There may be more, but Australia, Sub Saharan Africa, and the population of early North America are among areas where the 3 Rs never made much of an appearance......in a fashion we generally consider 'civilised'.....Not sure the wheel showed up either in those places.......
> There may be more, but Australia, Sub Saharan Africa, and the population of early North America are among areas where the 3 Rs never made much of an appearance......in a fashion we generally consider ‘civilised’.....Not sure the wheel showed up either in those places.......
Neither the wheel nor metal nor a written language found their way to New Zealand, yet nobody would seriously argue that the Maori didn’t have a highly developed, rich and sophisticated society that focused on what they did very, very best of all: making war on each other and on other peoples in the region, hooning around the South Pacific in very seaworthy handmade vessels, cooking and eating people and committing centuries of detailed history, bush lore and navigational know-how to memory.
I have met Maori who can recite, word-perfect, their genealogy from today back to 900 AD, complete with cross-references to other genealogies, witty asides and interesting anecdotes about various of their ancestors. This recitation is called their “whakapapa” and as you can imagine it can take a very, very long time.
Not many folk from Mensa could easily do that.