Why was the wheel not invented in Africa?

Until a century or two ago, those parts of Africa which had no contact with Europe or the Middle East stagnated, and did not progress beyond the Stone Age. It was only when and where there was contact with those regions that progress was made and civilisation emerged.

[@Daisyworld743]

Africa was at the forefront in developing and applying a monumental sense of entitlement.

[@ameliaannhouck2670]

YES THEY DO LOVE TO STEAL EVERYTHING WANT SOME ?? GLAD TO BE RID OF THEM !!

[@BrickyMindset45]

In the year 1787, upon seeing all of the evidence of the African in Egypt, Count Constantine De Volney wrote: "Just think, that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech!"

[@AllStarSnork]

Nailed it

[@maxineblick451]

👏🏻😄

[@1oldgit]

🤣🤣

[@Lollsize]

my aunt lived in Namibia, . she paid her maid and gardener their salary on a monthly basis. both disappeared for a week , and retuned skint , having blown the money on drink and drugs. . they did not pay the rent or buy food for their kids. she tried paying them weekly , same result. so my aunt decided she would deducted the rent money , and food money and paid the rent for the month , delivered the food on a daily basis , so it could not be sold on for booze and paid the rest of their salary on a daily basis. that worked.. the only thing she did not do was wipe their arse..

[@ultimaetsolder]

Like little children.

[@f5mando]

…and there we have it.

[@timwright5466]

I was there at that period and that is so true

[@therealisation5500]

I understand offer one a jazz cigarette now or three in an hour they'll take one now

[@hansemannluchter643]

She should have whipped their arse..

[@johns280]

Because every time a prototype wheel was invented, the inventor would find the rest of the invention the next morning up on blocks and the wheels missing.

[@user-qh9kk5ix9t]

Thanks for making me laugh

[@DavianSinner]

LOL

[@jamierobertson9832]

I live in Pretoria and it is shameful how Johannesburg and Pretoria has disintegrated before our eyes. To put it simply, its a disgusting and crime ridden craphole.

[@tjhta]

Cannibalism, they ate the smartest man in the village. Either that, or they sold him into slavery.

[@adamweisshaup]

This probably isn't very far from the truth. The genetic lottery inevitably spits out excellent thinkers in any ecology however if the society is notably fearful of unorthodox thinking they're for the plank.

[@forthfarean]

Did they have the rotating spit ,or did they just boil their rivals?

[@mjef3695]

🤣

[@angelaeastwood3938]

😅 brilliant comment

[@speed5852]

Lmaoo thats a lie you know it is. While africa was Being civilized yall was in Europe acting like savages BarBarik Backwards, cannibalism, homosexuality and disease literally all kame from there,its Been documented and stated By multiple philosophers from ancient greece,

[@willmatthews878]

Are you suggesting that Africa culturally appropriated its way out of the stone age? Shocking, just shocking.

[@leathleyg5995]

Some would argue that it's not "out".....

[@BigD12396]

Counter his argument for us then!

[@ameliaannhouck2670]

NAH WE HAD TO FORCE THEM ! ALSO SEE SOUTH AFRICA RIGHT BACK TO TRIBALISM AND ZAKE ZULU !! THEY CANNOT BE CIVILIZED !

[@ashlibabbittcroakedit9108]

@@BigD12396 The oldest iron works in the world is found in West Africa

[@gerrywoody4301]

@@ashlibabbittcroakedit9108 i bet its rusty

[@majerstud]

Approximately 10,000 years ago, the first two-story liquor store was built in Africa. The next day, it was looted and burned to the ground.

[@Supersacwithit]

Asians arrived in Africa 10,000 years ago to build the liquor store? That would be news.

[@idontreadyourrepliesever8032]

We know there are two things they didn't invent. One is the wheel, the other is work.

[@jacquelinewebster9171]

Europeans were so lazing that they had to take slaves to work for them. no wonder you just described yourself

[@deniswauchope3788]

That is one of the great unanswered questions of our "scientific" age. Much the same thing happened in Australia, where the indigenous Aboriginal people didn't advance much at all in 40-50,000 years. When I was there I was amazed at how many Aussies believed the myth of the "noble savage," and think that the primitive Aboriginal culture was superior to the White civilization brought by English settlers. In fact, the Aboriginal peoples were almost constantly at war with each other, and their lives were in general "nasty, brutish and short."

[@brucetindal7399]

They lived there 40,000 years and invented a stick.

[@elisekuby2009]

About the only invention among the Abos were the various types of Boomerang. Surely used to kill one another in their various tiresome skirmishes. The latest news out of one of the small towns was absolutely horrifying.

[@brucetindal7399]

@@elisekuby2009 As i said. A stick

[@elisekuby2009]

@@brucetindal7399 Sorry...but your comment re stick was not there when I answered. Apologies.

[@jonb3311]

Ditto in New Zealand.

[@johnbolt665]

Tyrone was having trouble in school. His teacher was always yelling at him, "You're driving me crazy, Tyrone, can’t you learn anything!!?" One day, Tyrone's mother came to school to check on how he was doing. The teacher told her honestly, that her son was simply a disaster, getting very low marks, and that she had never seen such a stupid boy in her entire teaching career. The mom was so shocked at the feedback that she withdrew her son from school and moved out of Detroit, relocating to Cleveland. 25 years later, the teacher was diagnosed with an almost incurable cardiac disease. All the doctors strongly advised her to have open-heart surgery, which only one surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic could perform. Left with no other options, the teacher decided to have the operation, which was remarkably successful. When she opened her eyes after the surgery, she saw a handsome young doctor smiling down at her. She wanted to thank him, but could not talk. Her face started to turn blue, she raised her hand, trying to tell him something, but quickly died. The doctor was shocked, wondering what went wrong so suddenly. Then he turned around and saw our friend Tyrone, a janitor in the Clinic, who had unplugged the life-support equipment in order to connect his vacuum cleaner. If you thought Tyrone had become a heart-surgeon, there is a high likelihood that you voted for Obama..

[@henkbielderman4243]

Ha! And there was I, all ready to scoff at your story! Turns out to have been true!

[@michaelmacpherson-wm6mh]

[@humpy936]

OMG I started choking, I laughed so hard!, there are some truly amazing comments, here and funny as hell.😂

[@midway27272727]

@@humpy936 Truth will make it funny

[@stephenbiggins9114]

Excellent, I thought this was going to have a fairy tale ending. 😅👍

[@kurtgubitz]

“The wheel was easy. The axle was much more difficult.” -Charles Krauthammer

[@pdsnpsnldlqnop3330]

The spindle harder still.

[@Blox117]

Axle is not important bearings are

[@marvalice3455]

Pithy, but false. Axels are pretty easy and wheels are hard

[@OmarAlikaj]

Half-Nigerian here. I don't think Africans would invent anything if they were satisfied with what they had. It may have also been due to the environments they dwelled in.

