How Europe Stole The World
Sources for that claim?
Nkrumah Was Right
Superstar
We did. Yes, the slave trade depleted Africa but African armies absolutely began losing to Europeans in the late 19th century onwards.
Motherfukcers got a talent for war.
Those armies had been depleted by centuries of war and internal strife caused by succession issues. Even then the Europeans had trouble putting down those empires that were shells of their former selves. The English and the Ashanti had 5 wars before the English could finally subdue them. The Mandingos just about drove the French completely out of West Africa, but the British saved the French by agreeing to not sale the Mandingos any more arms and ammunition. You already know of the Hell the English caught from the Zulus in South Africa, but they also caught Hell from the Igbos in modern day Nigeria because the Igbos were not a traditional centralized fighting force with a monarch. In all of those instances the colonizers still needed help from indigenous Africans to subdue the groups that they toppled.
Khadafi1982
Pro
I am come from Congo where we have plenty mineral resources. I would have rather wanted to come from a country that doesn't have that much. Putting corruption and political problems aside, It forces the people to go to work to build wealth instead of complaining about what you have buried. Not having resource forced and being in the cold forces you to be ingenious compared when you have plenty. This is a reality that I saw myself.The fact that we lost to a poor, cold, no natural resourced land as badly as we did is embarrassing.
Khadafi1982
Pro
No, Africans lost at the time. Let's say you are part of 10 members family and you have beef with me. If I found a way to kill 3 of yours by ambush, spread rumors among the rest, corrupt a few so your leadership and unity fall apart, you've lost no matter how "unfair" my strategy was. Look how Belgium divided and conquer Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. On this opposite look how Japan back in the 19th century approached the western threat. They realized that they had to adapt and learn fast or they will fall just like the Chinese.
Gritsngravy
Superstar
Capitalism?
How did capitalism help them “steal the world”
And what were everyone else practicing and why would them practices be worst than capitalism
. The past is the past.
This is false lol. It's because they hit the industrial revolution before everyone else. That single event during the 1700s is what led to Africa and Asia (namely China) getting conquered the way they did. Japan got lucky and industrialized during the 1800s after Mathew Perry made them open up.
Gritsngravy
Superstar
A couple of European countries were in they golden ages while everybody else were in the dark ages/transitional period
Right place at the right time
Right place at the right time
Dude said some nonsense and hoped no one would notice. It was the scientific and industrial revolutions that led to Europe getting a head start. You can also lowkey thank Ghenghis Khan for basically being the reason why Chinese technology made its way to Europe (paper, gun powder, compass etc.). Without that tech from the Chinese the printing press wouldn't have been invented in Europe, hence the scientific revolution would have never happened.
UpAndComing
Veteran
Industrial Revolution centers around Capitalism. Weird post lol
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