The Aztecs, Inca, Maya etc were hardly primitive. The destruction of those cultures was a crime against humanity & major loss to us all. Spanish and Portuguese colonization has largely failed as is being exposed by the crisis in South America...
Natives gave the British tobacco and syphilis. Then they spread the smallpox by running from tribe to tribe. Primitive cultures stay primitive by killing everyone who questions dogma. The price of killing the intelligent is stagnation. History is full of catastrophes.https://twitter.com/TheRedFisher1/status/1159593344265179136 …
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They didn't even use the wheel.
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Exactly yet they acheived sophisticated civilisations, producing food surpluses to support large populations, literacy and megalithic architecture that utilised and used complex mathematics, artistry and engineering. Be quiet when U claim them to be primitive....
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I'm pretty sure they had the wheel...
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They didn't.
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I'm positive they did lol, I swore I've read about it over a year ago. They certainly knew how to draw one.. Wiki says they used it as a toy only though.pic.twitter.com/hXH6sKlt79
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They knew how to draw circle. Is very different than utilizing wheel.
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Mr. Molyneux, those you (and others in the past once) damned as "primitive" practiced agriculture and the Aztecs counted in base 20, developing complex mathematics far exceeding European contemporaries. Many also had knowledge of medicine.
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The spanyards brought everything you mention to central América.
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Why do you write In weirdly spaced prose?
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Stefan advocates for apparent progress, in the modern era 1/3 of all food is wasted a hallmark of Western culture - excess and waste at the detriment of the majority.....
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Why is this written like a haiku though?
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The First Nations of North America did not invade Great Britain. Worst false equivalency ever! Attempted Genocide by The Crown but tobacco...
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The natives knew more about anatomy and surgery than the invading Europeans. If anything, the Europeans were the primitive ones. Just building decent buildings and having good artillery does not make one advanced.
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Historians and anthropologists continously revise population estimates for the pre-Columbian New World upwards. Tens of millions of people lived in North and South America, many in large urban centers. The only advantages whites actually had were rooted in metallurgy and diseases
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As an example: at the time of its destruction, Aztec Tenochtitlan was described by its European conquerors larger than any city in Europe at the time by far. They were going through a renaissance at the time, producing achievements in engineering, astronomy, poetry, and morepic.twitter.com/iCHPbzPQX1
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Another example: researchers are increasingly coming to the conclusion that the Amazon rainforest is not natural, and is in fact anywhere from 8 to 100% manmade, and was filled with large and well organized towns and citieshttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/its-now-clear-that-ancient-humans-helped-enrich-the-amazon/518439/ …
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these are only 2 examples. i am not a scholar. others will have more. to say that these people lived in 'ignorance' is to ignore the achievements of tens if not hundreds of millions of people, most of which are fully lost to us because of the historical choices of people like you
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