[@utubeCENSORSaregai]

At least you have a 50% chance of living

[@jacquelinewebster9171]

They invented many things. sadly yall white won’t stop whitewashing history. just google the the Ashanti, Ghana, Songhai, Senagambia, bachwezi,Axum, Kush, Kongo, Kanem ,Merina, Kingdom of Mapungubwe, Benin, Wolof empire, the great Zimbabwe, sokoto caliphate, etc

[@Speedofdark339]

You know little about your african side then

[@jacquelinewebster9171]

@@Speedofdark339 i know more about my contient than you do. this person is literally white😅

[@peterwillson1355]

That can be a good thing, if it's true, rather than just an excuse for stupidity. But they are certainly no longer happy with what they have, which is why so many seek to leave Africa and go to more advanced civilisations.

[@briangreen8504]

I am surprised they have not claimed they invented it had it taken to Europe against their will and demanded compensation

[@paulclothier2583]

Sorry, but have you not been listening to the likes of Kehinde Andrews (who needs to sit up straight) and Shola Ros Shomamibigbu recently?

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

what have they been saying?@@paulclothier2583

[@TPT6148]

No I haven't, complete waste of time!

[@Dav1d_I]

😂

[@JohnJohnson-vd2hp]

It's easy to mock Black peoples lack of achievements ! but i have a Black builder,Plumber,Electrician,&plasterer currently working on my house ! and if it hadn't been for the roof collapsing causing a flood & a subsequent electrical fault creating a major Fire i can honestly say these chaps had done a fine job.😄😄😄

[@ivormcfadzean325]

Aye and now we are importing this culture and work ethic into the civilised west what could possibly go wrong.

[@Occident.]

I'm seeing more of these people on Tyneside literally by the week. They are pouring them in!

[@RestlessBs3]

It’s happening everywhere, I moved to the very edge of my city two years ago it’s changed already.

[@susanwestern6434]

People need to check out the current mayor of New York. He is now moaning that they don't have the resources for all the new migrants. But he called New York a 'sanctuary city' so now they are turning up in their thousands. Schooling in New York has gone down the pan. The residents of New York have the same complaints as the citizens of the UK and Europe. But slightly different demographics. Many South Americans, many Venezuelans, who also seem to breed with their 1st cousins causing the same genetic issues as South Asian people.

[@bobbylee2853]

The advertisement says every white woman must get a black man or else she’s racist.

[@alanhaynes418]

They are literally arriving in their millions - and STILL we do nothing to stop it. Most of us are even too afraid to complain about it for fear of being called 'racist'.

[@fbomb7184]

Apparently this guy has never heard of Wakanda. The most technologically advanced society in the world is found in Africa… in comic books at least.

[@thomaswattsjr.7]

From the beginning of humanity there have always been a group of people who were curious and perhaps unsatisfied. They would look at distant hills and say to themselves "I wonder what's over there and if its any better than here." But there was also another group that was quite content to not ask questions and just sit where they were while flies crawled all over their face! I think that's your explanation.

[@Mr.Ekshin]

Every isolated group remained in the stone age while those who traded with other cultures prospered from the knowledge gained. Africa, Australia, and the Americas ALL remained as stone age societies. But those in the Eurasian accessible regions (including Europe, Asia, the middle east, North Africa, etc) all made great leaps forward as inventions were traded and exploited. Writing systems were perhaps the best invention for passing along knowledge. And once the first few cultures in Mesopotamia gained writing, it spread like wildfire to the rest across the trade routes. Add to this that equatorial regions were plagued by constant disease and infestations. If you look at any place on earth that has at least occasional hard-freeze conditions (ie: cold winter snaps), they prospered. It's amazing how well a hard freeze kills off disease and insect-borne sicknesses. To put it bluntly, northern regions stayed healthier, while the warmer places had much lower expected lifespans. You can't hope for a society to make great leaps forward when the "elders" are those who reach age 30, and where knowledge can only be passed along by word of mouth.

[@Kelnx]

@@Mr.Ekshin I think it's both really. Trade and certain segments of the population who are willing to pull up roots and go somewhere new. Just look at how so much of scientific progress and invention slowly dropped off in Europe and moved overseas to the Americas, simply because that's where the curious and adventurous went. There's no question that people in the US, who the vast majority of are descendants of European immigrants, are very different than modern Europeans in this regard. It's nothing "genetic", just when a culture becomes saturated with those who "dare", it enjoys progress, while when a culture becomes saturated with those who don't like change, it stagnates.

[@Mr.Ekshin]

@@Kelnx - True... but that was exactly what my examples were trying to show. America before trans-oceanic immigration and trade was a prime example of what 20,000 years of isolation brings (cultural stagnation). And America after only a few hundred years of trade and cultural influx is an entirely different story. It's literally stone age to space age within a few human life spans. But as to why equatorial regions are still mired in poverty and stagnation, it's still the disease and pestilence factors at work. It was only in the last hundred years or so that modern medicine has begun to change these places for the better.

[@EPUEPUEPUEPU]

@@Kelnx You do realize there are primitive tribes in Northern Europe called the Sami who didnt have the wheel and lived in huts up until the 1900s right? What people fail to realize is that Europeas growth came from trade with MENA, without that Silk Road and middle easterners Europe would not be where it is. Furthermore few people really understand the demographics of Africa, its 3X the size of Europe and had a few million people in historic times, with most of its concentration in northern Africa. So the rest of Africa was not only separated from trade but literally almost empty just like certain parts of Asia is empty. You will find the greatest growth in Areas which had the most trade and that was mainly North Africa and East Africa.

[@Kelnx]

@@EPUEPUEPUEPU Look, I don't know if you are being purposely obtuse or you just honestly missed my saying it, but I did mention TRADE as half of the equation. Re-read what I said please.

[@sonnyirish3678]

The Africans did not invent the wheel because they were working on their own space programme.

[@bollockchop501]

Exactly,the dogon tribe of Mali,were aware of Sirius and it’s moon donkeys years ago ,they had no telescope(had to wait for white men to invent it)so how did they know if they can’t see it with the naked eye?,apparently so credo mutwa reckons they were visited by people from the stars who gave them the knowledge

[@DanielVita]

@@bollockchop501 Your level of copium is embarrassing.

[@deanrussell2224]

@@bollockchop501so space travel but no wheel - flying saucers must’ve been a surprise as well 😅

[@midway27272727]

Space, out in space, wasting space, outer space, spaced out?

[@gusfring6887]

We wuz astronautz!

[@pearlygeoff3837]

They had no interest in the wheel until they saw 4 of them attached to a vehicle and left in the street to be easily taken and used to facilitate nefarious activities. Same with 2 wheeled vehicles for snatching from the hands of pedestrians. They could see no use for a wheel on its own.

[@lionh3387]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bV7WqWZnaNVjbtksi=EYDn1m3BdwTjCsDE

[@BrickyMindset45]

In the year 1787, upon seeing all of the evidence of the African in Egypt, Count Constantine De Volney wrote: "Just think, that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech!"

[@michaelgarrow3239]

Um,,, you know that is kinda demeaning to a particular race of people: right?

