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did europeans steal idead from other cultures or did they become the most advanced...
- Thread starter Anthon A
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They didn't steal from the Africans, for the simple fact that there was nothing worth to steal.
Europeans didn't exist. There were several, but not all, European nations involved in long distance exploitation. They didn't set out with the goal to rob the natives blind. The intentiona was to trade. Something valuable from then for something valuable from us.
If they accept beats and mirrors as valuable, who are the we to correct them? Are you going to argue in a shop that the price is ridiculously low? Are you going to insist they must accept 5x the asking price? If you do not, why do you insists others do?
The goals were to discover and explore possible trading routes to China. Do business along the way. The cultural differences between those tribes and the sailors was enormous. Stealing was not in the program. Thieves on board were severely punished.
European nations became the most advanced nations simply because they invested in research and development. Even if they wanted to steal technology, they had to sail to India and China to get something worthwhile. In Africa there was nothing worth the trouble. That is why Africa was the last continent on the planet to be discovered (by Europeans).
Please get your facts right. You are looking with the fashionable politically correct ideology to events that happend half a millenium ago.
Europeans didn't exist. There were several, but not all, European nations involved in long distance exploitation. They didn't set out with the goal to rob the natives blind. The intentiona was to trade. Something valuable from then for something valuable from us.
If they accept beats and mirrors as valuable, who are the we to correct them? Are you going to argue in a shop that the price is ridiculously low? Are you going to insist they must accept 5x the asking price? If you do not, why do you insists others do?
The goals were to discover and explore possible trading routes to China. Do business along the way. The cultural differences between those tribes and the sailors was enormous. Stealing was not in the program. Thieves on board were severely punished.
European nations became the most advanced nations simply because they invested in research and development. Even if they wanted to steal technology, they had to sail to India and China to get something worthwhile. In Africa there was nothing worth the trouble. That is why Africa was the last continent on the planet to be discovered (by Europeans).
Please get your facts right. You are looking with the fashionable politically correct ideology to events that happend half a millenium ago.
While all cultures "stand on the shoulders of giants" (i.e. rely to some extent on the learning's of previous cultures) Europe gained its civilisation thought the Muslim world's Perso-Byzantine inheritance, Europe's own classical backdrop, a fortuitous lack of political stifling of academia & a few genius's of there own.
Africa had little to offer, even there diamonds pale into ecnomic insignificance next to Europe's coal or the Middle East's oil...
Africa had little to offer, even there diamonds pale into ecnomic insignificance next to Europe's coal or the Middle East's oil...
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What do you mean like how to build a mud hut .
there is a common lineage drawn between the civilizations from the ancient near east and modern europe. you dont give a specific time line for when you are talking about so this answer will be general. europeans have led to great advancements in all aspects of life, particularly from the time of the renaissance. perhaps europeans ability to create large armies and conquer is really what sets them apart from the rest of the world. through conquest and exploration they were able to not only spread western culture but also to extract whatever they saw fit to further their ways of life.