I’ll bless this thread with some Roman beauty:
Imagine the Romans brought the light of civilisation to our barbaric ancestors (via conquest); who knows, we could have built upon that Roman foundation & establish our own epic empire. Much like the British & Spanish Empires.
Rome was 70 million.
Somalis were like 100,000 if that.
Remember the Romans literally wiped out the celts who were the largest race in Europe. They ruled the British Isles, Spain & Portugal, France, much of the balkans and even bordered Greece and fought alexander the great.
Julius ceasar wrote a book about his 10 years in Gaul/France where he genocided and enslaved 2/3rd of Frances population. One of the largest genocides proportionally.
You may think it was just the times, but even in Rome people were disgusted by him and he wrote the book as a political propaganda to justify wiping out ancient France.
And Somalis had ancient city states during that time. We literally got rich by buying Indian goods and selling it to the Romans at a high markup. Same with the Ethiopians/Axumites who did the same thing. So much that they thought these goods originated from the horn of Africa.
The Nubians in Sudan did a great job fighting off the Romans and not bowing down like the Egyptians. Nubia defeated Rome during the reign of Augustus, one of its most powerful eras.
Thank god somalis were never conquered, we had a small situation for a couple decades due to the italians, French, British and Ethiopians ganging up on us and even then we fought bravely for decades.
That's why somalis have kept their language and culture mostly intact for ages. We rule the largest land of any ethnic group in sub saharan Africa. We could easily support a hundred million in Somaliweyn if we industrialise and build railways to transport food from agricultural areas. We have been blessed brother, don't let the last 30 years say otherwise.