[@nicememe3793]

​@@michaelgarrow3239boo hoo

[@wildone106]

lmao nice

[@johnathanmiller3033]

facts are not racist .

[@McCracken216]

My mother in law was a black woman from Ghana. I asked her once why Africa was struggling so much. Her reply? "African men just don't want to work"

[@Gamaouat]

so you married a black man

[@sherimango3868]

True

[@geoffduke1763]

My sisters church started doing missions to Africa. They first went out built them a school and a well. They also bought them tools and taught them how to till the soil and grow what they needed to get by. They stopped going when they went back and the africans were sitting around waiting for them to come back and till their land for them.

[@paulclothier2583]

I have heard this too. The absolute BS is that the tsetse flies made their cows and horses ill, so they couldn't progress to using tractors.

[@ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511]

i met a guy who managed a diamond mine. first thing he did as manager was double the shockingly low wages. the result was that no one came to work the next day coz they had enough money for two days

[@stephencope7178]

And probably spent their off days dossing around and smoking ganja!! 😮

[@Occident.]

​​@@ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511Yes I worked with a huge tough dude who was an X manager of a mine in Africa. He was constantly armed with a pistol at his job in Africa . He told me similar stories of these people. These are the wonderful people pouring into Britain now. What possibly could go wrong? 🙄

[@r1234233]

While the wheel and animal-drawn wheeled transports were usable in the arid environment of the ancient Sahara,[4] and usable in the sparsely wooded, level, arid environment of the ancient Sahel,[5] the environment of the ancient Sudan may have made it rather impractical due to there being a lack of paved roads and seasonal rains.[4] The tse-tse fly belt is also distributed throughout the environment of tropical Africa, which is a region of increased risk for livestock and the spread of disease among livestock.[5] Additionally, compared to the drying environment of the ancient Sahara, use of canoes to travel and transport goods along local and regional waterways, such as Lake Chad, the Niger River, and the Senegal River, may have been a much more efficient means of travel and transport in the ancient Sudan.[4] In the Sudan, the early use of donkeys and horses, as well as the later use of camels, as beasts of burden and riding animals may have also been more suitable compared to their use as draft animals; consequently, their use in the Sudan may have spread rapidly, and their use may have also rapidly displaced the use of animal-drawn wheeled transports in the Sahara.[

[@kachmi]

I have little doubt that if every machine were smashed, every wire were pulled, and every wheel were flattened on that continent, that in less than a decade, David Livingstone's great great grandchildren could set foot upon it to embrace an Africa indistinguishable from that which the good doctor had seen for himself; and the peoples of Africa happily back in their mud huts and dugout canoes as though the world had never turned at all.

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

They still get washed in cattle urine for crying out loud(and they drink it and "clean"their teeth with it.)What the heck are we supposed to think of them!!

[@lionh3387]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bV7WqWZnaNVjbtksi=EYDn1m3BdwTjCsDE

[@BrickyMindset45]

In the year 1787, upon seeing all of the evidence of the African in Egypt, Count Constantine De Volney wrote: "Just think, that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech!"

[@elisekuby2009]

Yes, very true!

[@secondchance6603]

The video, 'Empire of Dust' here on KZbin shows that exact thing happening. "In all honesty Eddy, you are really lazy." Chinese man telling his honest opinion about African men as workers, providers, producers and leaders. "People here don't have any sense of time. It's hard to adapt to life here. They waste time in almost everything they do. So we go back and forth." Source: Empire of Dust

[@paanjaan]

i was amazed while seeing some brickworks working over there, that they would literally carry coal on their heads hundreds of times to same place instead of building some simple contraption to move coal to specific place like crane or so

[@Blox117]

you mean like a "wheel" barrow?

[@MK_ULTRA420]

@@Blox117 Or just a human conveyor belt. That's what Europeans and Asians did after WW2, and that's not even a contraption.

[@hothatch1520]

There are monuments of achievement on every major continent…except Africa. Why ???

[@DavianSinner]

They're stupid.

[@viskovandermerwe3947]

I came from South Africa to Australia during 2008. I remember being so amazed at seeing every traffic light operating. I was amazed to see how the Auzzies were renovating old buildings with such care instead of just hijacking and overcrowding them. I couldn't believe roadsigns painted on tarmac being so clear. Everyone were sticking to speed limits! Traveling on public transport was brand new to me. I noticed people who were cleaning streets, pavements and street furniture (all intact)! I thought that much of this can be attributed to Sydney only....but later on I discovered the same with all cities and towns of Australia. Did I mention how safe I feel here?

[@heniakonas9439]

SA was like that during appartheid. Must have gone downhill by 2008.

[@henningvisser1108]

Modern day South Africans do not last in Aus because there is no "Sipho" or "Mpo" to do the hard work.

[@localreviewking134]

Some parts of the western world, ain`t sunshine and roses

[@Lbm414.Oleg.Kuznetsov.]

​As long as you keep blacks away from everything. All is well.

[@mikespencer4922]

​@@henningvisser1108keep telling yourself that shit....!

[@johnmclean1046]

Everything was invented in Africa and still is but these shy, reticent people don’t want to blow their own horn ( which they also invented )

[@williamcarrington61]

Far too much "Blowing " going on.

[@r1234233]

While the wheel and animal-drawn wheeled transports were usable in the arid environment of the ancient Sahara,[4] and usable in the sparsely wooded, level, arid environment of the ancient Sahel,[5] the environment of the ancient Sudan may have made it rather impractical due to there being a lack of paved roads and seasonal rains.[4] The tse-tse fly belt is also distributed throughout the environment of tropical Africa, which is a region of increased risk for livestock and the spread of disease among livestock.[5] Additionally, compared to the drying environment of the ancient Sahara, use of canoes to travel and transport goods along local and regional waterways, such as Lake Chad, the Niger River, and the Senegal River, may have been a much more efficient means of travel and transport in the ancient Sudan.[4] In the Sudan, the early use of donkeys and horses, as well as the later use of camels, as beasts of burden and riding animals may have also been more suitable compared to their use as draft animals; consequently, their use in the Sudan may have spread rapidly, and their use may have also rapidly displaced the use of animal-drawn wheeled transports in the Sahara.

[@ronnietexan]

This is true. When white Europeans sailed to the African coast they had not even invented the sailing ship. They had to copy the African ones, sail back to |Europe, and then sail to the African coast to invent the only thing that white people ever invent and that is slavery. Again, they had to copy the African slavery before they could be the first ones to invent it, but by golly, they did it and were the first and only people to ever own slaves. All this is in one of the olisogs, olisoga, or whatever's books, probably.LOL!

[@MrMegagoldenarms]

@@ronnietexanthe Phoenician, Egyptians and Nubian had ships well before the Europeans. These are all African civilizations.

[@dirkvanvelden8378]

​@@MrMegagoldenarmsarab

[@johndickson435]

A short story of when I was a teen. My Grandmother lived in Detroit and every morning at around 5am you would see women sweeping the curbs and sidewalks then fix breakfast for the Husband so he could go to work and detroit had one of the largest populations in the country and was a great place to live and then THEY CAME. Look at it now.

