Sounds like anti white propaganda for me. Source?
Hygiene Thread
Carson Reyes
Cameron James
one of the first things the Spaniards did during the Reconquest was to destroy the Moorish baths (just as the Visigoths had destroyed the Roman ones). Even after that, suspicions remained: Moors who converted to Christianity were forbidden to bathe. During the Inquisition, one of the worst things that could be said about Jews as well as Moors was that they were ‘known to bathe.’ As Richard Ford noted, these attitudes were still current in the 19th century. He tells the story of the Spanish Duke of Frias, who visited an English lady for a fortnight and ‘never once troubled his basins and jugs [on his washstand in his bedroom]; he simply rubbed his face occasionally with the white of an egg.’ This, Ford assures us, was the only ablution used by Spanish ladies in the time of Philip IV, and apparently it was good enough for the Duke.
Imagine, then, the redolence of the conquistadores, after weeks of close confinement in a ship, on arrival in a hot country. To make the contrast between the Spaniards and Aztecs even more stark, the Aztecs, being originally Asian, had many fewer merocrine glands than Westerners, and those are the glands that produce sweat. Asians will tell you that even a very clean Westerner smells strong to an Asian nose, so the fragrance of the unwashed conquistadores must have been ... impressive if not downright disgusting to the Aztecs. Small wonder that they responded by fumigating the Spaniards with incense as they approached. The Spaniards took it as an honour, but for the Aztecs it was a practical necessity...
Nathaniel Reyes
Id heard about twice a year but twice in a life for fear of water? People have to come into contact with water one way or another.
Jayden Carter
>the Visigoths destroyed the Roman baths
The wealthier visigoths even went so far as to build their own private baths. They may not have been as common as before (the fall of the Empire left the region in a bad shape economically and private baths are expensive), but I have never read about them actually destroying baths.
Benjamin Cruz
In central africa they preformed c sections with such skill it baffled the Europeans
Also small pox inoculation was well known in West Africa that and cataract removal
en.m.wikipedia.org
Jeremiah Ward
European travelers in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Uganda and Rwanda) during the 19th century observed Caesarean sections being performed on a regular basis. The expectant mother was normally anesthetized with banana wine, and herbal mixtures were used to encourage healing. From the well-developed nature of the procedures employed, European observers concluded that they had been employed for some time.[65]
Thomas Collins
That's because it's not real, he's posting gibberish from an Aztec Nationalist Children's page. Said claims are uncited.
Robert Martinez
West Africa
The knowledge of inoculating oneself against smallpox seems to have been known to West Africans, more specifically the Akan. A slave named Onesimus explained the inoculation procedure to Cotton Mather during the 18th century; he reported to have gotten the knowledge from Africa.[55]
The Sahel Edit
In Djenné the mosquito was identified to be the cause of malaria, and the removal of cataracts was a common surgical procedure.[56]
The dangers of tobacco smoking were known to African Muslim scholars, based on Timbuktu manuscripts.[57]
Liam Sanders
An account by the 12th century chronicler Usama ibn Munqidh;
"I heard a similar case from a bath attendant called Salim from Ma'arra, who worked in one of my fathers bathhouses. This is his tale:
I earned my living in Ma'arra by opening a bathhouse. One day a Frankish knight came in. They do not follow our custom of wearing a cloth around their waist while they are at the baths, and this fellow put his hand, snatched off my loin-cloth and threw it away. He saw at once that I had just recently shaved my pubic hair.
'Salim!' he exclaimed! I came toward him and he pointed to that part of me.
'Salim! You shall certainly do the same for me!' and he lay down flat on his back. His "hair" was as long as his beard. I shaved him, and when he had felt the place with his hand and found it agreeably smooth, he said: 'Salim, you must certainly do the same for my Dama'. In their language Dama means lady, or wife. He sent his valet to fetch his wife, and when they arrived and the valet brought her in, she lay down on her back and he said to me:
'Do to her what you did to me.' So I shaved her pubic hair, while her husband stood. Then he thanked me and paid me for my services
Chase Barnes
>being this asshurt