during their long history their people were the first migrants -- migrating throughout the Americas and the regions along the Pacific Rim -- becoming the Indian tribes in the Americas and the East Asian ethnic groups in the South Pacific."

“Looking at these people today in those areas,” says Pippen, “it is easy to see these ancient resemblances.”


Read more by Pippen on China:

Old and New China

the miraculous Chinese

three races, one perfect?

the wealthy Chinese exodus

fat figures of fun in China

alienated in China

China's Ancient Roots

are all immigrants voracious?

Dorcas has yet to meet an immigrant who isn't voracious and maintains that voracity is not necessarily a bad thing if you want to build a new nation -- like America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand -- but it's deadly for an established nation and led to the downfall of both the Roman and the British empires.

"At first it must have been novel for the indigenous Romans to have strange looking and speaking people making Rome their new home --new cuisine, fashion, ideas and cheap labor must have been a good thing," says Dorcas, “but over time, when more and more immigrants arrived, the indigenous Romans started to feel threatened."

"For starters, jobs for the poorer Romans disappeared -- it's always the working class that suffer first from immigration," sighs Dorcas, "but when native born immigrant children started strutting their stuff, demanding power and glory, the middle and higher classes of Romans started to suffer, too."

"In its imperial endeavors, the USA learned much from the mistakes of Rome and Britain," says Dorcas, "but being a nation built from scratch by voracious immigrants and tortured slaves it has a history to live down rather than live up to."

"Let's face it," says Dorcas, "Rome and Britain gave their empires as much, if not more, than they took -- think of roads and railways as well as citizenship -- and there was glory in what they did, definitely a history for present-day Italians and Brits to take pride in and look up to, even if they must suffer the indignity of being has-beens on the world stage – left with just the ruins of their past glories after voracious immigrants had moved in and taken over."

Read more by Dorcas on this issue:

social cohesion and survival

the empire strikes back

did roman citizenship cost the empire?

Let’s follow Japan on immigration

did the sumerians come from hungary?

The earliest truly urban civilization, predating the ancient Egyptians, emerged about 3200 BC in the Fertile Crescent between and around the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in ancient Mesopotamia (modern day southeastern Iraq). This civilization spawned a host of urban centers towards the Indus River valley -- from southeastern Iran to India and Pakistan -- trading commodities, technologies, architectures, and ideas.

Mesopotamia is a Greek word, literally meaning 'between the rivers', and the land was originally called Sumer by the Sumerian speaking people who settled there, possibly as early as 5000 BC or much earlier. Over time, the Sumer culture was followed by the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian cultures, and cities such as Uruk, Ur, Babylon, Nimrud, and Nineveh became immortalized.

The Sumer civilization produced the earliest writing (in cuneiform script on clay tablets), and some of the first sciences, mathematics, laws and philosophies of the world. The Sumerians developed extensive trade networks and structured social hierarchies -- sedentary and agricultural communities -- that gave birth to the first kingdoms and empires. They used a highly sophisticated system of irrigation and agriculture, taking full advantage of the waters of the two rivers, and established magnificent cities.

So, who were the Sumerians and where did they come from?

The first tablets of the ancient Sumerian language were re-discovered in the nineteenth century and deciphering them was very difficult because the language was unrelated to ancient Arabic, Assyrian, Canaanite, Egyptian, Indian, Jewish, Persian and Phoenician, and did not appear to be related to any language from contemporaneous African, Asian or European dialects.

However, there were significant similarities between the ancient Sumerian language and those of the Mongolian, Turkic, and Hungarian languages (Hungarian being a non Indo-European language) to make headway in the deciphering process.

Of the 53 characteristics of Sumerian grammar, there are 51 matching characteristics in the Hungarian language compared to only 29 in the Turkic languages, 24 in the Caucasian languages, 21 in the Uralic languages, 5 in the Semitic languages and 4 in the Indo-European languages.

That the grammatical structure of the Hungarian language was found to be the closest to that of the Sumerian language, gives rise to the belief that the first civilization in Sumer may have been developed by immigrants from Eastern Europe escaping from the Ice Age.

Tens of thousands of clay tablets and cylinder-seals exist containing Sumerian texts describing everything from taxation and administrative records to essays, literature and ethics on kingship, priesthood, the art of love making, kindness, song, the crafts of scribes, builders, leather makers, woodworkers, copper workers and beer makers. The Sumerians appear to have arrived in Mesopotamia with the attributes of civilization already formulated!

Fundamental to everything in the Sumerian civilization were the gods and goddesses whom the Sumerians called the Anunnaki -- those who came from heaven to earth -- and the Sumerian Family Tree differentiates between those Gods and Goddesses who were born on earth (the new generation) and those born in heaven according to their clashing personalities.

The Sumerian texts also describe the Epic of Creation -- on which Genesis is based --and when Abraham fled from Ur in Iraq to found the new religion of Judaism, he took all of the Sumerian ideas with him.

migration and civilizations

In that the remnants of our earliest ancestors - the Equatorial African tribes - remain living along the Congo River system between the Highlands of Cameroon and the East African mountain ranges and have not evolved very much over millions of years, physically or mentally, it is obvious that no sort of civilization could have evolved without migration.

But not just any migration to anywhere. No distinctly black African civilization evolved following the migration of our ancestors south, towards what is presently South Africa. Similarly, no distinctly black African civilization evolved following the migration of our ancestors northwest, towards what is presently Morocco (later Carthage being a Meditteranean rather than a black African nation city).

Although a civilization based in northeast Africa did evolve following the migration of our ancestors down the River Nile, towards what is presently Egypt, it did not emerge until 4000 BC by which time human beings were occupying every corner of the earth and it thus owed its existence more to its central location to all Mediterranean communities than to anything intrinsically African.

Migration, then, was a necessary precursor for the development of civilization in terms of providing a better gene pool for genius to shine, a better climate in which civilization could flourish and a never ending stream of workers. The most vibrant and lasting civilizations were all built and sustained by migrants.