[@jamiemcgill67]

Sad but true 😢

[@Supergeologist]

When i was in primary school, we were poor but i remember my mum giving me 'sixpence for the poor of Africa'. Nearly 60 years and trillions of sixpences later, what has changed?

[@JT-qh2up]

Lots more Africans

[@ahmataevo]

@@JT-qh2up Too many africans...

[@MargieM10]

IQ. The only reasonable explanation for _everything_ that comes from those roots.

[@paulclothier2583]

This is why The Faecal Guardian claims that IQ does not exist.

[@christalmeth613]

Yes, Africa has lowest IQ on the planet.

[@PATTA-ICICLE]

THen if is" iq" u can't really blame them

[@BrickyMindset45]

In the year 1787, upon seeing all of the evidence of the African in Egypt, Count Constantine De Volney wrote: "Just think, that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech!"

[@christalmeth613]

@@bestcomsystems4458The Britons weren't thick and you know it. What is thick is knowing there is wheel to help carry loads and still sending your child 10 miles to collect water and fetch it back on their heads today. It's this selfishness and willingness to put suffering on others that stifled innovation and actually held Africa back. They continued to trade their people as slaves after slavery was banned. You only have to look at what happened in Rhodesia, despite the farming technology they destroyed their own food supply, not the brightest of moves. The problem is Africans invented nothing of use to the modern world, but now claim to have invented everything that others did. It was only recently Africans laid claim to building the pyramids. It's okay that they didn't invent anything, but it's not okay to lie and steal the credit from other nations.

[@slowboywhiteboardv4]

Wheels make work. That's why

[@wjf0ne]

@slowboywhiteboardv4 It certainly makes the manufacture of a clay pot much easier.

[@dobermankompanie]

An Work sets us free

[@BrickyMindset45]

In the year 1787, upon seeing all of the evidence of the African in Egypt, Count Constantine De Volney wrote: "Just think, that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech!"

[@user-iv5gy3rc2b]

That explains why they didn't invent work boots too.

[@lukadubak7476]

​@@dobermankompaniegermans used to think that too.

[@dps8435]

Apparently the sponge was invented in africa.

[@PallahDaOracle]

The answer is geography. The interior of africa is not condusive for peoples to trade along the rivers because of how rough the terrain is. Let alone how rough the terrain is and how dense the forests are. There just wasnt the enviromental aids that the rest of the world was lucky to have. The european coast line is longer than that of africas and its rivers are a lot more maangeable. Therefore it was far more condusive for tribes to come together, trade and become societies. Thats why the nile was so important. Easy access. Same with the tigris and euphrates. You had more people run into each other there than the rest of the world. They ended up trading, bartering and slowly formed complex societies that featured an ever more complex social structure. Thus ideas were shared, life got easier, farming and civilization was born. All around the mediatteranean sea. Heck mid to northern europe was tribal until they came into contact with the peoples of the mediterranean. Africa has a culture problem. You take any human being in the world and put them in a healthy culture they can succeed in life. But if they are stuck in cyclical ignorance and degeneracy then they'll continue to perpetuate their counterproductive lifestyles. Sorry, but no race of peoples is better than the other. We are all a product of circumstance.

[@crawdaddy6969]

What does the world do with people were are only able to breed? To dumb to advance.

[@FailsafeZero]

Imagine being the smartest guy in your village and then some weird looking guy shows up and explains the wheel to you.

[@MrLeadb1]

How would you get your head around that?

[@randomhuman2595]

There were some successful African empires like the Mali Empire, Kush Empire, Ajuran Sultanate

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

Have you seen the African space program? KZbin it. It's utterly hilarious and they're not kidding either

[@Npc1488-wc1kf]

Press X to doubt

[@rhfail4678]

​@@Npc1488-wc1kfwell they were successful against other African tribes😂 that's not saying much

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

Its much like today in post colonialist times where when left alone they fail to progress instead falling back inexorably towards the stone age despite the leg up they were left. I think this is surely down to something inherent, as a sudanese man once said to me, the African respects might and power more than intelligence, he was a teacher trained in the UK, got caught up in the south sudan crisis and was a refugee in the camp i worked at. As he said, until Africa can change its mind about what it respects it will never leave darkness.

[@jimryan8928]

Africa and Africans are a waste of time and money , always were and will always be the same .

[@noturfather1106]

​@@834kolpingthere is often at least one sane human mixed in with these herds of animals, usually there the one being ridiculed and mocked

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

@@834kolping he was working as a caretaker in the facility. He didn't ask me for anything in fairness, plenty more did.

[@elisekuby2009]

Zimbabwe is the poster child for this. When the White Farmers were driven out, murdered, raped, tortured - off the land that they had turned into the 'Breadbasket of Africa' the natives simply reverted to their stone-age ways. Despite being exposed to White Europeans and their work ethic! How do we actually know this? The life expectancy for a Zimbabwen native was 30 when the White Man arrived. It increased to 60 when the White Man was in charge. They are now back to 30 - due to their inherent laziness and, of course, intermittent starvation!

[@secondchance6603]

The video, 'Empire of Dust' here on KZbin shows that exact thing happening. "In all honesty Eddy, you are really lazy." Chinese man telling his honest opinion about African men as workers, providers, producers and leaders. "People here don't have any sense of time. It's hard to adapt to life here. They waste time in almost everything they do. So we go back and forth." Source: Empire of Dust

[@johannesstephanusroos4969]

I think I can offer a minor insight as to why, being an African myself. Trade wasn't done in large scale by Africans, and cattle were considered the greatest value, or currency. Cattle and goats walk by themselves, so trading with distant peoples by boat or wagon wouldn't have occurred to the Bantus and such

[@shaungillingham4689]

It's like when Captain Cook in Australia found the aboriginal people. The Polynesian peoples had their distinct society & traditions, recognised as such, but the Aboriginals were stone age as far as their development was concerned, although now they try to say that their country was taken from them whereas they really never had a concept of a country having made no progress in several thousand years.

[@jeffmoore4153]

Even if they had invented a wheel, they wouldn't know what to do with it.

[@charlytaylor1748]

Not without am axle

[@Peter-oe2fe]

​@@nock389Your people have never 'invented' anything!

[@raimohoft1236]

Put it around ones neck and set in on fire would be the first. 😈

[@carolramsey6287]

There was an old two Ronnies comedy sketch where they are two cavemen joining two stone discs with a straight wooden branch, then Ronnie Corbett tips it up on end and says "tay bul'.

[@RoverIAC]

@@carolramsey6287 the invention of the table was a very big step for mankind, it gave rise for a need to invent things to put on that table. (I remember those two ronnie caveman skits.)

[@markscript5746]

Because the teleport systems in Wakanda made it redundant

[@michaelkennedy6415]

I bought 2 grams of vibranium from a Wakandian immigrant in NYC Central Park over the weekend for $350 and a family sized bag of BBQ chips. Do you think that was a good deal?

