Question: We have looked at a number of civilizations beginning with the Sumerians and ending with the Arabs in the region we call the Middle East, covering Rome and Greece, Meso-America and South America, and touching on modernity in Africa - the bias and racism toward Africans and the genocide that followed. We have (as a species) grown from the primitive lifestyles of the Sumerians, yet we have also regressed to the engagement with genocide against our perceived enemies. I drew your attention to the views Europeans held toward Africans. Considering those points - how is that attitude different from the views and attitudes held by every culture we have looked at toward others who are not like them? Europeans were not the first to engage in genocide - the Romans wiped out Carthage and the culture and people all at once. So consider each culture and how it treated the 'other' - how different or the same were they. Examine and explain. And as you consider this - consider modernity - whatever you imagine or conjur up about events in the world - how do they compare or not with the past?