leftysergeant
Penultimate Amazing
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That is a long way to show that you cannot bring anything forward to show us why they were such 'pretty big hitters'. Fortunately they 'still had their voices'. What a crap.
I think that I have made a solid argument to the effect that it is not race, but resourcesthat made the difference between Rome and Ethiopia.
Rome had resources that they could steal at the point of a sword from cultures around them. Most of their sciences they stole from the Greeks. The Greeks were not even literate when they met the Hebrews and Phoenicians. They were barbarous spear-chuckers who destroyed everything they could not carry away.
The Greeks did not even invent their own musical instruments. They gained them from contact with the mixed cultures of the Middle East.
Ethiopia was an outpost of developed civilization on the edge of a sparsely-settled continent. South and west of them, peole were struggling to stay alive until they established an agricultural base to sustain large populations.
When they did establish that base,, cities began to flourish.
Maybe you were of the impression that all Africans were living in grass-and-mud huts when Europeans "civilized" them.
You would be wrong.
Timbuctu had a functioning university and a thriving book-publishing trade before most Europeans were even allowed to learn to read.
For the length of time that Mali had existed, they were pretty far along, compared to Europeans at the same stage of development.
Their survivng musical tradition is centuries ahead of what Europeans invented for themselves. Their instruments are still suitable for modern music.
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