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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Evergreen: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [qb]Reminds me of how mass produced European iron tools sold cheaply in west and central Africa that led to the loss of home grown technology.[/qb][/QUOTE]Evergreen Writes: alTakruri, insightfull post. From your research, why do you believe the Europeans reached this level of economic production before West and Central Africans (ie, craftsmanship to mass production/exporting economic societies)? The Eurocentrics would attribute this development to "big brains" or MCPH1. I tend to believe development of African economic production systems were/are synchronistic with resource availability. Europe is and has allways been resource poor (except for perhaps the UP). Necessity being the mother of all invention, resource poor Europeans would naturally focus on technology and "gadgets" as a means of feeding itself. Africa was blessed/cursed by natural resource wealth. Then again, those big European brains may be an indicator of genetic differentiationin between the northern and southern cradle cultures. Northern cradle "big brains" could represent the evolution of more lateralized brain structures. The emphasis on linear, analog thinking could have a genetic basis. As Diop noted, the greatest structures in Europe were dedicated to individual men. The greatest structures in Africa were dedicated to metaphysics. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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