[@sammygoodnight]

"...simply to provide their own explanation." An excellent attempt at it was made in Jared Diamond's 1990s book Guns, Germs,and Steel, where geographic factors such as available resources and flora and fauna were quite plausibly put forward to explain differential development between continents. At the time, Diamond's thesis was seen as a way to get around racial explanations. But from what I've heard, his thesis is anathema to today's crop if anti-racists because it leaves no room for inherent white racism as the primary reason for the differences.

[@renedahse6861]

So a book which is not about racism, is racist, because it isn't anti racist? Sounds just about right enough. I considere Germs and steel a great piece of literature.

[@gumecindogarcia1070]

Why is the western world constantly raising money to teach Native people how to raise Native crops on their native soil?

[@cactusman7345]

Can't stab people with a wheel.

[@gipgap4]

😂😂

[@raimohoft1236]

But you can necklace people with it. 😁

[@luckybag6814]

But you can do some damage with a tyre.

[@angelaeastwood3938]

😅 they can pogger people with it. That would round off their evening nicely, no stab wounds left behind make a change for them.

[@gm.sytheus1701]

I asked this question years back when I was a child at school and I never did get an answer and was given detention for racist reasons, which my family demanded the school answer why and again no answer given. It was “racist “then and I don’t expect anything different now.

[@josephberrie9550]

when the truth is racist

[@artseosamhogriobhta]

The greatest distinction between peoples, their temperament and the nature of their conception of civil society is between the farmer and the hunter. Only one is required to have empathy, to apply abstraction to complex systems and to think about tomorrow, next week, next month, next year.

[@panamahub]

But in Wakanda there's so much advanced technology.

[@johnmac8084]

They did invent the wheel - we should be hearing about it in children's books soon 😅

[@TruthTellert63]

Oh, , dey 'nvntd evur'thang -- several of this channel's trol, er, commenters said so.

[@BrickyMindset45]

In the year 1787, upon seeing all of the evidence of the African in Egypt, Count Constantine De Volney wrote: "Just think, that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech!"

[@kaptainwarp]

Vibranium first. Then the wheel.

[@TruthTellert63]

@wasntme7845 Damn historical white-wallers!

[@MarcelNL]

And they were all kings.

[@bigm383]

You may well ask the same question of Australia. The indigenous invented the pointed stick, the bent stick and the hollow stick.

[@Phansikhongolza]

And that alone took 60 thousand years apparently.

[@charlytaylor1748]

And s America?

[@Mike-tb5gj]

aah.....the famous "stick one can never throw away"!!

[@TheGrimReaper9884]

All of which could be handily found, just lying around, provided by nature, lol.

[@deniswauchope3788]

Well said! How neatly you put that, and it's quite true!

[@truescotsman4103]

The archeological examples show that the civilizations that didn't produce a wheel simply didn't need it or wouldn't be able to utilize it more efficiently than other methods due to terrain and other factors. It's not hard to understand.

[@TheBruces56]

I would also ask why the wheel wasn't used in America. Before Europeans arrived the American Indians lived as stone age people. They had no wheel, no metal of any kind, no beasts of burden, no horses, no writing and many were simply nomadic hunter / gatherers.

[@gerrywoody4301]

Having wheels could affect a social security claim

[@lcship1905]

Hehe 😂

[@Fake-moon-landing.]

Haha.

[@totwallybaba]

Good one!

[@SvetlanaVladimirova8590]

Nice one! 🤣🤣🤣

[@craigpimlott204]

They must of invented the wheel to get to where the free handouts were 😂😂😂

[@antonmiles8167]

Too busy inventing the lightbulb.

[@SeaUsername]

lol

[@JangianTV]

Don't forget the Internet too!

[@JH-lf4ql]

Too busy in slavery by Europeans. But revenge is coming.

[@markkennedy2504]

Apparently the pyramids aswell.

[@raimohoft1236]

... and sliced bread.

[@hiramabiff2017]

My crazy uncle lived in Rhodesia/South Africa and his explanation of ALL I needed to know about African culture has stuck with me since I was a little boy..........." If they can't steal it they will try and eat it, if they can't eat it they will break it, if they can't break it they will try and f@ck it"...

[@humpy936]

Yep, muh dik is about all they can think about.

[@jkbrown5496]

I remember Alan Macfarlane talking about how Japan had given up the wheel for many centuries. I forget his reasoning, I believe it was due to having human laborers. But he made the point, without the wheel being familiar, you don't get the gear, sprocket, pulley necessary for industrialization.

[@wjf0ne]

They knew the wheel would lead to carts then trains and the motor car via an industrial revolution and all that accompanied it and didn't want blamed for starting climate change and the need to prevent it with burly cops breaking into your home to check if you have lit those carbon emitting birthday candles on your child's cake.

[@richardwilson6392]

Very good

[@abazely2743]

At this rate everything will be run at the touch of a button eventually..

[@BrickyMindset45]

In the year 1787, upon seeing all of the evidence of the African in Egypt, Count Constantine De Volney wrote: "Just think, that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech!"

[@john-xo9mg]

All i can say is South Africa a country that was once prosperous and rich, and take a look at it now.

[@timstapleman]

Take and how it now, take and how it now, take and how it now, take and how it now, take and how it now

[@HuHWhat-yi8cp]

@John. Through corruption, the infrastructure of S.A. has been cannibalized .

[@john-xo9mg]

@@timstapleman corrected for you mr grammer police

[@josephberrie9550]

same as Rhodesia

[@Appleblade]

Well... Thomas Sowell points out that there are no draft animals in Africa, so if you invent the wheel, you're going to have to pull your wagon yourself, or use human slaves. Perhaps those options were tried? Also, African rivers aren't suitable for moving tradable items... they run dry, or have huge waterfalls. I think, also, for trade you really need fairly close by productive areas that complement each other (grasslands next to croplands next to mountains for mining, etc.). It isn't clear Africa ever had much chance to develop trade routes. So... those are some lines of investigation.

[@rustyaxelrod]

I think the people who lived there then were simply satisfied to have a decent place to chill, food to eat, and a few females to impregnate. If I’m not mistaken they did have beer and kush to mellow out with and drums to get the bass going with a good beat. They didn’t concern themselves with technical stuff for the most part because life was pretty good. If they needed something heavy moved they would just get their women to drag it. There are different types of individuals in all societies and I’m sure there were some thinkers amongst them, trying to invent things to make life better, we just don’t know about them or what they came up with because their ideas weren’t adopted by the general population who were satisfied with how things were going.

[@jamezkpal2361]

No written language

[@d.d.4703]

I toured South Africa once, in the early 1980's. Outside the cities people were still living in mud houses. 'Rondavels' they are called (sorry if spelt wrong.) I was amazed. But so much of sub Saharan Africa is still like it. What strikes me is that native Africans seem unable (or disinclined) to collectivise and organize for the common good and technological advancement.

[@lorenzbroll0101]

I find it odd that if you point out facts like this, then you are a 'racist'?

[@deniswauchope3788]

Native Chicagoans are also unable or disinclined to do that too, but I'm assured it's nothing to do with their race.

