13141479, Fantastic book. Posted by TheAlbionist, Wed Apr-05-17 04:34 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) >
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