Bannedbytomorrow wrote:Seangoli wrote:
You uh... do not know anything about pre-colonial history of Africa, then.
Also, the Aboriginals lived cut off from the entirety of the world for tens pf thousands of years, and were living in one of the most marginal environments in earth. Equally, if we put you into the Australian outback, you wouldnt be able to tell your dick from the ground after a day and would be begging for help in short order as you die a slow, horrible death dehydration and starbation. Meanwhile, the Australian Aboriginals have existed in the area for 40,000 years. So tell who is the idiot there? Simply put, the form of culiture Europeans ascribed to would ne a death knell in the ecosystems that Aboroginals survived in.
Europe probably wasn't much better, considering that, since humans originated in East Africa, that they would be woefully unprepared for the freezing cold winters and massive forests. However, the Europeans did fine, so why didn't the Australians progress the way the Europeans did?
The fucking Holocene happened. The conditions in Europe follow the Pleistocene were relatively stable and temperate. There is a damn food readon why agricultire didnt arise prior to aboit 6,000 years ago. Agricultire allows sedentism and surplus of foods to ne stored. Surpluses of foods and sedentism allows you to develop and encode things such as writing. Do yoi know what Europe was like 10,000 years ago? Exactly the fucking same as everywhere else. Do yoi also know what Australia didnt get following the Holocene? A temperate, stable climate. It is a giant desert encircled by a thin strip of jungle along the coasts. Not only that, but the aorts of sedentry lifestyle lived by Europeans would be suicidal in Australia in pre Modern times. One of the reasons they never developed doen that path is because it would have been fucking stupid to do so.
Not only that, but Europe didnt develop in a vacuum. A lot of what we consider European was developed elswhere and adopted ny them. Mathematics, literature, writing, astronomy, medicine, architecture, metallurgy, and countless other concepts were developef through out the world apart from Europe. Australia did mot have that luxury in the least.