[@HuHWhat-yi8cp]

@@deniswauchope3788 Former Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot is now employed by Harvard. 🤠

[@hansemannluchter643]

​@@deniswauchope3788"Chicongoans", typo corrected...

[@kenneybee7908]

I simple truth is they are not a very intelligent people, having worked and lived here for many years I've seen first hand, at first I felt sorry for them not any more the more you help the less they do

[@localreviewking134]

The wheel was first used in Europe around 3500 BC. The earliest evidence of the wheel in Europe is a clay model of a wagon that was found in Poland and dated to 3635-3370 BC. The first wheeled vehicles in Europe were simple carts that were pulled by animals. The wheel was quickly adopted throughout Europe, and by 2500 BC, it was being used in many different parts of the continent. The wheel played a major role in the development of European civilization, and it helped to facilitate trade, travel, and warfare. Here are some of the earliest evidence of the wheel in Europe: Poland: A clay model of a wagon that was found in Poland and dated to 3635-3370 BC. Germany: A wooden wheel that was found in Germany and dated to 3400 BC. Slovenia: A wooden wheel that was found in Slovenia and dated to 3340-3030 BC. Hungary: A clay model of a wagon that was found in Hungary and dated to 3200-3000 BC. Greece: A clay model of a chariot that was found in Greece and dated to 2500 BC.

[@madhavoc1]

How long has that continent been occupied now ?????? 300k Years - ish ? And YET ? NOTHING at all to be proud of .. SHOCKING .

[@luckycruiser]

People living in cool climates were forced to adapt more than people who lived in climates that are constantly warm.

[@lemmykilmister450]

If it wasn't for colonisation, some of these countries would still be proud of the stick they made.

[@TheGrimReaper9884]

what's brown and sticky? A stick.

[@borjastick]

And post colonisation they are rapidly returning to the stick.

[@smogthehorse9409]

They stole sticks from tress.

[@user-yl1xy5eg7b]

Don't forget the cleft stick.

[@bingoteeth2047]

I believe there was once a V8 stick made. Out of production now of course.

[@Clive697]

To be fair, the great civilisations of the pre-Columbian Americas didn't use wheels for transport either, despite having llamas and the like as potential 'pullers' of wheeled vehicles. Then again, they had sophisticated architecture, towns, mathematics and other features of civilisation that sub-Saharans lacked.

[@orlandofurioso7546]

The same the Red Skins of North America ; As far the 18 century .

[@ronnietexan]

They had at least discovered the circle! Sadly, a wheel would be of little use in the rainforests, LOL!

[@dicksmall7976]

It's no coincidence that ancient sites that were built before humans occupied the planet were remarkably similar in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia to those in Mesopotamia, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Tibet, China. Who were 'the Gods' ancient human tribes saw wrote about?

[@Occident.]

Great architecture, but nothing great about their "civilization" . They were cruel and Barbaric, and ritual slaughter of humans was an every day occurrence. The Spanish invaders recorded it all. Mostly Vile people.

[@r1234233]

While the wheel and animal-drawn wheeled transports were usable in the arid environment of the ancient Sahara,[4] and usable in the sparsely wooded, level, arid environment of the ancient Sahel,[5] the environment of the ancient Sudan may have made it rather impractical due to there being a lack of paved roads and seasonal rains.[4] The tse-tse fly belt is also distributed throughout the environment of tropical Africa, which is a region of increased risk for livestock and the spread of disease among livestock.[5] Additionally, compared to the drying environment of the ancient Sahara, use of canoes to travel and transport goods along local and regional waterways, such as Lake Chad, the Niger River, and the Senegal River, may have been a much more efficient means of travel and transport in the ancient Sudan.[4] In the Sudan, the early use of donkeys and horses, as well as the later use of camels, as beasts of burden and riding animals may have also been more suitable compared to their use as draft animals; consequently, their use in the Sudan may have spread rapidly, and their use may have also rapidly displaced the use of animal-drawn wheeled transports in the Sahara.[

[@martinswiney2192]

I think the answer is that anyone in Africa smart enough to invent a wheel quickly loaded up all of their shit and got the hell out of Africa.

[@salerio4876]

Don't need wheels if you're swinging in the trees.

[@user-rk1uz4ur4m]

Colonisation is the excuse,laziness is the rule

[@johnl5316]

Prof Thomas Sowell has a good discussion of this

[@tristamsculthorpe4609]

Not just Africa - all of the Americas and Australia were the same way - Europeans meeting people in the stone age.

[@McPh1741]

It’s not just the wheel, there are no structures in sub-Saharan African that have stood the rest of time. Every culture has something. The Roman Colosseum, The Great Wall of China, The city of the Aztecs, Myan and Incas, Stonehenge,etc…. What is there in Africa?

[@Speedofdark339]

Do you even know what the great wall of benin is or the ruins of great Zimbabwe? Clueless😂.

[@C3N0T4PH]

Are you retarded? The great wall of benin? Mosque of Djenné?

[@LadyThunderbird63]

​@@Speedofdark339the great walls of benin were only earthworks , earthen hills created when the moats were dug , The royal navy only had to fire a few cannons to take it down , bet it made a right mess showering earth everywhere, Britain was building such earth works and moats , bank and ditch enclosures, back in the neolithic period 10000-2200 bc, Durrington walls, Avebury etc, in fact we have earthworks all over britain . Benin wasnt the stronghold you think it was , the obas compound was wood , royal navy lit it up nicely.

[@Speedofdark339]

@LadyThunderbird63 Yeah, it only took several wars of losing to the Edos (in embarrassing fashion) to "light up" the benin walls. But go on and keep on telling me your uneducated

[@Speedofdark339]

The Benin Walls were among the most impressive earthworks in the world. Their sheer size and the sophistication of their construction provided a strong physical barrier against invaders. The walls were not just simple barriers but were part of a comprehensive defensive system. They included strategically placed gates and watchtowers that allowed for effective surveillance and defense against potential attackers. The Kingdom of Benin had a well-trained and organized military force capable of defending the walls effectively. Their knowledge of the terrain and defensive tactics made it challenging for invaders to succeed.

[@mariaefelices6543]

They invented the calculator that could count up to ten ,then looking down at their toes realised this could now go up to twenty

[@angelaeastwood3938]

😅😂

[@Gary-wg2pq]

Why invent the wheel when you can carry stuff on your head?

[@Phansikhongolza]

Only the women carry stuff on their heads. Mind you it's only the women who perform all the daily tasks.

[@smogthehorse9409]

Why invent anything when you can turn up in another country and get it for free .

[@tryhugging212]

That's what women are for!

[@MukoroJr]

exactly😂

[@susanwestern6434]

Recently I noticed an African woman and her three children walking in the direction of the supermarket that I was going to. I don't live in a diverse area. She was carrying a small red suitcase on her head. In all the 30 years of living here I had never seen that before.

