I agree with the above, just don't get one thing. The people of Central Africa were living there for centuries and they weren't always oppressed. It's not like they were slaves for 2000 years deprived of any forms of knowledge. Did they never have the need for a better life?
Vikings were building boats to sail the seas and pillage new lands. They learned to use the stars to navigate, learned to craft weapons and armor, tactics in battle.
Europeans learned to make incredible buildings out of stone. Giant cathedrals, castles on top of mountains and steam ships that could circle the earth. It took hundreds of years, but they were evolving, making new things, inventing. Why didn't black tribes of Africa try that? They had their inventions: used bows, blow darts, poison, drugs, but not much beyond that. Was the tradition so important to them or were they just lazy, afraid of changes?
Well, if you would move a little north, you wouldn't be so disappointed
Arabs were the Masters of that age, as far as technological advancement. You are conflating tribal cultures, which have no desire to change, with industrialized cultures that are adopting technologies for societal effeciency. When you didn't grow up with capitalism, you find that living and being happy is enough
Clothes, cellphones, TV, all that shit is quite optional. I envy someone that can wake up, look out at their environment, and know that as long as the trees grow and the birds call, everything will be OK. A tribal state is man's natural state, don't denigrate a people because you don't agree with the way they choose to live and be happy
actually, I dont have time for this shit, educate your damned self. Dont feel like all the formatting.
In 295 BC, the Library of Alexandria was founded in Egypt. It was considered the largest library in the classical world.Vikings and books? Not so much
Hadn't developed runes yet.
A stone circle located in the Nabta Playa basin may be one of the world's oldest known archeoastronomical devices. Built by the ancient Nubians about 4800 BCE, the device may have approximately marked the summer solstice.Dumb ass dindus, inventing astronomy and shit
Ancient Egyptian weaponry include bows and arrow, maces, clubs, scimitars, swords, shields, and knives. Body armor was made of bands of leathers and sometimes laid with scales of copper. Horse-drawn chariots were used to deliver archers into the battle field. Weapons were initially made with stone, wood, and copper, later bronze, and later iron.Did the Vikings have calvary? Let me check Google.
Interesting, it's saying no here. I guess you'd need cities to have stables, and not be at war all the time.
The richest man in the world was African. Serious shit. Like, is still the richest, statistically, even in this corporate age. That says alot to me.
African King Musa Keita I is thought to be the richest person of all time — "richer than anyone could describe," reports Time.
Literally. His fortune was incomprehensible, Time's Jacob Davidson writes: "There's really no way to put an accurate number on his wealth."
He ruled the Mali Empire in the 14th century and his land was laden with lucrative natural resources, most notably gold.
The rest of the world caught wind of his great fortune in 1324, when he made the nearly 4,000 mile pilgrimage to Mecca. He didn't do it on the cheap.
On his stop in Cairo, he spent so much gold and donated so much money to the poor that he caused mass inflation! It would take years for the city to fully recover from the currency crisis.This motherfucker made it rain so hard he broke the fucking economy. I don't need to follow that up with wit.
And I'm not saying this to shit on Vikings. What I did there was pure rhetoric (the Arab shit is facta however). Im comparing different things. A warrior society vs an entrenched agrarian (sp?) society. They are a proud people that have held their place in our history, a unique, beautiful culture. But don't get shit twisted, they weren't the pinnacle of technology. I won't even enumerate the contributions Asia and South America have made to our global pursuit of knowledge and technology. I just wanted to knock that nationalism down a few notches
But I say all that, to say this and shut this silly as thread down..
Africa is the cradle of civilization. You do understand, all my bigoted friends, that we all came from the same place, Africa?
You and I are brothers, Mr. Yu. This is why I started off our conversation by establishing your superiority
Separated by time and space, culture and history, but brothers none the less.
Let's be niggers together
welcome to the human race, the only one that matters.
And I'm telling Mom you are racist.