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To prove the point, this map shows the Temperate Zones of the world in yellow.

It is no coincidence that those zones are where the most developed countries are situated.

5. Climate's Role in Ancient Chinese Civilization

A suddenly cold climate about 5,500 years ago coincided with the advent of ancient Chinese civilization, implying some relationship between the two events, Chinese scientists said Monday.

http://www.china.org.cn/english/2003/Feb/55500.htm

4. Climate Changes Affect Ancient Civilizations: The role of climate in the development trajectory of the Near East, Greece, and Rome is discussed here -

http://www.suite101.com/content/climate-changes-affect-ancient-civilizations-a107526

3. Climate change helped the Incas build civilisation

Their warfare, building and agricultural skills may have been impressive but, according to scientists in Peru, the Incas would have been nothing without good weather induced by climate change.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/5916353/Climate-change-helped-the-Incas-build-civilisation.html

2. "The archaeologial and paleoenvironmental evidence is consistent with the notion that the development of complex societies in the Middle Holocene was largely the consequence of the responses of the precursor societies to deteriorating environmental conditions associated principally with the orbitally-driven weakening and southward retreat of the northern hempisphere monsoon belt."

http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2006/11/17/accidental_civilization

I will now add the links on the co-relation between Climate and Civilization.

1. Harsh climate change was the primary driver in the development of civilization, according to new research by the University of East Anglia.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Severing-Climate-and-Civilization-35804.shtml

But going even further, it is important to understand that civilization is a pyramid, and one generation builds on the work of preceding generations. So it is extremely misguided to credit the white man alone for technology and civilization, one thing has built upon another for generations and from all corners of the Earth to arrive at a peak, and events coalesce through wars, through trade, and through natural disasters and climate to bring development to a head. The small example I gave about gun powder was intended to show that white men didn't just miraculously develop the technology for firepower by themselves, They built on knowledge from elsewhere.

For example much of the most advanced science and technology especially mathematics which so much depends upon was developed in the Middle East by Arabic scholars. Anyone who doesn't know that things like geometry and calculus developed there is simply ignorant. With trade and movement (and mind you, some places are more amenable to trade and movement by reason of a body of water such as the Mediterranean for example) these things spread and develop easily. It is not by accident that three of the greatest civilizations ever rest on the Mediterranean - Egypt, Greece and Rome!

I can go one and on, and there is so much more to say, that's why I said I dont have the energy for this tonight. Another small example is that the flora and fauna of a place is also critical. Many here don't understand the huge advantage given by the presence of one single animal - the horse, for example. But I see a lot of sad ignorance here and a huge load of inferiority complexes. The matter is not as simple as saying that the white man is superior and he has invented this and that. There are layers and reasons to this phenomenon and it rests in a study of history and the environment. It is lazy to just bow down and say, oh, the European must be God!

By the way this has nothing to do with not giving credit where it is due - all credit is given - but one has to understand what one is talking about. The same people some of you are praising were busy burning hundreds of thousands of their women alive on allegations of witchcraft barely three centuries ago - and three centuries is nothing in historical terms. It's virtually like yesterday. So the story of mankind is manifold.

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This post arises from another thread - I was trying to make a response to a number of people who asserted the superiority of white people over black people, and regrettably the spambot got me on account of the links I included. Therefore I will repeat that post here and try to post the links separately. I will also break up my post in case I was banned for the length. Here goes -

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I had said I don't have the energy tonight - and truly, I dont. But you tempt me, so I will struggle to drop a few lines. You see this is not a question really of inferiority or superiority. Its rather a question of the ebb and flow of civilization as it makes its way through history, influenced by many tides not the least of which are environment and climate.

If you look deep into history you will find that empires have risen and empires have fallen. Once upon a time the greatest power in the world was Egypt, once upon a time it was Persia, once upon another time it was Greece, another time, Rome, another time, the Mongols, another time the Ottomans, another time the Germans, another time the British, now the Americans, and its looking like the near future is Chinese.

And yet in this same world there was a time, when Egypt and Rome were at the height of civilization and technology, places like the Germany and Britain of today were populated by bushmen and rural villagers who were very very backward - quite as backward as any African tribe was at another time. The Romans who conquered Britannia met there a very rustic backward people who had no cities and dwelt in gatherings of huts.

A person who doesn't think deeply would simply say, oh the Romans were superior people, but were they really or the tide of history, environment, location, trade and other factors had simply swept them to were they were?

