Ask freeper **PIF** all about the gleaming African coastal cities of yore, packed with running household water and sewage systems, and how those cities were sooo far ahead in tech and organization than coastal European cities of the time..!
The Portugese first on-scene were BEGGING to just stay forever, it was so cushy..!
You might say Africa of the time made them all feel like KANGZ..!
He can even point out BOOKS that told him so!
Ask freeper **PIF** all about the gleaming African coastal cities of yore, packed with running household water and sewage systems, and how those cities were sooo far ahead in tech and organization than coastal European cities of the time..!
The Portugese first on-scene were BEGGING to just stay forever, it was so cushy..!
You might say Africa of the time made them all feel like KANGZ..!
He can even point out BOOKS that told him so!
Hey, no one said they were “gleaming” !!! I merely said they existed. And yes in 15th century Portugal and Europe bathing, running water and indoor plumbing were unknown. Compared to what life was like in Portugal at the time, life was better in those cities. I said those coastal sub-Saharian cities, not the whole of Africa. Civilization in Europe was struggling to rise; it was a very unhappy period - some were even anticipating the End of the World in a year or two. The African costal area civilizations were on the way down from their heights a thousand year before when the Phoneticians and Mauritania were; Islam was pulling apart every fabric, but some still remained. It was one of those times in history. A clash. The Portuguese aided the slavers by introducing firearms and that was the last straw for any possible recovery.
Evidently, some must think that the 15th century Europe was magically replete with cell phones, saunas, TVs and the like, in short, not much different than today to imagine they were “cushy”. And they were Portuguese navigators and explorers, not “first on-scene”. Gezz!
I gave citations which document what I said, but were never read by the interested party. Everyone is always asking for sources - and here’s the fallacy on display, give them and the questioner ignores them, going right on with whatever rant. Apparently, some in their blind hate of black Africans and their history even denigrate books which document that history. Naked hatred and bigotry on display - I thought those things only happened on liberal sites.
And by the way, I do believe it is Freeper etiquette to ping the person you are mentioning by name, especially when slamming with a thinly disguised ad hominum.