Comments by "lif3andthings" (@lif3andthings763) on "History Debunked" channel.

  1.  @vumba1331  No it wasn’t. It was created by the Shona people stop spreading those racist theories.
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  2. No it was connected to the Indian Ocean trade network. I believe the polity was called Mutapa. The population of Southern Africa was quite low and Great Zimbabwe the city by itself had a population of 20,000 which was pretty high. There are more than 200 ruins sprinkled across that area.
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  3. That ruin on the hill is only for the king specifically. But at its height it was home to 20,000 people which was quite a lot for the region and the time. It is only one of 200 ruins.
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  4. Edo the capital of Benin was home to tens of thousands of people.
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  5.  @HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb  Why are you so dishonest?
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  6. American was and kinda still is a White supremacist country why the fuck would they care? They were the majority. And most of the them probably dont even remember they were enslaves by the romans. Or if there are any Eastern Europeans that they were enslaved by the Arabs. But now they are just white.
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  7. @MadManRob1 He ignored facts and downplayed Great Zimbabwe and got shit on by the guy in the comments lmaooo. He knows that Great Zimbabwe was a city but he just doesn’t want to admit it. Why did you reply then??
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  8.  @vumba1331  Its been proven false over and over again. What you are saying was used as an excuse to portray black people an incapable of civilization by the Rhodesian government. Archaeologists and Anthropologists have proved that it was created by the Shona.
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  9.  @princevimbai1  Great Zimbabwe the runis specifically had a population of at least 20,000 at its height. It is only one of 200 stone ruins across the land.
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  10.  @gavinjames1145  You say Sub Saharan Africa then talk about only Ethiopia and the Swahili Coast. No group on this planet has progressed by themselves to reach were we are today it took the contributions of hundreds of millions of people across the world from different time periods as well. “Centuries of Contact with Europeans” What specifically was the forms of contact? Slave trading and colonization. Why speak as if the Islamic world came up with nothing of their own lmaooo. You are making way to many generalizations. The Greeks are different from the western and northern europeans. Their history is more Mediterranean then just European. Is being able to create guns making it past the iron age? Which many west Africans could do. Is Ethiopia building a railroad and using modern weapons to beat the Italians not make them past iron age. The Khoisan are some of the oldest people on Earth and migrated from East Africa before Homo sapiens reached Europe. West Africans also have some Neanderthal dna since there was a population in North Africa.
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  11.  @gavinjames1145  Oral tradition are surprisingly reliable. A group of Aborigines had a story of an island sinking in the sea off the coast of where they lived turns out it happened tens of thousands of years before. The myths that made up the creation myths of the bible had been around for thousands of of years before. The same unreliability can be applied to written History as well. Though Written makes it easier to catalog.
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  12.  @gavinjames1145  Only some of them but you can find similarities with myths and reality all over the world. Reality is what they are based on in some sense.
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  13.  Deez Nuts  How many of these slavs descendants of slaves in America right now? How long ago was this?
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  14.  @aafgahfah  arbitrary markers especially writing.
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  15.  @martinpospisil3747  Im positively sure that many people of different ethnicities contributed to our modern recording studios lmaoo.
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  16.  @martinpospisil3747  Europeans invented music? Crazy
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  17.  @gavinjames1145  The Bantu were from northern Cameroon they moved south due to desertification and the lands that were populated by hunter gatherers proved much less of a challenge.
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  18.  @briansanchez2322  Because they didn’t have their rights for another 100+ years and the scars still reverberates through society especially since the war ok drugs?
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  19.  @HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb  Is a population of 20,000 not a city to you?
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  20. 1,000 to 3,000 years? The fuck are you on about? The largest gap it was ever at was probably 100-200. West and East African gunsmiths could build muskets and Ethiopia was about industrialize.
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  21.  @sirrathersplendid4825  Thats how technological diffusion works. Africans did have the tech to create guns since they made them by reverse engineering European ones. That is like saying “Europe couldn’t build guns before China created them” no fucking way bro. I think you are vastly overstating your points. You also realize that West Africa reached the iron age before Europe right?
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  22.  @sirrathersplendid4825  Thats literally how development and advancement work. Through the connections of different people across the world. Am I just supposed to say no to this? Its just the basics of human society. The transferring of ideas east to west is what led to Western Europes growth.
