ABSTRACT
Besides overlooking the slave-based nature of Greek "democracy," the ad posits history as "beginning" in Greece; a Eurocentric misnomer, since world history has no single point of origin, although some physical anthropologists speculate that the first human being was African and a woman.2 Even during the classical period, history was played out around the globe, in China, in the Indus Valley, in Mesopotamia, in Africa, in what we now call the Americas, and indeed wherever there were human beings. Rather than the "Age" of Antiquity, as Samir Amin suggests, we should speak of the "Ages" of Antiquity. The Americas are dotted with antique ruins, with the pyramids and acropolises of Meso-America and "Turtle Island," but Eurocentric education rarely calls attention to them. Who tells us that Peruvian monumental architecture existed before Stonehenge? Or that when ancient Greece was falling under Roman hegemony, the Native American Adena culture had been flourishing for over 1,000 years?3
