@thephenocel: What good is a wheel in a swamp? In South Sudan’s wetlands, a dugout canoe will get you farther. From ox-drawn plows to the stone eel channels at Budj Bim, the tools people built tell us a lot about where they lived and who they could trade with. #WorldHistory #Geography #iq #HistoryOfTechnology #Anthropology
This is why racism is stupid, it's compromised of dumb, oversimplistic, unfalsifiable ideas that were debunked decades ago.
2026-11-09 00:56:15
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DanieLL :
I always wondered when they say Africans kingdoms building mud houses meant they were underdeveloped when mud houses were the perfect natural insulation system for the hot African weather.
2026-11-09 07:06:10
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sabrin🪷 :
thank god someone is being logical instead of being biased.
2026-11-08 20:15:12
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🇫🇷 :
Was that word at the end really necessarily 😭
2026-11-08 22:19:06
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user61909974576 :
europe were in the stone age when west africa had timbuktu library
2026-11-09 03:52:58
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IronLion :
Eurasia is lowk easy mode
2026-11-09 04:48:03
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Kareemo :
If someone made that same argument in 1000 AD, they would have pointed to Baghdad, Cairo, or Song Dynasty China as proof that Europeans were biologically incapable of advanced math and science.
2026-11-09 01:26:16
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iville._ :
Completely what?
2026-11-08 23:35:12
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thatoneblackgentlemen :
But see if you try to point this out on Twitter u get flamed
2026-11-09 13:14:26
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anyaa :
also a reminder! technological advancement doesn’t always mean big machines, guns, or big buildings. plenty of people groups that aren’t considered “technologically advanced” have techniques that are immense scientific discoveries, but are downplayed because they are indigenous
2026-11-09 16:47:02
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afrikanus✋🏿 :
you are missing many stuff out since the wheel wasn’t suitable for the environment they still have greated many inventions that suited their situation, “sub-saharan” Africa was the first region in the world to develop iron smelting(lejja site, nigeria 2000BC), they had pottery (ounjougou 9500 BC), science (ishango bones oldest mathematical artifact 30.000BC) and medicine (variolation against smallbox a West African man named Onesimus famously introduced the concept of variolation to Boston authorities USA) and even written language before most of Europe (meroetic, ge’ez) also Africa was never isolated they were doing maritime trading also before europeans in the indian ocean thats why it were found swahili mediaval coins in Australia.
2026-11-08 21:39:14
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Violet✨🐢 :
I mean yeah 😅as an African wooden buildings wouldn't make sense when we have such large termites everywhere😭 so mud is reasonable. also it's hot as balls down here😭😂 mud is so cooling I guess.
2026-11-09 09:33:43
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Matt :
I've never heard a slur in the "educational video essay" cadence before
2026-11-08 21:19:51
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kiukskam :
Africans domesticated the donkey in east Africa 7,000 years ago, we didn’t need to domesticate zebras. The first pack animal domesticated was the donkey which set the precedent for the domestication of other pack animals and they even made it to the Eurasian steppes prior to domestication of the horse 2,500 years later.
2026-11-08 21:26:27
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jothamjotham🇳🇬 :
life is a coin flip
2026-11-10 21:43:56
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Kuwa :
Humans evolved inteligence in Africa so animals had time to adapt that’s why there are still megafauna in Africa like elephants and giraffes but when the great protoindoeuropean migration happened all those animals had to deal with an invasive species that they were not equipped for so they died, it’s funny how other sciences and histories can help prove other fields claims
2026-11-13 23:35:43
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danny Pointer :
this is all I heard when he was talking
2026-11-08 22:10:21
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NotEmployed☮️🌲 :
They all ignoring this
2026-11-08 22:05:36
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WestAfrican :
"sub-saharan" wtf is even that?
sub-siberian Asia?
2026-11-09 08:10:30
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Julian Alonso 🍗🇪🇦 :
Crafting any tool used by Australian Aboriginal people is significantly more complicated and requires more practice, skill, and creativity than using a computer.
2026-11-08 19:36:14
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Abuyusuf :
Btw the rest of the world was more advanced, safer and more peaceful than Europe until the 14th central
2026-11-09 12:54:25
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Somebodyouusedtoknow :
Ancient Sudan(kush,Meroe and Nubian empire) had the wheel already and South Sudan was apart of ancient Sudan for most of its history
2026-11-08 21:02:53
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Ishe🇿🇼⚛️ :
Many places in "Sub-Saharan" Africa have cattle and higher altitudes that avoid tsete fly and many places also had food surplus from agriculture. The Bantu expansion spread agriculture and metallurgy to vast swathes of the continent which didn't already have it (Not talking about the other regions that did have it prior to the expansion like West or North Africa). Many Southern and Eastern Bantu ethnicities incorporated pastoralism as an additional mode of production. Comparing regions would make more sense than comparing giant landmasses with large internal diversity.
2026-11-09 15:54:27
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jk :
socioeconomic factors n shiettt maynee
2026-11-10 10:03:02
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Roots :
people be blaming sub Saharan Africans for not having writing acting like Europe would have if it wasn't for the Egyptians or Sumerians
2026-11-09 10:59:41
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