If you reflect, you will find a certain trend among the most developed countries of the world - they all uniformly fall within the temperate zones of the world along certain latitudes. This tells you that climate and environment have a huge role to play in civilization. There is an old thread were this was discussed at length and I will try to dig it up and leave the link here. There are many advanced studies that have proven conclusively the relationship between climate and civilization. If the set of people who migrated to Europe remained in Africa, their descendants would suffer exactly what we are suffering - and its attendant effects on civilization. There is a science to this.

franchasofficia:
My brother you can spit out all the saliva in your mouth, it doesn't change the truth.



White race have proven to be a superior race with proven facts and track records that the whole world can see and feel.


Blacks are only good in activism and talk talk with no action.


Tell me who invented the internet?
Who invented the mobile phone or computer you are using to bask in your ignorance?
Who invented the aeroplane?
Who invented automobile?
Who invented ship, boats?
who invented Radio, TV?
Who invented formal education?
Who invented gun, bombs?
Who invented industrial machines and industrial revolution?
Who invented fan, airconditioners, electric iron?


Who invented medical equipments and medications saving your lives?


I am tired of typing, enjoy your foolery

I don't know where to start. You need a long lesson in history. Sadly, I don't have the time or energy today.

But just to help you start. Gun powder came from China. Wish I had your time. Just go and study world history properly. Your ignorance and inferiority complex are truly sad.

accordadoga27:
Hehehehe

I did the same for my husband and I thank God I have not for one day regretted my action.

God bless every faithful man out there.

Not trying to rain on your parade or douse your fire, I wish you the best, but it's not over till it's over.

Jeon:

Good one woman, no wonder the ancient Rothschild forbidden....... Anyways, hope you have other houses?, in case of Invaders.

You are intriguing.

Jallotti:
Suffering in the abroad is much better abeg!

@ the bold!

ANormalHuman:
Better.

You didnt even understand the significance of that withdrawal.
It is well.

ANormalHuman:
I don't necessarily care how you think I feel.

I've been on Nairaland long enough to know that people speak lots of thrash whenever there's a valid argument going on.
And I'm ready to speak back thrash at any thrashy person.

The history you talked about, you've still not explained it.
I'm conversing with you, not medium.com, you don't expect me to click the link. I'd rather hear it from your mouth.

And don't forget the logic behind my question, which is:
The 1400+ people that were killed by Hamas, what were their individual offenses?

You know what, please forget I said anything. My apologies.

ANormalHuman:
What history exactly please?

People killed their fellow brothers because of what their great great great grand parents did to each other, what history exactly please?

The 1400 people that were killed, what was their offense? History?

If it's really about history, why didn't Hamas build a time travel machine and go back to the past to attack the history behind their conflicts?

Mind you,
1. Hamas isn't a body that was pursuing justice whatsoever... Check their history.
2. This matter was resolved on several occasions but the Palestinians didn't accept the advice.

History is not just what happened five hundred years ago. History is also what happened yesterday and even one minute ago. I suppose you don't understand what's going on in the West Bank and Gaza. I also fear that any attempt to discuss it rationally with you will only lead to insults. I can sense and feel your pulse already in that regard.

My honest feeling is that you have not taken time to study the matter carefully.

I don't know if this article will help. It's quite objective. But please, if it makes no sense to you, just junk it, thanks.

https://medium.com/@isaac_1884/the-attacks-on-israel-and-the-response-15ed50e63da6

ANormalHuman:
This is where justice system works.

Cos honestly I don't understand two sets on human beings here on Nairaland.

1. The ones that will support Hamas in a war and call Israel terrorists, meanwhile Hamas came in and killed 1400 people in Israel for no reason. And Israel clearly warned civilians to evacuate before they retaliated.

2. The idiots that link every argument to politics, ethnicity and religion.

You need to interrogate the red carefully. In doing so, please pay attention to history.

KingOfAmebo:
I really don't understand the sympathy when a terrorist group invaded a country killing civilians and kidnapping dozen back to their country but when the country they invaded started fighting back they are all weeping and crying injustice (crocodile tears)

The media also make it look like Israel is the evil one here while expecting the world to be sympathetic to the Palestinian terrorists cowardly using civilians as shields.

Nonsense and Hamas.

Hamas' action was stupid - not least for want of common sense, strategy and timing, but methinks you are in need of a huge dose of history. You simply don't know the history.

Ginomel:
If you had a car and someone held your car for over Three hours and even brought another driver to drive your car while you were watching. He eventually left your car for you, warned you and left. You took back your car after he left.

Will you say the person that held your car was disgraced?

That was what happened in Afghanistan.



* walks away shaking my head *

Pathetic reasoning.

NinjaMetahuman:
what's the point of googling?

Doesn't that buttress my point that it's irrelevant to be spending this huge money on weapons when they have urgent problems affecting their citizens that they could be spending those ridiculous money they spend on weapons on?

