A question I’ve found fascinating for years.
I think weather comes into the mix. In warm weather you don’t need to be as industrious. Although...the Eskimos haven’t had the most advanced civilization either.
Also Christianity has opened many a mind to value progress.
So much time and effort has to spent on simply surviving in arctic conditions, it's not surprising.
LOL I said that in class once yrs ago...
“I think weather comes into the mix. In warm weather you don’t need to be as industrious. Although...the Eskimos haven’t had the most advanced civilization either.”
Many years ago I developed a theory that explains the differences in accomplishment between blacks and other races. In Africa you can live like your ancestors did thousands of years ago, there is no selective pressure to change your way of life. You can be a half wit and still be able to get water from a lake, build a mud hut, and plant a few seeds. There is little or no drive to make things better. As the more industrious africans moved north they encountered different environmental conditions, that forced them to adapt to survive. New technologies and skills had to be developed to cope with the harsher conditions. The more intelligent and those who persevered survived. The slow witted and lazy died. Over thousands of years it can make quite a difference.
The lack of drive to improve their living conditions is illustrated by a show that mentioned the large number of africans killed by Crocs while trying to get water or doing laundry. Its been going on for thousands of years and little has been done about it. If white people lived there every dangerous animal for 100 miles would have been killed centuries ago, or someone would have drilled a well for the village.
It was warm in Carthage and Babylonia and Syracuse and much of Persia
I agree on the surface it looks better