[@north-gp3sn]

The answer is quite simple. Climate in Africa requires little preparation. When they were hungry, they chased an animal to death and ate. Harsh northern climates required delayed gratification, planning and hard work to survive. Those who didn't plan died off along with their genes. Tens of thousands of years did the rest.

[@fivebooks8498]

Here in America our government builds them new housing with state of the art amenities yet it’s usually destroyed by them rather quickly. They are given free money, food, child care, education, and preferential treatment for jobs. Yet a disproportionate amount of them for some reason can’t seem to ever be successful. However, Some are able to do well and are successful.

[@davidjeffery828]

One of my favourite African authors was Credo Mutwa, a self-described witch doctor and knowledge holder for the Zulu race. He has written extensively on African history and spirituality, and states that the original rulers of the Bantu people (2500 BC) proclaimed that anyone making innovations (i.e. inventing anything) was to be castrated, disembowelled and thrown to the crocodiles. This must have discouraged the development of the garden shed.

[@silverstreetmoto1458]

🤣🤣

[@bobawatsit]

I guess that put a sharpened stick in the spokes then

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

Sounds like a very convenient excuse for getting nothing done.

[@bobawatsit]

👍@@Anglo_Saxon1

[@3Kiwiana]

Hahahahahah

[@andyxox4168]

Simple, IQ

[@Clive697]

Bingo!

[@paulclothier2583]

Too bleedin' right they are simple!

[@harryselwind]

"Why wasn't the wheel invented in Africa?" Give it time, it will be.

[@dugebuwembo]

Europeans first re-encountered Africa in the late middle ages before they had steam engines or cameras. Many documenting the civilisations they encountered as similar in "progress" as Europe was only just starting to move into the Renaissance and was thus still medieval.

[@markfrancis5164]

Why invent the wheel when you can attack and kill the next village, enslave everyone outside the village and get then to carry you (or at least wipe your arse for you).

[@r1234233]

While the wheel and animal-drawn wheeled transports were usable in the arid environment of the ancient Sahara,[4] and usable in the sparsely wooded, level, arid environment of the ancient Sahel,[5] the environment of the ancient Sudan may have made it rather impractical due to there being a lack of paved roads and seasonal rains.[4] The tse-tse fly belt is also distributed throughout the environment of tropical Africa, which is a region of increased risk for livestock and the spread of disease among livestock.[5] Additionally, compared to the drying environment of the ancient Sahara, use of canoes to travel and transport goods along local and regional waterways, such as Lake Chad, the Niger River, and the Senegal River, may have been a much more efficient means of travel and transport in the ancient Sudan.[4] In the Sudan, the early use of donkeys and horses, as well as the later use of camels, as beasts of burden and riding animals may have also been more suitable compared to their use as draft animals; consequently, their use in the Sudan may have spread rapidly, and their use may have also rapidly displaced the use of animal-drawn wheeled transports in the Sahara.

[@keithrose6931]

​@@r1234233yawn !

[@charliegirl3056]

​@@r1234233They probably wouldn't have fed or watered any animals and they'd have died. Look at how the poor donkeys are treated today in some so called civilised parts of Europe 😢

[@christalmeth613]

@@r1234233 You keep copying and pasting this comment in the belief you have come up with the answer, you haven't you are just making up BS.

[@mjef3695]

Did they invent necklacing? That’s a useful tool.

[@tent7014]

Simon, the reason no progress was made in Africa was because they were over here educating us.

[@TruthTellert63]

No'buh doubt!

[@mjef3695]

Agreed. They’re finally writing books about all their innovations.

[@alanhaynes418]

THAT is the next bit of news that the Woke Media has lined up for us!

[@DaveMcKinley-bm5mh]

And building at Paul's Cathedral, Hadrian's Wall etc etc

[@geoffreyhill9431]

Lol

[@mooganstooker2419]

Let's be clear. It's sub-Saharan Africa that's being talked about here.

[@west66bestx83]

The wheel was widely known as Iarge circular objects. It was the AXLE that was the great advancement

[@Blox117]

Not really the axle but bearings

[@user-cc7hf6hn5d]

Not really. It was the lube to reduce friction in those bearings.

[@LifeisGood762]

Are you sure it wasn't the oil refinery to make the lube?

[@scottdiamond74]

What good is an axle without wheels?

[@bobsyoruncle4583]

the answer is obvious and is the "elephant in the room" that isn't allowed to be discussed or recognized - even to the point that when I identified it in a previous post that post was deleted by KZbin. There is considerable data concerning cognitive intelligence studies across different populations which pretty much explains everything.

[@skepabbas9400]

What did you get in your gcses mate?

[@c2099]

​@@skepabbas9400Why does the ceiling bird sing?

[@countbasiethebicyclemessen4321]

To be fair, parts of Glasgow remained in the Stone Age until fairly recently.

[@johnmclean1046]

A lot more of Glasgow now.

[@dobermankompanie]

The Irish menace

[@dobermankompanie]

Aye back tae Ireland wi the lot of them eh Go HAME

[@jonwoodmass2849]

Rab C Nesbitt and Mary doll agree.

[@anthonycastallano9075]

Not the gorbles ?...

[@scooby1235]

to invent and innovate you need to work together - you need unity, a common goal (and that's me being kind)

[@jacquelinewebster9171]

It was invented but not used. just look at the the Ashanti, Ghana, Songhai, Senagambia, bachwezi,Axum, Kush, Kongo, Kanem ,Merina, Kingdom of Mapungubwe, Benin, Wolof empire, the great Zimbabwe, sokoto caliphate, etc

[@mikejtrott]

Surely the simplest answer is this. Humans evolved in Africa and therefore when they moved out of Africa they had to adapt to a different environment. This in turn lead to innovation and development.

[@Blutteufel]

*led

[@roncouch]

Yes, have often wondered why the interior peoples of Africa failed, on the evidence, to develop their civilisations. The land, if I understand it correctly, is rich in natural resources, which with ingenuity and intelligence could have been exploited to spur and enrich the development of the race. But no, they sat on a goldmine of natural resource and did, essentially, nothing. How could that be? Or, indeed, why was it so?

[@LouisPaquette]

Simple. Centuries of inbreeding resulting in very low average IQ.

[@tonycatman]

Well they did in fact make use of their natural resources. It depends a bit on which resource you are talking about. Gold has been used as jewelry and a form of currency for well over 3,000 years. Early iron smelting started in Sub Saharan Africa - about 4,000 years ago. Copper was used long before Europeans visited. So was Ivory. In fact, the Ivory coast used to be called the Gold coast. It is where Europeans got those products from.

[@jimjones-bk2is]

There was plenty of civilisation. We just didn't want to recognise it as such.

[@Grissbane]

@@jimjones-bk2is but no wheel or inventions

[@jimjones-bk2is]

@@Grissbane so what? Did White people invent the wheel?

[@thpxs0554]

There’s a video on YT of African flying machines, although none of them fly. One of their aeroplane “inventors” made 15 that never got airborne so he started on a 16th, another made a “ helicopter” from shopping trolleys and a lawnmower engine. These are adults, and their creations looked like a child’s crayon drawing brought to life. The book The Bell Curve explains the problem.

