Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Top 11 Historical Misconceptions." video.

Europeans COULDN'T colonise Africa until the late 19th century. The disease barrier of Africa, particularly malaria and yellow fever (another mosquito borne disease) kept the Europeans to the coastal regions of Africa, particularly tropical Africa. The Atlantic triangle African slave trade operated from the coast of Africa for centuries (the African slaves were brought to the ships by other Africans who had enslaved them in the first place). The late nineteenth century brought better medicine and improved railways technology and telegraph to Europe (as well as better guns admittedly) which gave the European sufficient tools to enter the hinterland of the African continent (and return alive in the majority of cases), also which the presence of a minority of Europeans there was generally viewed by the African tribes and chieftains, not as an act of conquest in most cases, but as a trading opportunity for technologies (particularly the guns), so they could go at their own long standing tribal enemies.
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While historical dialogue does relate to communication and culture, and we of the present have the advantage of having some idea of the past, while those in the past have no idea of the future and would find our modern ideas repellant and strange. Past societies were hierarchical, but not as ridgedly alluded to as this narrator has hinted it. Revolts did occur and many were serious challenges to the established order, like Watt Tyler's peasant rebellion in 1381 England, demonstrating that the social elite by no means had status and the economy of the country settled for decades and centuries.
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