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Originally Posted by ches
Europe was far more densely populated than Africa at that time, in fact it still is. Africans didn't lack the ability, they lacked the need. If there had been land pressure, they might have travelled, but there was no reason to. European society was more advanced based on need, not any kind of superior ability.
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I obviously agree that Europe was and is more densely densely populated than Africa, but don't you think you are making excuses for black Africans? I mean didn't blacks in Africa feel the need to advance themselves and their societies? I mean the Oriental peoples had it, the Arabs had it. Whites might have 'needed' to explore and colonise, but what about all the myriad of inventions and advances they made. If I were to list them all i would run out of page. And anyway the original settlement of Cape Town was for economic reasons and for profit wasn't it? Not because of 'land pressure'.
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Originally Posted by ches
My point is that ocean voyaging doesn't require much technology.
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Exactly my point too. It didn't require much technology, and yet it wasn't achieved. 'Land pressure' aside, where was their urge to explore their world and colonise other lands? Beyond Southern Africa, i mean?
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You just don't get far in celebrating a piece of ingenuity brought to South Africa before you get slammed in the face with the injustice with which it was applied.
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I agree with you there, as I said in my above post, and whites should've been fairer and more just.
PS. Thanks for the history lesson
