Yeah...
Ancient China
Mayans
Vikings
Mongolian
Nubian
Roman
Indian
There's a bunch of them
I really don't understand the obsession with Egypt beyond people being shocked there was an advanced ancient civilization in Africa...
People have made simple and easily explained shyt about Egypt into a pseudo science.
Let's put it this way....
If you have been defeated by the Assyrians, Persians, Nubians...
Ruled by Nubians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs...
And they even been a colony...then how advanced are you...like they were a colony...and most of their history is being defeated and ruled by someone else...
Like the original people of Egypt don't even live there no more...that's how advanced they are. Arabs live there now.
Like I said...the Ancient Egyptian "OMG How could they do this..." status
Is fueled by racism and a Eurocentric view of the world...where only White people actually did shyt and everybody was waiting around for White people to tell them how to do shyt...
So they stumble upon Egypt and is like..."We didn't have to tell these people how to build abuilding or dress a wound...look at how advanced they are..."
Ancient Egypt ain't all that...they are one of the biggest losers in the history of the world.
And the Viking founded like half of Europe...and then they chilled out...that's a win.
I even think there are West African kingdoms that were better than Ancient Egyt...
Human beings are conquerors...we create cultural products to conquer other people...that's like the main point of culture...
You think the USA spends trillions of dollars on military and entertainment for kicks...
Hollywood is one of the biggest unintentional military arm of the USA....
You think the USA lets all these Chinese and Indians come here to study for the sake of multiculturalism sake...
You think the USA developed a highway system just so people can drive their cars...
Superior weaponry and warfare tactics is part of culture...
I mean like...there's a reason why Japan went from the type of people to invade your country and rape the women and impale them through the vagina to making cartoons and emojis and sushi. They got fukked up and have to exert their power in another way.
Egypt neighbors and contemporaries spent time learning how to fight and military tactics so they can conquer and expand their influence. Egypt spent their time making sure the tombs of their rulers looked pretty and now Arabs show them off to tourists.
How advanced are you really when you couldn't provide safety and security for your people and you spent your existence glorifying yourself because you thought you were a god and you had to out do the last motherfukker who built his fukking city of pyramids?
Egyptians could stack sand on top of each other but couldn't make a sanitation sewer system for their people but the damn royal dead could have a bathtub...
The pyramids are for burials, ceremony and decoration. We know this...
And we do have the ability to create the pyramids...the same way they did.
They used sleds, pulleys and water....and used the stars to align the pyramids....
How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built?
People only act this way about Ancient Egypt because it is in Africa...and people think African descended people are dumber than everybody else...even other Black people....
So when the world finds the one thing that is comparable to any ancient European society...they go ape shyt...
Also people seem to think that human beings are smarter today (actually as a species we are dumber and getting dumber by the decade) so anything that took some basic math and engineering to make back in 200 BC, people act like it was magic.
Breh...we got people that think the pyramids are fukking nuclear reactors. Like they were doing nuclear fission. Some even think fukking aliens came taught them. That's how Eurocentric people are....
If your civilization is so advanced and you have all this technology but you lose almost every military conflict you get in and spent most of your existence as a colony or usurped...how advanced are you really?
Advanced societies have a capable military. Advanced societies have stable governments.They just don't spend their time reading and studying and looking at the stars and shyt....
Egypt never had an empire cause they were too busy getting their ass handed to them and having civil unrest because they were getting their asses handed to them. Then they'll have to fight back and get their nation back...and after that...they'll start building shyt. Then they'll get their ass handed to them...come back and start building shyt.
So they got gobbled up by every single group of people that decided to expand their influence...
It was a decadent society...none of this new agey shyt where they were just so spiritual and in-tune with the universe..nah they were a decadent society ruled by a series of people that spent a lot of time flaunting their wealth at the expense of everyone else and their nation.
If you seriously look at Ancient Egypt and their contemporaries...I am talking about Romans, Greeks, Nubians, Assyrians, Persians...the people that were around them and interacted with them...besides all the glitzy shyt that the Ancient Egyptians like pyramids...was Ancient Egypt really that advanced and far out like people think they are...
Were their system of government advanced...no...it was a theocracy...the most backward form of government
Was their legal system advanced...no...
Was their military advanced...not really...their enemies had a more advanced military..
Was their economy advanced...no...it didn't even extend beyond their region
Ancient Egypt was just rich as fukk and they made fancy shyt...they were the ancient version of Dubai and has the same appeal as Japan today for people.
The Assyrians were more advanced than Egyptians...
The oldest temple on Earth is goblekki teppe in modern day turkey. It predates the pyramida by like 6000 years.
So what?
The pyramids are a precise instrument that gives you the exact dimensions of planet Earth..
face 'true' north.
They are in alignment with the constellations etc etc.
12,000 years ago humans were supposed to be hunter gatherers, they weren't supposed to be constructing megalithic structures and temples, but that's apparently what happened. That's way more impressive than the pyramids being being built only 5,000 years ago.
Also, most of the associations with the pyramids and constellations are exaggerated.
They are not. You cannot exaggerate something like that.
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