And yet when the Europeans came....the indians were technologically inferior...which was the biggest reason they lost the continent to the more technologically advanced
Europeans....
So my statement remains uncontested...there is no single scientific, sociological fact, report,study or report that sustains the contention that the indigenous people that were subjugated by Europeans were "weak and stupid."
Is this the reason you are attempting to reframe that earlier statement???
I didn't say they were weak....they would have to be tough to survive the winters here in the Midwest....and on the coast....and not stupid.....just technologically backward....I mean...they had been around as long as the people in Europe, and yet did not have wheeled transportation, sailing ships, gun powder, sophisticated metal working, modern (for the time) farming techniques...the knowledge of stone work.....
And that is why they lost the continent.....why they didn't have the same level of technology as Europe....you answer that.......same as the Japanese...they were still in their Feudal era when they were forced, at canon point to open their harbors.......dittos AFrica.....been around as long as the Europeans....technologically backward in comparison....you explain that........
You piggy backed off of the poster that stated every culture subjugated by Europeans were weak and stupid. You changed the gist of the question and I asked you why.
In terms of technology the people of Africa had farming techniques specifically for the soil conditions in Africa, they also practiced metallurgy before the Europeans they also has sailing ships. The one area where Europeans dominated was in the practice of colonizing other continents and enslaving it's people, for that reason alone Europeans dominated other people.
do you realize that the slaves Europeans brought to the New World were captured and enslaved....by Africans.....and sold to Europeans......and no...small boats with one limp,sail are not the same as the ocean going sail craft of Europe.....or the metallurgy that produced swords, cannon and metal plows and any other number of sophisticated metal work....like time pieces.....
The Europeans dominated colonization only because they were technologically superior to the cultures they found.....
Sometimes the ignorance on this board is mind numbing...
You do realize the difference between the practice of slavery in Africa and America don't you????
Africans had no knowledge of the brutality and violence of chattel slavery and they certainly did not practice it, that was the sole domain of whites...or didn't you know that???
Slavery in Africa, the institution of slavery as it existed in
Africa, and the effects of world slave-trade systems on African people and societies. As in most of the world, slavery, or involuntary human servitude, was practiced across Africa from prehistoric times to the modern era. When people today think of slavery, many envision the form in which it existed in the United States before the American Civil War (1861-1865): one racially identifiable group owning and exploiting another. However, in other parts of the world, slavery has taken many different forms. In Africa, many societies recognized slaves merely as property, but others saw them as dependents who eventually might be integrated into the families of slave owners. Still other societies allowed slaves to attain positions of military or administrative power. Most often, both slave owners and slaves were black Africans, although they were frequently of different ethnic groups. Traditionally, African slaves were bought to perform menial or domestic labor, to serve as wives or concubines, or to enhance the status of the slave owner. Traditional African practices of slavery were altered to some extent beginning in the 7th century by two non-African groups of slave traders: Arab Muslims and Europeans. From the 7th to the 20th century, Arab Muslims raided and traded for black African slaves in West, Central, and East Africa, sending thousands of slaves each year to North Africa and parts of Asia. From the 15th to the 19th century, Europeans bought millions of slaves in West, Central, and East Africa and sent them to Europe; the Caribbean; and North, Central, and South America. These two overlapping waves of transcontinental slave trading made the slave trade central to the economies of many African states and threatened many more Africans with enslavement.
Slavery in Africa
Now, if you want to made the fool in your other uneducated assertions let me know.
We can go over agriculture, metallurgy, etc.