How did ‘Eurocentrism’ assume the status of a Euro-North American theory of human history that privileges the Greek–Roman classical world as the cradle of human civilisation in the process overshadowing the reality of Africa as the certified cradle of humankind?

Timothy Gerber-Mellish

doi:10.13169/jglobfaul.6.1.0009

Abstract

How did ‘Eurocentrism’ assume the status of a Euro-North American theory of human history that privileges the Greek–Roman classical world as the cradle of human civilisation in the process overshadowing the reality of Africa as the certified cradle of humankind?

Highlights

History may be defined as the authenticated record of man’s activities and achievements
From the second half of the nineteenth century onward, the whole world history was rewritten around a false universalism based on the claim of European superiority
Like the authors quoted above, this paper will be unequivocal in its argument that ‘Europe’ and the topic of Eurocentrism is a false universalism, and is an invention, constructed by Europeans to further a political agenda

Summary

Introduction

History may be defined as the authenticated record of man’s activities and achievements. Like the authors quoted above, this paper will be unequivocal in its argument that ‘Europe’ and the topic of Eurocentrism is a false universalism, and is an invention, constructed by Europeans to further a political agenda.

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