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Topic subjectFantastic book.
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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?
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>Seen by dozens of wearing personality frames in Looks like PBS
>did a documentary on it as opposed to reading that long ass
>book
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>http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/
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>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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