Caesarmagnus
Ad Honorem
- Jan 2015
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- Australia
I also don't like the thread title.
That said, people do need to be objective in assessing the state of development in sub-Saharan Africa pre-colonisation, which hadn't even reached the levels of development Europe had over 2000 years earlier (during, say, the Roman Empire). That is not a racial point though, I don't doubt it's due to various environmental and circumstantial factors. We had another thread on this point though.
A lot of people underrate Africa's development pre-colonisation, but a lot of people here really overrate it too. It was way behind Europe's developmental curb (and the development curve of the middle east, large chunks of Asia, and to a lesser extent South America).
That said, people do need to be objective in assessing the state of development in sub-Saharan Africa pre-colonisation, which hadn't even reached the levels of development Europe had over 2000 years earlier (during, say, the Roman Empire). That is not a racial point though, I don't doubt it's due to various environmental and circumstantial factors. We had another thread on this point though.
A lot of people underrate Africa's development pre-colonisation, but a lot of people here really overrate it too. It was way behind Europe's developmental curb (and the development curve of the middle east, large chunks of Asia, and to a lesser extent South America).