Why was Africa the only continent which didn't develop its own civilisation? Why did literally all subsaharan Africans remain simple hunter-gatherers until European contact?
They have all those natural resources. Why didn't they AT LEAST develop metalworking? Why did they only use simple flint tools until European contact?
Australia didn't either, Abos were always hunter gatherers without statelike entities that did not practise agriculture.
Samuel Gonzalez
Nordics are dumb
David Allen
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Levi Rivera
Can we at least tone the racism down during black history month?
Jordan Watson
DELET THAT PIC
Robert Butler
This, mediterranians were the smart ones.
Parker Peterson
Because the white men came and stole their accomplishments, enslaving them :^(
Landon Ward
FUG Ethiopia amirite? :D
Aaron Ward
>> They did, most of those civilizations were already in decline though by the time Europe showed up and knocked them down another peg.
Also recording history via oral tradition was a very bad choice.
Asher Hill
BOY YOU GOD
Hunter Cook
Same for Scandinavia 2bh
Nathaniel Wright
holy shit is no one going to reply to this? Sup Forums eternaly BTFO
James Lewis
we wuz med and shieet
Colton Hill
Don't be a Penisia.
Caleb Gonzalez
>Why did literally all subsaharan Africans remain simple hunter-gatherers until European contact?
Barely and I mean barely anyone h&g back then during first contact completely.
>They have all those natural resources. Why didn't they AT LEAST develop metalworking?
They did if you bother actually use Google. You have technological resources and books at your disposal why aren't you using those resources?
Charles Gutierrez
Where's green?
Gavin Peterson
whad dou yu miin ,?
Zachary Edwards
>not even ships holy hell
Grayson Nelson
I'm waiting for him. Yes.
Camden Edwards
honestly, they lived a simpler life and were probably a lot happier
Jonathan Anderson
t-romantic guy
Jacob Torres
it's full of niggers
Jordan Reed
>Why did literally all subsaharan Africans remain simple hunter-gatherers until European contact?
They didn't. Agriculture was independently discovered and widely practiced throughout many areas in Sub-Saharan Africa, and many complex political structures such as cities, kingdoms, and empires developed.
Isaiah Brown
>Why did literally all subsaharan Africans remain simple hunter-gatherers until European contact? Ethiopia and Nubia have had civilizations longer than us to be fair, even if they weren't that impressive.
Ryan Sullivan
West coast and somalia managed somewhat in places, even if it was shit
Subsaharan african "civilisations" were just awful, maybe because the xhosa and bantu africans are even more subhuman? Maybe because there is no motive to make civilisations or predisposition towards waiting and planning there when you have unlimited grassy plains and whatever you want if you run after it and stab it?
Zachary Torres
West Africa has very limited natural harbours due to lack of indentation.
Connor Walker
That's complete bs though user but nice try using audacity to make up for your posts lack of substance.
Joshua Lee
>white people claim they evolved better long term planning abilities >yet their welfare states are all racking up huge amounts of debt because of short sightedness
Logan Lee
well, since you asked about all of africa.. what are egypt and carthage?
Elijah Cruz
>all those overlapping lines >big empty spaces
I can't take this pseudointellectual shit seriously. They didn't into civilization becuase they nigged too much.
Andrew Myers
>Why didn't they AT LEAST develop metalworking?
They did though, some West African peoples even had a god of metal working
Justin Powell
They dumb lol
James Hill
Also Haya people probably had better steel than the rest of the world for centuries >They are believed to be some of the earliest inhabitants in the area to practice metal work which allowed them to create various new forms of pottery. >these furnaces were carbon-dated and were found to be as old as 2000 years. >Steel of similar quality did not appear in Europe until several centuries later. Look it up
Levi Hill
Because they're a bunch o fniggers barely a step above animals but not worth as much as one. Niggers can barely be considered human because of how much like animals they look. Look at Mesoamerica, that's complete isolation not having cradles of civilization to your east and north yet amerndians built better societies while not even having livestock animals or horses. Africans were the only ones to not domesticate the dog. Whats the excuses for this ?
>tl;dr niggers are subhuman
Hudson White
they did, much later than the rest of the world probably cuz they all lived tribes isolated from eachother and the rest of the world
better question is, why isn't the country Ghana in the same place as the kingdom Ghana was?
>t-they did something literally the whole world did but just decided to stop there, therefore they are smart nuhuh sweetie
Joseph Wood
Australian Aboriginals have most ancient cultural civilisation on Earth :^)
Christopher Sullivan
you americans suffer from blacks there that make you a nigger hater
Henry Cruz
name a one igbo scientist
Aiden Mitchell
Not possible due simply to the fact that they live in Australia.
Alexander Stewart
How come some manlet natives completely cut off from every civilization to ever exist did a better job then some africans close to great civs like egypt and Carthage
Aiden Nelson
Ha ha got him there!
Christian Ward
Name ONE white American inventor.
Nathan Gonzalez
Nikola Tesla and Henry Ford
Luis Russell
I dunno man, google turns up nothing when I search them.
Instead it asks me "Did you mean Lewis Howard Latimer?".
Those inventors you mentioned must be pretty fringe.
Aaron Miller
>Why was Africa the only continent which didn't develop its own civilisation? >what was mali >what was songhai >what were the zulu >what was FUCKING EGYPT
Julian Perez
>ALL European written languages are the direct descendants of Levantine writting system Very interesting.
