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this question might come off ignorant to some people in this site..but i have been wondering about this for a long time...how come Europe and Asia was more advanced then North America South America and Africa around the 1600s??..
what do you mean by advanced? if you mean stone work then the Incas were and still are miles ahead of anyone, if you mean exploration wise like ships and such, they didn't really need to be, same with warfare, who needs gunpowder when pushing them down the mountain works just as well and doesn't weigh half as much, nor blow up in your face. North America was so open there was no need, plus it was mostly desert and still is, so you could walk for months and not see anyone. simply put they didn't need the type of advancement that europe and asia had.
ugh so much explaining to do well im lazy so u can go research for urself but ill tell u some fun facts being that im a history major i think i can clear this up pretty quickly
ah before i start let me clear up this dude i quoted...ill just say ur dumb yep that about covers it hahaha
first of all africa had no need to "advance" as u choose to put it so theyre easy to count of of this question they found a way of life and they stuck to it (and even now many tribes in africa still follow that exact same way of life) im not getting into the reasons because thats half a semmester of anthropology based off years of living with and studying them
also dont group europe and asia true around the 1600s they were about equal but only cause china didnt care (theres a semmester on chinese civ) but to sum it up real quick china invented everything china is the center of the world the most important place and no one else matters because china is the shit and if its not chinese we dont care (that was chinas thought process back in the day) and really they did invent almost everything if they didnt its because they saw no need for it so didnt care because of that view after a certain point they stopped developing where as europe slowly and steadily stole inventions from china...i mean addopted and then made more shit and later on fcked china and asia hard core but thats a whole other story
anyway so back to the main issue north america...yea useless they really did nothing didnt event anything special no great technology they were back in the stone age there was only 1 semi decent civilization and they somehow went extinct and beyond having trade routes and a few large cities (large at the time really they were tiny a few thousand ppl at the most) they had nothing special especially since this was over 10 thousand years after the japanese first created pottery (yea japan had pottery before anyone else) so all north america had was a "rich culture" as some would call it (me im not interested its boring and nothing special whatsoever)(this part is my opinion if ur offended too bad u take 2 semmesters on them and ull realize "o wow i learned nothing cause there was nothing to learn these ppl totally fail"...im bitter) ignorring my rants and getting back to facts....
South america they had some cool shit in very few areas... math good farming good stonework good but still really not that great however theres still a ton we dont know about the native south americans seeing how they had a tendency to disapear and leave us (us being anthropologists and historians) going wtf
hopefully that answered ur question and odinn learn ur facts before ur say weird shit dont deffend ppl based on ur feelings stick to facts not "but they did this"
srry but no one cares cause everyone did that...until they found better ways
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