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Is that serious? Behind the technology curve is a massive understatement. They were thousands of years behind in nearly every area of development.
by dinkumthinkum 4y ago
Is that serious? Behind the technology curve is a massive understatement. They were thousands of years behind in nearly every area of development.
- selfmodruntime 4y agoI wonder if the massive riches of nature they had for a low amount of people played a role in this
- eternalban 4y agoI think Yuval Noah Harari would agree with you. You may find his book Sapiens of interest. - The point you raise touches directly on the essence of my original comment (which should have been clearer): When we think of the value-system matrix of the 3 co-evolving continents of Europe, Africa, and Asia, the core commonality that is specially distinct from the value-system matrix that evolved in Americas is in regards to notions of property and nature 'husbandry'. Any vanguard explorers from the Eurasian civilisational matrix would bring with them the entirely alien notions of property and systemic cultivation of nature, and that would inevitably result in a confrontation of value systems, in which the technologically superior side would dominate.