Why were the Europeans impressed by Benin city when they found it
Why were the Europeans impressed by Benin city when they found it
Lucas Foster
Levi Gutierrez
because it had been all mud huts and stick city walls up until that point
Leo Nelson
No not really many West African cultures had complex buildings like Kano Kumasi njimi Timbuktu djado and other cities
Parker Williams
I think it.was their bronze work
Wyatt Myers
Maybe because they thought it was neat?
Sebastian Cooper
My parents were impressed by my artwork as a child. Not that it was objectively good in anyway.
Hudson White
they were just being nice
Austin Campbell
>Degrading your creativity just to appease the idea that Europeans cannot possibly be impressed by African cities
Jaxon Gutierrez
That's like the 50th time I've seen the screenshot. Might I have a source?
Also Europeans were also impressed by whole cities made of gold in the Americas... which didn't exist.
David Price
t. Mad
Parker Parker
They were willing to go all the way to just get these Benin artwork
Isaac Martinez
But Benin did exist
Here's a box depicting a house
Christopher Watson
Pretty sure that it was the metal working they had their ivory and pepper
Christian James
>Lisbon
>Madrid
>Florence
A collection of mud huts must be impressive indeed if you've lived all your life in a Latin shithole
Hunter Young
We're the Latin countries really that bad?
Landon Sanders
No, the British annexed Benin out of vengeance and shipped a load of the bronzes/sculptures off for ethnographic purposes
Noah Perez
They traded with the Portuguese and made ivory carvings for them the Portuguese would either show them an object or describe the object to them for carving
Tyler Garcia
The bronze were also commissioned that and used as a method of record keeping
Oliver Rogers
>British annexed Benin out of Vengeance
Annexed? Lol they fucked it so hard it got quadriplegic paralysis from the sheer assfuck.
Jayden Richardson
>many West African cultures had complex buildings
such as?
Kano isn't complex
Joseph Taylor
>longhouse
O fugg benin was vikangz!
Landon Perez
Lucas Stewart
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