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Comments by "" (@NoahBodze) on "Roman Scholar Describes Ancient Africa // Pliny on Source of The Nile and Aethiopia - 1st century AD" video.
@grapeshot Not “kingdoms.” Mud huts, slaves as not just the only economy but literal currency, and cannibalism isn’t a kingdom.
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You get the feeling he didn’t really go, just partied in Alexandria and then just made everything up before the report was due.
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How do you think the knowledge remained with the Romans? Books are helpful, but the storage of human experience in the form of knowledge is what made Rome advance. Obtaining and passing useful information requires living longer into wisdom.
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Baghdad didn’t have “wisdom.” They had expatriate Christians who ran from Justinian. Persians and Arabs were the most savage races on earth. It’s just because they’re poor now and killed all the tens of millions of slaves that no one bothers them for reparations.
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Why do you think this drivel made it to the channel and not what blacks really were doing in Africa, which is just killing each other, eating them or selling their captures as slaves to Arabs. Just because you don’t know this doesn’t mean others don’t.
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He isn’t exactly a reliable narrator.
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