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13140901, Guns Germs Steel might be the book on you on this point
Posted by BigReg, Tue Apr-04-17 09:02 AM
>How come Europe were able to overtake and transport so many >slaves from Africa in ancient times? What in history brought >about the advanced developments in weaponry or whatever that >caused these caucasian intruders to be able to carry out such >horrible deeds for close to one thousand years?


Seen by dozens of wearing personality frames in Looks like PBS did a documentary on it as opposed to reading that long ass book

http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/


Long story short (did I say the book was needlessly long) harsher climate/less resources forced Europe to push forward warlike tech and see natural resources as the ultimate commodity since they had none. That said, and Buddy discusses above, don't sleep on Ancient african cilvizations...the big leap forward happened during the middle ages into the industrial era when shit really got real environment wise for the so called white man (c) with "Germs" totally upending their way of life and the leap forwards in war tech (the "Guns" and "Steel" part)