Mason Brown
They did develope metalwork
Angel Rogers
> t. Jared M. Diamond
>Egypt Kek nice try
Joshua Carter
>implying they didn't learn the trade from colonial masters
William Lopez
Are you denying that Egypt is Africa or that it was civilized. Because it certainly is both even if not subsaharan line they did have a nubian king once
Jordan Moore
because everytime you have to cross a desert you end up smarter
>be a nigger >cross sahara >become arab >be an loo >cross gobi >become asian
Those Ife terracotta works date back up to 1000 AD so no
Hudson Diaz
Because being an "advanced civilisation" for the sole purpose of being an advanced civilisation is barely useless cause we all gonna die whatever how "smart" we are. African people (sorry for not using nigger), maybe just don't need our tech and i don't think that makes them less happy than us or something. We love to contemplate people that we think are less useful than us because for some biological reason we think that the circle of life is a giant dick contest.
Jackson Parker
We must cross space.
Jayden Ramirez
T. Heart of Darkness
Easton Brooks
It worth the read? Never heard about this book
Wyatt Morgan
Nigga they are starving to death and eating mud if they are happy like that they are literally dumb
Christian Cooper
>Belgian This comment made my fucking day.
Jace Bailey
Change nothing about what i said. Some EU people think that brazil people are useless shit and you think that african people are useless shit. We're all the nigger of someone else whatever we are.
Jackson Gray
We are tho, and i can guarantee you nobody here is happy like you fuckers love to say
Juan Powell
I've never learned to read that kind of books and i have a very little culture about the kind of stuff my "ancestors" did in africa, just some basic informations about congo
Dylan Parker
It's worth a read, or you can see a more modern American film version that's different in setting but, has very similar themes called Apocalypse Now
Justin Fisher
>Keep being angry on the internet Now I understand why you love to hate africa :^)
Kevin Martinez
Philip Emeagwali literally won the Gordon Bell Prize
Cameron Rodriguez
>on the internet youre just a retard that goes ''oh they are just happy'' while having everything and they have to fight to survive everyday
Evan Russell
you know what's funny? starvation in africa is mainly caused by colonization and not their lack of technology
they weren't nearly as hungry, had as many diseases or had this much war before euros kicked them out of the coast, turned them against each other and created their own geographical delimitations.
Eli Gray
I'll order the book tomorrow and whatch the movie this night, thanks
Lincoln Baker
I never said they're happy in an absolute way dumbass, i said that i think that they're not less happy than the rest of the world. And perhaps, i'm wrong, it happens
Ethan Long
I don't know who that is so it doesn't count
Ethan Scott
>The Jesuits were the first to bring cinchona to Europe. The Spanish were aware of the medicinal properties of cinchona bark by the 1570s or earlier: Nicolás Monardes (1571) and Juan Fragoso (1572) both described a tree that was subsequently identified as the cinchona tree and whose bark was used to produce a drink to treat diarrhea.
>Quinine also played a significant role in the colonization of Africa by Europeans. Quinine had been said to be the prime reason Africa ceased to be known as the "white man's grave".
Jason Johnson
Yeah im pretty sure they just die with joy when some crazy warlord come to eat their hearts, just like a swede when he gets back home from work
Adam Murphy
Dude you need to jack off or something. Calm yo tits
Jack Perez
Read the book "Guns, Germs and Steel". It's far from perfect but it gives a general overview of why some places developed faster then others.
The main thing about Africa is that its geography made technology and useful plants and animals spread much slower to it that it did to for example Europe.
Joshua Campbell
in historical context 'believed' basically means 'we have no proof'
Ian Williams
They did. Much of Africa was roughly at Iron Age or Medieval levels before Europe came in.
Gavin Jones
Europe's borders weren't the cleanest back in the Middle Ages either.
Elijah Martin
pretty sure swedes kill themselves more though
Luis Price
HOL DA FUK UP
Blake Phillips
tigers, lions, hippos
Brayden Sanchez
Read a book
People throughout the continent were agrarian. Even when the Bantu colonizers brought plant farming with them to South Africa the native Khoisan peoples already practiced goat herding.
Matthew Wood
There is a correlation to technological increase based on colder weather, there's been a few papers about it. Most super hot places on earth developed slowly.
Nathaniel James
Sources?
Carter Lopez
Maybe it's because those empires didn't exist all at the same time and the borders changed.
Amerindians weren't totally cut off. Mesoamerica had a higher population density than most of Africa at the time. Higher population density = more urbanization = more specialization of labor. Once they had agriculture for a sufficiently long amount of time, agriculture and civilization started to diffuse from mesoamerica. Agriculture and civilization also started in South America in Peru, look up Norte Chico.
And Africans did learn a lot from Egypt. Nubia copied a lot of culture from Egypt. Ethiopia also started developing way before the rest of sub Saharan Africa because they were close to the middle East.
Brandon Nguyen
If you bothered to look at the top of the image you'd notice that the map covers all the time from the Carthaginians trough the Umayyads
Do you have some notion that Europeans borders would look any cleaner and non-overlapping than African polities in the same time frame?
Tyler Harris
>In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. >Leonard Digges invented the theodolite in 1551.
Xavier Cooper
Civilization started in hot climates, see Egypt, Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, etc.