Why was africa a backwater continent throughout its history?
Why was africa a backwater continent throughout its history?
Jeremiah Collins
Angel Powell
it was the birthplace of the human race user, pretty sure it wasn't a backwater then.
Logan Barnes
That means nothing.
Jason Barnes
Yeah and when the humanity left Africa, it became a shithole.
Parker Murphy
A huge inhospitable desert separating most of it from the rest of the world may have had something to do with it.
Camden Jackson
What about the Central American civilizations?
Evan Ortiz
And a giant Jungle which to this day parts of haven't even been explored. It's a miracle anyone could make a civilization there..
Matthew Reyes
They were even more primitive shitholes.
Matthew Lee
The Aztec pyramids were far more impressive than anything that the Mali Empire had to offer.
Christian Richardson
Low IQ of Negroes.
Matthew Martinez
>/his will unironically deny this
Brayden Scott
Lack of navigable waterways.
Brody Wright
Aren't American Natives supposed to be inferior races too based on this logic? Why did they build civilizations then?
Fuck off, IQ is a social construct
Chase Watson
Who said anything about an inferior race?
Jaxson Lee
They were far more impressive than anything in Europe at the time, your point?
>Stacking a shit ton of rock for your chimpout sessions isn't an indicator of advancements
Angel Diaz
Injuns are pretty smart. Just got destroyed by diseases and lack of experience with firewater.
Jackson Wright
pic related
this thread is bait, OP has legit autism and has been spamming it every day on Veeky Forums with minor alterations to avoid being banned for almost a year, just post this pic which is the succinct infallible rebuttal and don't reply
Kayden Long
Cherry picking, cultural determinism, and hardcore wewuzzing by self described white history undergrads teeming with undeserved pride.
Gavin Thomas
>IQ is a social construct
en.wikipedia.org
American Natives have on average higher IQ than negroes. That explain their civilizations despite being isolated from the rest of the world.
Gabriel James
Lmao
Jayden Jenkins
>Sahara Desert stopped the flow of Greco-Roman culture to most of the continent
>Coastlines in general made for terrible harbors (too many beaches)
>Rivers had too many waterfalls, so transport of goods and people was hard
>Continent is fucking huge so too many regions, climates, cultures and languages
Chase Garcia
When will this meme die?
Noah White
>Muh heat and humidity
>Muh climate
t. Mr. Diamond
Evan Jones
>This one tower from Ethiopia proves than the ENTIRE continent wasn’t backwater.
Dominic Thomas
You can't kill the truth.
Liam Scott
Jayden Long
Asia has all of the same problems but it didn’t stop them from developing a civilization.
Eli Martinez
*that
Evan Reyes
And it's from Ethiopia. That's very different from the ooga booga subsaharan cultures.
Jayden Stewart
Andrew Jackson
>That's very different from the ooga booga subsaharan cultures.
Tyler Harris
It has literally none of those problems you pleb
Luis Campbell
The MAIN factor is: subsaharan africans have on average lower IQs and higher time preferences compared to Asians, Europeans, Northern Africans etc.
Gabriel Baker
Andrew Powell
>Giant dick shaped obelisk
Awesome.
Angel Young
You can keep spamming these pics all you want. But that still doesn’t change the fact that 85% of the continent was still stuck in the Neolithic period.
Matthew Sanchez
And everybody knows that. We don't talk for social and political reasons.
Andrew Edwards
>The denial
Liam Ramirez
Literally what? This was Asia
>Yellow, Yangtze, Mekong, Ganges, Indus, Tigris, Euphrates river valleys with shitloads of high quality soil for irrigation
>Great Eurasian Steppe was a literal highway for trade and movement of peoples with large rideable beasts teaming among it's grasses (Imagine if cars roamed plains of gasoline ffs)
>So many ports it created the biggest maritime trade network in history (Indian ocean trade dwarfed Atlantic trade even to this day)
You could argue the huge continent part but most of it is flat where as Africa is very rugged and high in altitude. Places like SEA which had dense rain forest were close enough to places like China that the advancements diffused.
Luis Nguyen
>subsaharan africans have on average lower IQs
There is no evidence for this. Charles Murray's research is literally funded by pro eugenics white nationalist orgs and Richard Lynn's numbers have been repeatedly exposed as fraudulent .
Juan Adams
All psychometrics research published shows that blacks have lower IQ.
Where is the data that contradicts it?
Aaron Perry
Every region was about as developed as one would think given the environment and access to outside influence.
Isaiah Williams
>Charles Murray's research is literally funded by pro eugenics white nationalist orgs
And all school reports and education statistics are funded by cultural marxists. We have a draw.
Joshua Butler
>iron tools used throughout the continent
>neolithic
thinking
Josiah Thomas
Horseshit
Luke Kelly
Adrian Perez
Brody Allen
Liam Thomas
en.m.wikipedia.org
West Africa. The Iron industry, in both smelting and forging for tools and weapons, appeared in Sub-Saharan Africa by 1200 BCE,
Connor Watson
Show me something that proves a genetic explanation that isn't by a right-winger or politically motivated research.
When you look at Nigerians in the US and U.K, they are some of the highest achievers and more educated.
Selection doesn't explain it because immigration isn't anywhere near that selective to explain these results. If people like Lynn were correct, this level of achievement should be possible.
