Venturing out to the unknown

Given the environment factors that plagued the Europeans, primarily scarcity of food and resources, it explains their need to venture out to source for food. Their mentality was: Maybe there is some other land out there far across the valleys and seas where we would find abundance. The sub-saharan africans didn't need to venture out. They had everything they needed.

Some people blame the inability of the sub-saharan Africans to develop advanced sea-faring technology or the movable vehicles with wheels, on their intrinsic lack of intelligence and creativity. Given all I've laid out in previous posts, it's easy to see how false this notion is. Why risk death like the Vikings did many times when trying to build ships to sail the seas, when you really didn't need to?

Our ancestors were complacent and lazy, I'm not disputing that, but this was simply because they had all they needed at their doorsteps. Abundance stifles invention. Lack necessitates it.

Gmajor:


WTF !
How did you make this leap in logic from human beings don't fully understand the double slit experiment to our thoughts are waves.

Nawa oh. Thats not how logic and critical thinking works.

The reason Africa is backward is a very complicated subject that can't be reduced to "Africans don't think positively ".

I know that it's comforting to think that complicated questions can be distilled to simple answers, but in the real world, it doesn't work that way.

With all your supposed ability to think critically and logically, you couldn't figure out that what you quoted was just an introductory post? So eager to rush in and showcase your "intelligence."

Some people don't allow me finish before they start condemning me. I've only just began, I've not even gotten to the more crucial aspects of the post and people are already acting like I've finished my presentation.

Omo I'm not getting paid for this. It's tiring having to deal with people like this all the time. I'm tired honestly.

The curse of abundance: Too much of everything is bad

Lack breeds invention, while abundance stifiles it. The tropical topography of sub-saharan Africa allowed for the easy growth of a variety of food crops. Seeds from fruits would drop randomly on the ground from the mouths of our ancestors and months later a tree would form, without anyone doing anything. The soil was fertile and the climatic conditions, perfect.

In comparison, the temperate conditions in Europe and parts of Asia were harsh. There was scarcity of food and resources. If food wasn't gathered and preserved before winter, whole families starved to death.

While the people in sub-saharan African were plucking mangoes and pineapples from their backyards, the Europeans were coming up with ways to ensure that they preserved the little they had, not just against the coming winter period, but against the raiders and marauders that would storm into villages looking for what to steal. The Europeans had to learn to make strong houses and thick clothes that would withstand the winter storm and keep them warm.

These sorts of dire conditions necessitated the creation of a more more sophisticated form of Agriculture, infrastructure for preserving the food, and weapons to defend themselves against the raiders.

Nature selected for a people who were good with planning, foregoing pleasure for future benefits and skilled in the art of warefare and logistics. In essence the Europeans had to learn to invent and improve on their inventions, or else they died. It was a necessity.

Cokahot:
Bull shit. Money is life. Get money

Money is actually not life. This mindset is actually damaging to your spiritual growth. This belief is based on a very material notion of the world, and sadly it's becoming more rampant. There has never been a time in human history where the whole world was this narcissistic and obsessed with material things, especially the younger generation.

Besides, money has never been proven to gaurantee happiness, so what's the fuss? It usually does the opposite. This opinion might seem crazy to a person that grew up in poverty or lack, but it's true and well researched and documented. Just read.

Check the statistics. Majority of people that commit suicide are rich people, hence the phrase; Suicide is a luxury of the rich.

Point One: Geographical Isolation

One of the factors that hampered the development of sub-saharan African countries is how geographically isolated they were from the rest of the world.

Sub-saharan Africa is bordered to the west by the Atlantic ocean, to the east by the Indian Ocean, and to the north by the Sahara desert. This geographical placement prevented them from having easy access to other parts of the world. They didn't participate in the sharing of technology and learning that Europe and the Asia continent had among themselves.

Also, the only trade route that linked sub-saharan Africa and the other parts of the world were through the the Sahara desert, which at the time was a hub of bandits, horders and slave-traders, not to mention the harsh climate of the area and how difficult it was to traverse the desert.

Europeans borrowed knowledge from the Arabs, the Arabs borrowed knowledge from the Europeans, the Asians borrowed knowledge from the Arabs and the Europeans borrowed from the Asians. All these people would fight wars against themselves and steal technology and information from their rivals.

African however only interacted with and fought amongst themselves within the confines of their geographical prison.

Another group of people that had this same problem of geographical isolation were the Native Americans. The Northern and Southern American continents are bordered by oceans on all sides. These people also suffered the same fate Sub-saharan Africa suffered, even worse I'd argue because they were killed and their lands and homes were taken from them by the more developed Europeans.

With all that out of the way, let's examine why Sub-saharan Africa developed at a slower pace than other parts of the world.

Other notable kingdoms and empires are the Songhai Empire, the great Zimbabwe kingdom and a couple others.

