Quote (Goomshill @ Feb 21 2018 11:40pm)
If it wasn't colonised and slaves weren't taken and it was left to develop internally without the benefits of cultural exchanges like europe/asia had, then they'd all be living in mud huts right now. The memes true at least
Its the same deal with native americans above the mesoamerican line and aboriginals. Human cultural development happened in a very short span of biological history, we are about 100 generations removed from the bronze age and now we fly spaceships, but homo erectus diverged about 70000 generations ago. Mediterranean and asian cultures had the benefits of thousands of years of cultural upheavals and exchanges to rapidly civilize, while sub-saharan africa and other more isolated cultures lagged far behind in development.
When the american indians were building cliff palace in mesa verde, thomas aquinas was penning Summa Theologiae at Orvieto. Granted as far as that comparison goes the cathedral didn't go up for another hundred years, but Cologne was "contemporary" so let me cite that
I agree to some extent, but there were isolated cultures that did pretty well. Mongolia conquered 1/3rd of the globe's land mass as nomads and hardly any outside interaction. Japan had a policy of sakoku for hundreds of years and were still a powerful nation.
Quote (Sakuraba @ Feb 21 2018 11:57pm)
you could provide alien technology to every african to fulfill their every need in an instant, they'd still shit in the streets and the pic below would still be the everyday norm
https://i.imgur.com/Kgxy3b9.pngLol'd. I knew about the ritual killing of albinos in countries like Tanzania, but killing bald people for gold is a new encounter.