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  23.  @ario4795  Whats crazy is that the most popular music genre’s in the world right now were created by African Americans with African roots.
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  24.  @detectiveMM  Wtf is your objective analysis that classical music is better? More people listen to the genres I stated. So I could then say that it is greater then classical music just by that fact. Those two genres and a few more are the forefront pf modern culture. How many people still listen to classical music?
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  25.  @brucesmith1544  Slave trade hadn’t even kicked into full gear at that time. It was just starting out.
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  26.  @nihilistcentraluk442  They had all of that lmaooo. The Mali Empire? It was way stronger than the Incas and had better technology.
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  27.  @richardwebb9532  Muslim and Non Muslim Africans sold African to Arabs.
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  28.  @chrisruss9861  Lmaoo bro. The city had a population of between 10-18 thousand people and was only one of 200 ruins. This guy just tried to downplay them exponentially. Also why does the wheel matter when it comes to complex societies?
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  29.  FIGHTFANNERD9  Colonization? European take over of the Indian Ocean trade?
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  30.  @Jedi_Master_Pikachu Have you heard the kora? lol
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  31. At that time a population of 20,000 and in that area is definitely a city
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  32.  @gavinjames1145  The fuck are you talking about? They had been Iron age since 2,009 BC. Bronze was hard to come by so they needed trade routes across Africa to come by it.
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  33.  @gavinjames1145  What is beyond the iron age to you? In the middle ages?
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  34.  @gavinjames1145  Nubians are Nilo Saharan and originated to the south of Egypt and were there neighbors for thousands of years lmaooo. Like I said in the other comments Bantu people went south due to climatic changes and the lack of settled societies in their way. Many people in East Africa are a mix of Cushitic and also Nilotic with Bantu people. The bantus of South Africa mixed with the khoekhoe and san peoples and is evident in their genetics and clicks in Nguni Languages. The bantus who migrated into the Congo mixed with the Pygmies populations as well.
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  35.  @gavinjames1145  Most Africans countries populations are very multilingual. West Africans And East Africans went to Egypt. More specifically for Bantus Kanem Bornu had good connections with Egypt.
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  36.  @pachebal  There was also goods from India and China there. Great Zimbabwe was part of a polity called Mutapa. They traded with the Swahili who were apart of the larger Indian Ocean Trade. The ruins are the products of the Shona people.
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  37. That ruin on the hill is only for the king specifically. But at its height it was home to 20,000 people which was quite a lot for the region and the time. It is only one of 200 ruins.
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  38.  @georgepreston3953  In favor of forced colonial labor not slavery at ALL LMAOOO. Many places around the world didn’t practice slavery.
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  39.  @bollox679  When did he espouse Afrocentric thoughts? Bro just shut the fuck up the wheel wasn’t invented in Europe either stop with the dumb fuck points. What made the wheel a prerequisite to civilization in the first place?
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  40.  @HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb  Bantu migration?
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  41.  @HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb  Southern Africa was mostly hunter gatherers before the bantu migration thats why it isn’t as old. In South Africa though lidar might have located cites built by the San.
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  42.  FIGHTFANNERD9  What? This guy is just wrong.
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  43.  @cliftontorrence839  It was created by the Shona people archaeologists and anthropologists have proved this. Stop with misinformation.
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  44.  @temur9746  You mean by Mali? Songhai came centuries after. Please look up what the Tuareg look like lmaooo. Mansa Musa made Timbuktu into the legend we speak of today omaooo.
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  45.  @temur9746  Timbuktu wasn’t even the greatest city. In the Mali Empire. OP is a little off.
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  46.  @hersirivarr1236  Almohads only conquered modern Mauritania. West Africa had its own shit.
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  47.  @martinpospisil3747  Look up malian kora music
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  48.  @detectiveMM  Greatness is subjective and objective. Since the genres I have talked about are the most popular and have impacted people the world over. I could say something like rock or hip hop is greater than all of classical music.
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  49.  @3Kiwiana compared to Europe and Asia absolutely not.
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  50.  @greeng313 The entire population of Africa was 220 million in 1950 compared to 550 million in Europe alone this was the case for a good deal of recent human history.
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