All these countries you listed have major issues affecting them. Most of them don't even have security issues like Nigeria, yet they are spending bliions of dollars on weapons they will likely blow off for the fun of it cos there is no where to use it.

Or just give them for free to nations that are having security issue.

Like how do you explain Russia having over 6000 nuclear weapons and usa having almost same number of weapon? Were they planning to bomb every cityy on earth or what's the end game here?

Gbam! You make sense!

Especially the last two lines!

Ginomel:
Leave those people under rating US. That country is a monster. They thought US is Kim Kardashian. Maybe they have not heard of NASA, atomic energy team etc.

That's why they were disgraced in Afghanistan just as they were disgraced in Vietnam long ago abi?

Yawn.

Ginomel:
And US will be sleeping. You think dollar dominance will end in the next twenty years?

Dollar dominance ending in twenty years I doubt primarily because China is culturally unattractive and does not have the global consensus that the USA has. This is different from the question of size of economy. Unquestionably about size, China will soon overtake the US. That one is indisputable.

And yes, the US is sleeping big time. As much as I despise him, the president who was willing to go toe to toe with China in terms of an economic war was Trump.

Varunpulyani:
Northerners long for power dey don't marry miscreants like RevDesm0ndJuju or duro4chang those are Thier online animals who kill in the name of Allah.

Dark and windy tidings be unto you.

I am Special Attorney to RevDesm0ndJuju by fiat of his holiness Falseprophet1.

Criticizing or insulting the Rev Juju is herewith proscribed upon pain of nocturnal visitation and an abundance of spiritual consequences.

You are herewith commanded to recant now, bow before and seek the forgiveness of the Rev Juju for your impertinence, in order to avoid most dire implications in terms of destiny, livelihood, sleep at night, as well the performance of any sexual organs.

Be guided accordingly.

Signed -
Secretariat,
High Occultic Order of Falsity & Juju

Karnice600:
We heard this 10 years ago. More reasonable to say something else.

It can't be stopped. Acquaint yourself with the facts and figures and examine the growth trend. Even if you can dispute the military bit, the economic bit is beyond cavil.

God1000:
We live in dangerous times

US and Russia account for 90 percent of the world's nuclear warheads, any miscalculation will be end of human race.

China and other countries are also is planning to build more.

We've never had a peaceful world and it will never be peaceful, it's about dominance and USA is the master now

I believe the era of US hegemony is at an end. Within the next decade alone, China will be the biggest economy in the world, and its military mastery will only follow that.

saphiere:
God forbid this kind of gender. No sham at all.
Why men can't control their sexual urge still an unsolved puzzle.

God forbid what he created?

EXOUSIAng:
Dey play.
Remember the man whose horse spoke in the bible, dude was on his way to curse Israel.
God stopped him because even God knows the curse would have worked.
If what you said is true, God for just allow waka go waka come.
The realm of the spirit doesn't work that way.
If live your live with this your mindset you will be easy prey

I believe it was an ass.

Vision101:
@me
One of the benefits of removal of subsidy. The savings is there. We advised you rather than be living fake life and infrastructure deteriorate, remove the bloody subsidy and rechannel the savings to capital formation items.

You obviously know nothing about Nigeria if you really think any savings from subsidy removal will go towards any infrastructure.

Delight3:
please guys, please I've tried to get little help here to no avail, please I beg you in the name of Almighty GOD pls, If any good samaritan can please help me, no matter how little so we can buy foodstuff and cook, I will be very happy. my daughter and I we are starving. Please help us the last time we ate a good food was from our neighbor on  sunday. Since then we have surviving on drinking garri since Monday and the garri we use to have hope has finished. the little money I have I used it to pay for house rent so that we can at least have roof over our head. am pleading for help please, not for my sake but for my daughter please am a single mother. No matter how little it will go a long way to help us. Almighty God bless you

Acct num with faith

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G.TBank

My name is Angela. Almighty God bless you and your family

Will you stop this?

Seun, nlfpmod

Pakute:
Did GEJ experience recession?, No.
Did GEJ experience pipeline vandalism and production shortfalls?, No
Did GEJ experience Covid?, No.
Did GEJ experience Ukrain/Russia war that's affecting food prices? No.

You know these are pathetic excuses. You know the havoc PMB wreaked. And you will know by force what BAT is wreaking.

VinnyBaba:
Yarimo, LegendHero and Seunsmg will soon Invade this Thread like swarm of Hungry Bees!🙁

This I have seen. 🤨🙂

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Be guided accordingly.

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I bid you sternly, be on your most proper conduct as advised.