The Benin Kingdom

The kingdom of Benin was established in the forested region of West Africa in the thirteenth century. The kingdom reached its greatest power and size under Oba Ewuare the Great. He expanded the kingdom and improved the capital, present-day Benin City; the city was defined by massive walls and paved streets

Artists of the Benin Kingdom were well known for working in many materials, particularly brass, wood, and ivory. They were famous for their bas-relief sculptures, particularly plaques, and life-size head sculptures.

The Mali Empire

The Mali Empire was an empire in West Africa founded in the thirteenth century and lasted till the Seventeenth century. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita and became renowned for the wealth of its rulers, most especially Mansa Musa, who in his time was regarded as one of the wealthiest men in the world.

The Mali empire's most important cities were Djenne and Timbuktu, both of which were renowned for their elaborate adobe mosques and Islamic schools. One such institution, Timbuktu’s Sankore University, included a library with an estimated seven hundred manuscripts. The Mali Empire at its peak was one of the jewels of the African continent and was known the world over for its wealth and luxury.

Before I hit directly at the subject matter, I'll like to make another important clarification.

I'm not saying these African countries didn't have any development at all. I'm not saying they comprised of naked, uncivilized people running around the jungle like animals.

In the past, there were sub-saharan African Empires and kingdoms that were developed, although I'll argue, not to the degree of their European and Asian counterparts, and I'll give detailed examples of some of them below.

I want to clarify that when I'm speaking about black african countries, I'm speaking specifically of African countries south of the sahara. My reason for this is because African countries north of the sahara like Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, Morrocco aren't typically black african countries. There is a lot of Arab influences in their genetics and culture.

So I'll be focusing on sub-saharan african countries and cultures.

blaquebelle:
Damn it, you've dumped another thread. Classic OurTruth

I didn't dump the other thread. I'll be posting and it and on this one, simultaneously.

Thoughts become things: The double split experiment.

The double split experiment is an experiment in the field of quantum physics that has boggled the minds of even the smartest of scientists all the way back to the likes of Albert Einstein.

What the double split experiments showed was that at a subatomic level, the wave nature of matter can be collapsed into particle form. In essence, waves can turn into particles when the consciousness of a human is introduced.

Our thoughts are waves, and these thoughts can become particles; become material things. Whatever we dedicate our thoughts towards will be manifested in our reality. The potency of this phenomenon increases when multiple people all think the same thing. This is why prayer sometimes works.

When a group of people believe that they are a certain way, even though they aren't that way, gradually they begin to become that way. This is a key point that's very relevant to the subject matter.

So even as we explore this subject, do not believe that any groups of people are intrinsically better than you. Do not say it to yourself and do not say it to your children. Do not add to the problem we face by focusing on these sorts of thoughts.

This is a subject that actually kickstarted my desire to seek knowledge, to engage in honest research and to learn. I have researched this subject for many years and I've gathered a lot of information as to why black African countries are not up to the level of their western and eastern counterparts

This journey is going to be visual, as I will post many pictures to back up the written information I'll put forward, so if you love pictures and art, this is going to be entertaining for you.

This subject matter is very sensitive, so I'll try to thread carefully. In that vein, I want everyone reading this to know that the information I'm putting forward doesn't come from a place of racism, prejudice or hatred of the west or of black Africans.

I'm a black and proud Nigerian and I want my people to know the truth. That's my only motivation for making this thread.

Let's begin.

congo4ka:


I prefer your alien threads!
Why are black africans so backwards! What are your theory?

The explanation is very long. I've researched it. I'm thinking of creating a thread for it. What do you think?

If you are still following and want me to continue, please like this comment. It appears you guys have lost interest.

When we marinate on images like the ones below and are presented with the visual evidence of very primitive Victorian people, dotted around like grasshoppers, within the shadows of the most magnificent, grandiose, brilliant architecture a human could ever imagine. We begin to have doubts.

Indeed, how did they build this?

The dots will connect themselves as we proceed. I won't put forward any theories now, let your mind wander.

What about Paris, France 1860s

People, life.

London, England. 1860s

Finally, people.

Athens, Greece. 1860s

Empty.

Dresden, Germany. 1860s

Empty

Copenhagen, Denmark. 1940s

Empty.

Edinburgh, Scotland. 1840s

Emtpy.

How about the rest of the world during that time period?

When we travel 400 miles across to Moscow, we see the same thing. Empty, quiet streets. In 1860, Moscow had a population of roughly 500,000 citizens, but again, where is everybody?

The long shadow of Alexandra Colomn, gives us a clue to the time of the sun's journey above this region. Long shadows occur during the morning or evening. It must be morning. But it appears that no one has surfaced yet. Where did everyone go?

The pictures below are of 19th century St Petersburg, Russia. The city is cold, the early morning mists dissipating with the approach of the sun. The year is 1860 and while St Petersburg stands proud, it is quiet, too quiet.

The population of St Petersburg in 1860, we are told was roughly 500,000 people, yet there is not a soul in sight. Where is everybody?

Let's take a step back and observe something even more eerie.

Furthermore, the narrative gives us a population that increases in a linear fashion from 1764.

Many of the buildings we see here were built many years before those pictures were taken. Did the Russians just plan well in advance? I mean, look at the population graph.