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History of sub-Saharan Africa
Posted on 5/14/23 at 3:16 am
Posted on 5/14/23 at 3:16 am
Why does sub-Saharan Africa seem to have such little history of note?
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Posted on 5/14/23 at 3:21 am to UFFan
Hard to have much history when your civilization is still mostly hunter gatherer tribes with at most Bronze Age, and oftentimes Stone Age technology.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 3:21 am to UFFan
Have you not seen the ghost and the darkness bro
Val Kilmer killed it
Val Kilmer killed it
This post was edited on 5/14/23 at 3:22 am
Posted on 5/14/23 at 4:08 am to UFFan
We wuz Kangz
Posted on 5/14/23 at 4:09 am to UFFan
Plenty of history.
Just not recorded.
Just not recorded.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 4:16 am to UFFan
The actual evolutionary birthplace of humans and yet so far removed from modernity.
Things that make you go hmmmmm...
Things that make you go hmmmmm...
Posted on 5/14/23 at 4:16 am to wallowinit
quote:History is the record of events. If there is no record, that would be prehistory or prehistoric.
Plenty of history.
Just not recorded.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 4:19 am to DamnGood86
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History is the record of events
Not by all definitions. That's just the definition of "written history".
Posted on 5/14/23 at 4:41 am to pankReb
History can be written, drawn, oral or any other continuous record of events.
No record, no history.
No history does not mean that many and great things did not occur, it just means no one knows exactly what happened because there is no record.
No record, no history.
No history does not mean that many and great things did not occur, it just means no one knows exactly what happened because there is no record.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 4:42 am to DMAN1968
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The actual evolutionary birthplace of humans
Ha ha. No. Think about that statement for a moment and wake up.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 4:48 am to UFFan
Like others have said, it isn't documented well. Their oldest buildings in cities are mostly structures built during colonization.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 4:57 am to UFFan
North America was similarly in the stone age when Columbus showed up, excepting the Nordic settlements.
This post was edited on 5/14/23 at 4:59 am
Posted on 5/14/23 at 6:44 am to DMAN1968
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modernity
Look around. It ain't that great.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 6:51 am to wallowinit
quote:
Plenty of history.
Just not recorded.
Why would they not record their use of the wheel?
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:11 am to DMAN1968
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The actual evolutionary birthplace of humans and yet so far removed from modernity.
Things that make you go hmmmmm...
Seems like the people who moved away from the center had to creatively adapt more to survive, while people who stayed just got stuck with the status quo.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:36 am to UFFan
Destroyed by the armies of whites that trekked into the heart of the continent to capture and enslave the otherwise peaceful, nonviolent (and certainly nonslaveholding) native tribesmen living there.
This post was edited on 5/14/23 at 7:57 am
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:39 am to Darth_Vader
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when your civilization is still mostly hunter gatherer tribes
Yep.
If you can ever get rid of the corruption in Africa, you might see a few nations come into the modern age.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:42 am to pankReb
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Not by all definitions. That's just the definition of "written history".
Huh? No. History is literally the written record of events.
It can incorporate archeology, linguistics, geology, etc, but it isnt history until that happens. Literally. Factually. Those are different fields.
This post was edited on 5/14/23 at 7:43 am
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:58 am to UFFan
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history of note
Depends on what you mean by "of note."
Ethiopia has some interesting history. It did interact with the Mediterranean and Near East a bit though, so probably isn't what you're getting at.
There were some civilizations that were roughly equivalent to our idea of medieval society in terms of sophistication.
Early modern era kingdoms thrived on the slave trade to Europeans. There's some history there.
Liberia's history is quite interesting. Recommend Another America by James Ciment
Posted on 5/14/23 at 8:06 am to tigahbruh
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Huh? No. History is literally the written record of events.
it literally isn't just limited to "written records."
While it is most usually written or recorded on something tangible....that isn't the limitation of history. History can be spoken from generation to generation....which is usually the case for tribal people. Hell, the language itself is history. While they don't have stacks of text books documenting every thing that's ever happened, it doesn't mean they have no history....which is what was suggested earlier.
Just because you keep repeating the word "literally" doesn't make what you're saying factual......literally.
But to answer the OP....
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