Where do you think Somalis would be today? Maybe Tanzania?

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Where do you think Somalis would be today? Maybe Tanzania?

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If the world wasn't introduced to modern weaponry so soon, where do you think the Somali nomads would be today? With such explosive weapons in every nations inventory, it makes it harder for us to wage war without enduring severe casualties.

Do you think we would've kept going and pushing the Ethiopians farther west?

Maybe we would've conquered the Bantus to the south where we would be drinking grapefruit in Nairobi?

So the question is, if the world was still using basic weapons such as muskets, how far do you think we could've conquered?

Discuss.
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Re: Where do you think Somalis would be today? Maybe Tanzania?

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we would build a boat put allour camels on it and livestock

head for australia
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Re: Where do you think Somalis would be today? Maybe Tanzania?

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Somalis can't build anything.
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Re: Where do you think Somalis would be today? Maybe Tanzania?

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The nomads from the central would have came down all the way to the Shabelle river then start a war over that which they would probably still be fighting over today :D
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Re: Where do you think Somalis would be today? Maybe Tanzania?

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Shirib,

I'm guessing that's sarcasm coming from you cause your predictions have already happened.
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Re: Where do you think Somalis would be today? Maybe Tanzania?

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Awe wrote:Shirib,

I'm guessing that's sarcasm coming from you cause your predictions have already happened.
Yea, I was being sacastic.

If the Somali were united, we could surely have destroyed Abyssinia and taken over that. I would say south all the way to Mombasa.

We don't have enough man power to go farther than that
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The reason our population is much smaller than that of the Xabesha is because they were farmers. The nomadic life leads to a low child mortality rate.

Even if we didn't have the man power, look at our land and our population, it's unbalanced. Personally, I believe we'd be near Addis and Nairobi.
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Re: Where do you think Somalis would be today? Maybe Tanzania?

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We are no stupid nomads. Thank you very much.

But yea being a nomad is what makes u get so much land like that. A person is never settled anywhere for long and are moving around.
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Re: Where do you think Somalis would be today? Maybe Tanzania?

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Reer Xassan (Marexaan) would reach Allah knows where if the colonial powers didn't stop them. They expanded the farthest of any Somali group as they inhabit South Western Eithiopia
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Murax wrote:Reer Xassan (Marexaan) would reach Allah knows where if the colonial powers didn't stop them. They expanded the farthest of any Somali group as they inhabit South Western Eithiopia
warya reer xasan would be chilling in south Africa creating a SADE empire 8)
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Re: Where do you think Somalis would be today? Maybe Tanzania?

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Murax wrote:Reer Xassan (Marexaan) would reach Allah knows where if the colonial powers didn't stop them. They expanded the farthest of any Somali group as they inhabit South Western Eithiopia
Murax,

That title goes to the Ogaden who cross the Tana river in Kenya.
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Re: Where do you think Somalis would be today? Maybe Tanzania?

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Abdiwaab, you as a Sacad may now know, but there is such thing as recorded history. :up:

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"To the east the Somalis were once more on the move. After 1850 one of the Darod Somali groups, the Marehan crossed the Juba in force. In 1865 they went on to break the Tana Galla and by 1880 had turned on the Boran. Pagan peoples in this region were now being dominated by Muslims, and peasants by nomads from the north."
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