[@WhyAreTheyOverHere]

So does a short but incisive essay, "Morality and Abstract Thinking - How Africans may differ from Westerners". It explains the consistent African condition as found throughout the "diaspora".

[@eddiemunster8634]

Meanwhile, thousands of amateur Pilots are building their own planes from kits every year all around the world, some even building them from scratch

[@Surannhealz]

You are talking about the Africa’s NASA videos? 😂😂😂 Some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever seen. It’s like their only extent of aerospace knowledge is from Saturday morning cartoons.

[@eddiemunster8634]

@@Surannhealz the president of an African country said not long ago that they want to develop their space program to go to the Moon, he said they wanted to " go up there and have a look around"

[@donaldramey1896]

Had an African invented "the wheel" it would have been called "da wheel".

[@johnnychinstrap]

This may be more of a geography concern and a question of semantics, but as an engineer I was taught that the wheel was invented in Mesopotamia and the technology quickly spread to Egypt where the technology was used to move large stones from local "quarries". The southern regions were not in need of such tools since they were typically hunters and gatherers. We are taught that necessity is the mother of invention and a wheel would serve little purpose for hunting or gathering, however the potters wheel would. Although other theories exist it is also widely accepted among academics that the Sumerians invented the pottery wheel in 3500 BC before they migrated from Africa to Mesopotamia and have been credited with developing agriculture in Mesopotamia, something they started in Africa in the Green Sahara. Of course i am not expert and did not listen to the entire video and this may have been addressed. Is the point of this video to discredit archaeological evidence, as I found it hard to follow your thesis.

[@Duck_Dodgers]

Mesopotamia invented the wheel it's also the birth place of civilization

[@justbeyondthemath4559]

@@Duck_Dodgers and it is documented that these people migrated from the grass lands of the Sahara. What is he debunking. He is just implying, with very little correlated data! This should be titled debunking fact with supposition. And the pyramids are in Africa I believe and as engineers we still do not know how they did it. This is what happens when we stop teaching facts in school. This video is rubbish mate!

[@superpiginho]

And everywhere in the world where theres a high concentration of africans it starts to look more and more like the savage stone age continent they come from. I guess they are nostalgic and proud of their culture and heritage.

[@maxpaws3977]

They were too busy building the Roman empire, constructing Tudor times and inventing the air. Haven't you heard? It's all over the British curriculum.

[@annemurphy9339]

I’m shocked the British people aren’t standing up to such blatant lies. This is an overt attack on civilization, crediting the lowest IQ group with accomplishments that have zero relation to.

[@mathewgurney2033]

"Out of Africa" theory ? That's one awful unreliable starting point.

[@theotheagendashill818]

The out of Africa theory is a proven fact and it actually supports scientific racism, idk why so many alt-righters are biased against it

[@Peter-oe2fe]

​@@theotheagendashill818Because it is false!

[@user-yl1xy5eg7b]

This Telegraph article from 03.09.23 is interesting, though the establishment is nay saying it: "Discovery of 8.7m-year-old ape rewrites story of humanity". There have been orthodoxies in most if not all academic disciplines. Eventually they'll probably yield.

[@r1234233]

While the wheel and animal-drawn wheeled transports were usable in the arid environment of the ancient Sahara,[4] and usable in the sparsely wooded, level, arid environment of the ancient Sahel,[5] the environment of the ancient Sudan may have made it rather impractical due to there being a lack of paved roads and seasonal rains.[4] The tse-tse fly belt is also distributed throughout the environment of tropical Africa, which is a region of increased risk for livestock and the spread of disease among livestock.[5] Additionally, compared to the drying environment of the ancient Sahara, use of canoes to travel and transport goods along local and regional waterways, such as Lake Chad, the Niger River, and the Senegal River, may have been a much more efficient means of travel and transport in the ancient Sudan.[4] In the Sudan, the early use of donkeys and horses, as well as the later use of camels, as beasts of burden and riding animals may have also been more suitable compared to their use as draft animals; consequently, their use in the Sudan may have spread rapidly, and their use may have also rapidly displaced the use of animal-drawn wheeled transports in the Sahara.[

[@goaheadmakemyday7126]

Nearly every archeologist and historian would agree that Africa is the homeland of humanity. This isn't controversial.

[@dugebuwembo]

Completely ignoring the gestation of Ancient Nubia which is actually older than Egypt in the Nile Valley.

[@CosyBibi]

Why are people in Africa so much better at taking than giving? 🤔

[@drewsbenmad]

They didn’t invent the wheel but they did become experts at removing them 😂

[@themobseat]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX7ddXRtbNh9oZY&ab_channel=PhuckYiu

[@EuroGuy85]

😂

[@AnInterestedObserver]

Spot on, again. Now let's hear the some answers from those brilliant African historians, what fantasies will they concoct this time?

[@Ding_Bat]

Africa has, and always will be, consumers.

[@kylemenos]

There is hundreds of cases where bridges were built in the Congo and other places. They fell into disrepair and so instead of fixing the bridges the people would tie a line across the bridge and try balance all their belongings on their heads while crossing a tightrope. One bridge was recording 12 death a year to people falling off. No one fixed the bridge.

[@russpaxman3660]

I lived and worked in Nigeria in the late nineties and early 2 thousands. I was in Port Harcourt Nigeria , aboard a boat moored in the Bonny river, And watched in fascinated disbelief, as a woman was filling a multi gallon plastic container with river water, approximately 10 feet downstream of a man liberally defecating in the same part of the river? To this day, I remain unable to fathom sub Saharan thought processes.

[@skepabbas9400]

River water can be safe if you sterilise it. Sea water is the one which requires complex desalination facilities which she I reckon she wouldn’t be taken it to

[@rge24491]

@@skepabbas9400 Do you shit on your dinner plates, then wash them and eat of them?

[@jamesthomas7928]

There was and still is a severe difference in IQ levels. Not their fault it's just a fact

[@peterkoch3777]

And we know from Prof. Peterson what low IQ means... the U.S. Army does not draft anyone with an IQ below 85. South Africa is going down and the remaining whites cannot pull it much further and the reigning blacks seem to not understand... ANYTHING. But the west is currently not better, the reigning class (leftists and feminists!!!) seem to have the same problem than the african people: no responsibility😢

[@ammonia309]

Why do you think that is. Everyone likes to point it out as an insult but no one ever cares to explain why.

[@jamesthomas7928]

@@ammonia309 I don't think that there is a reason why - it's just a fact of genetics but it does throw a light on the reason mass immigration from black nations to white

[@dph42]

I read once, I can't remember where, that the Native Americans had not figured out the wheel either until the Europeans got here. When i read it I realized that was why all the movies/shows showed them dragging stuff and people on skids. The wheel was originally invented in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, more than 5,000 years ago and also It is likely to have also been invented, independently in China, around 2800 BC. Why some some cultures stay primative I have no clue.

[@Duck_Dodgers]

You're the first on here that seems to know something

[@WillyEckaslike]

because they forgot to invent the road?