Bentley Gomez
Nok Culture
Zachary Turner
*this level of achievement shouldn't be possible
Jeremiah Hall
Chase Wood
Isaac Gonzalez
ITT: poltards get destroyed yet again
Hudson Wright
Debatable, and that sword surely wasn't made in 1200 bc
Jacob Sanders
Bantu expansion stupid
Landon Torres
It's still iron working afrom pagan Nigeria
Joseph Bailey
No one said that
Nathaniel Bailey
It's a medieval african swords
Isaiah Reed
Cogolese iron exicution blade
Ryan Hernandez
Julian King
Theirs also like only major river valley the Niger were west african civilizations formed
Austin Lewis
You know that graph proves nothing right ?
Cameron Lee
Just posting that doesn't really say anything
These empires we're formed by sonnike mande and niger-congo speakers
Parker Anderson
The sahelian empires we're formed through dominating the Saharan trade
Jacob Mitchell
It's a very curious phenomenon how American Blacks can't accept their past. I never saw indians here in Brazil inventing stories about their "empires", "states" etc.
Julian Russell
Tichitt and djenne predate Arab contact also Europeans had far more Arabic Contact
Noah Flores
Brandon Price
Zimbabwe
Josiah Parker
Ruins of khami City
Matthew Watson
These aren't fake
Joseph Watson
You saying it's not true don't make it false
Grayson Williams
Eli Sanchez
You know there's recorded history of these empires and states right?
Mali was even on European maps like the Catalan atlas
Gabriel Butler
Jewish lies
Jason Lee
Google Bantu expansion
Ayden Myers
The didn't even get to the iron age
Adrian Gutierrez
Wyatt Thomas
Yeah, and an ape banging rocks used to be the most advanced thing on the planet. Great job staying the same for hundreds of thousands of years.
Kayden Thomas
How is a Jewish lie?
Brody Rogers
Lol what? So your explanation for African achievement (Pure nigerian who are not admixed no less!) is that Marxists are rigging the scores? This level of denial...
Wyatt Rivera
Adam Perry
Written by Spanish scholars
Mason Williams
Can you point to the time when Africa was the most developed? Because I'm pretty sure it was during the banging of rocks times.
Elijah Butler
Doesn't have to be to prove my point development is linear the world isn't a game of civs
Liam Ward
As for selection among African immigrants, it is obvious and enormous. To use Nigerian immigrants to the US as an example, 58.6% have college degrees and 28.3% had graduate degrees. Among Nigerians as a whole, less than 10% have college degrees. The immigrants are therefore a highly non-representative selection of the Nigerian population.
Josiah Long
You could say the same about indian migrants
Parker Davis
>plus countless post in this thread
You're samefagging in multiple threads for several days now. Why? I guess negligence of African history really pisses you of but face it, 20 years of a devoted Illyrian autist implementing one time system had more influence on the world and was far more interesting than the entirety of African history, the only reason we even know about this was that arabs were at least kind enough to write about them.
Noah White
So why do Richard Lynns numbers correlate with PISA scores so well if they were completely fabricated? It would be quite the coincidence if he could predict PISA scores by pure guesses.
>The general correpondence of means of educational IQ, PISA IQ and
Lynn-Vanhanen IQ should not be a complete surprise. Rindermann (2007)
had already found a correlation of .78 across countries between mean IQ and
educational level of young adults, operationalized by an index composed of
three measures: 1. adult literacy rate 1991; 2. percentage of persons between
12 and 19 years old 1960 – 1985, having graduated from secondary school;
and 3. the mean of years of schooling of persons 25 years or older for 1990,
1995 and 2000.
Generally, the differences between Lynn-Vanhanen IQ, PISA IQ and
Educational IQ do not exceed plus or minus two points. Whereas LynnVanhanen
IQ is based on IQ-tested samples (in some countries even on a
single, small and local sample), and PISA IQ is based on large and
representative samples of schoolchildren, Educational IQ is based on data of
the total adult population. Data on educational attainment, scaled as
Educational IQ, and PISA results do confirm, in most cases within the limits
of measurement error, the results of a century of IQ testing, summarized by
Lynn and Vanhanen (2002, 2006). Whoever active in the field of
educational economy had everimagined such a possibility?
Benjamin Fisher
Well Indians on average are better educated and of higher average intelligence so no, you cant.
Isaac Stewart
>When you look at Nigerians in the US and U.K, they are some of the highest achievers and more educated.
>Selection doesn't explain it
Of course it does. Also you do see a more important regression to the mean among african immigrants than, say, indians.
Angel Clark
Let's say the average IQ in Nigeria is 85. That means theres around 30 million Nigerians with IQ >100. Plenty of room for the obvious selection that's taking place.
Camden Thomas
Most Indians aren't educated well educated only the very wealthy can afford to send thier kids over seas also half the country dose not use tiolets
Carson Young
The average india I is 82
Jaxson Reyes
You do realize that you didnt build any of those? The empires that captured you from the jungle and sold you off to slavery did.
Josiah Cook
That's only if you lump all african migrants together Somalians are different from Nigerians
Angel Johnson
UK and US Nigerian Americans are at least 100. Racialists think that pure blacks are what, 65-70? The selection effect would have to be so extreme, you're entering fantasy territory.
It also doesn't help that Nigerians are closest genetically to pure blacks and also that there hasn't been a correlation found at all between IQ and white admixture.
Jaxon Nelson
No, I'm talking about Nigerians specifically. Second generation nigerians in the USA don't do out of the ordinary well, althought they do better than american blacks.
Bentley Cruz
They did every historical account says so ruled by black kings Sudanic africa means land of the blacks