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building cities over the face of the
world. He ruled in Mesopotamia, in the
area covering Iraq, Iran, and Turkey.
All the ancient traditions agree that
Nimrod was a black man, and that his
soldiers were Ethiopians and Azanians,
from what is now called East Africa.
Their descendants live in the region to
this day. He was said to have built Erech,
Elam, parts of Sumeria, Akkadia and
Babylon. The Mesopotamian kingdoms
of Sumeria, Babylon, Erech and Elam
which thrived in the regions where
modern Iraq covers today were thus
black civilizations.
Runoko Rashidi demonstrated that the
civilization of Sumer was founded by
Nile valley migrants from Africa.

The Sumerians called
themselves the black-headed
people and spoke a derivate of
Semitic language,
a language branch which rose
initially from Ethiopia.
Innumerable evidence from various
cranial, skeletal, archaeological,
sculptural and textual sources has
confirmed the racial origins of the
Sumerians as Nile valley Africans that
migrated to Mesopotamia.

According to Martin Bernal, the ancient
Greeks designated two populations of
black people with the name Ethiopia,
one approximated Elam, and one
pertained to a group which lived south
of Egypt. See Martin Bernal, David
Chioni Moore, Black Athena Writes Back
p.461.
Elam was a Kushite colony and its
heartland was Susa the capital of Elam.
Present day descendants of the ancient
Elamites still live in southern Iranian
province of Khuzestan, very dark in skin
colour. Between then and the rise of
Islam, different population demography
drifted in and out of the Mesopotamia
region wherein lies Basra.
Some of those population shifts had
political and demographic consequences
which bore different fortunes for the
black Iraqis, and Iranians of Basra and
Khuzestan respectively.

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