African Inventions

[Theland]

Just been browsing the net to get information about African Inventions.
Found some spurious accounts of how they traded with America befor Europpeans. Hard to believe!
Also ancient wooden tools, astronomy instruments made of string and rocks, and the birthplace of mathematics, hard to believe!
However, where would we be today without African inventions?
Surely life as we know it would not be the same?
Maybe we should All be thankful for African inventions?

[Spicerack]

Slavery?

[Gromit]

Aids?

[Old_Geezer]

Should be thankful for all advances wherever they came from.

[waterboatman]

I agree with og.

[waterboatman]

Slavery didn't come from Africa, it came from Britain, the victims came from Africa.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Slavery didn't come from Africa, it came from Britain, the victims came from Africa//

Waterboatman, I don't know where you get your facts.
Please look at the history of slavery and Britain's involvement with it.

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[Spicerack]

I think he was having a larf, ve.

[waterboatman]

Correct spicerack :o}

[Spicerack]

;-) Hard to tell nowadays, WB.

[waterboatman]

True enough mate. ;o}

[vetuste_ennemi]

"Losing my timing so late in my career."


OK, Waterboatman - got it.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Anybody of my age remember Peter Simple (Michael Wharton) in the Daily Telegraph?

E.g. Dr Spacely-Trellis the go-ahead bishop of Bevindon: "we are all guilty, we are all to blame".

Even in those days the lunacy of the left was outrunning the most desperate efforts of the parodist.

[jno]

Brain surgery, astronomy, art, CAT scans.

What have you invented?

[waterboatman]

I think it night have been a bit too subtle for this time of day. ;o}

Good question jno!

[Spicerack]

https://youtu.be/g0Z-IBZr_L4

Snigger.

[-Talbot-]

Brain surgery, astronomy, art, CAT scans.



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[EDDIE51]

Mankind originated in Africa , so we have the development of the entire human race to thank Africa for.

[naomi24]

Eddie, that's disputed now.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find/

Not sure why you think we should be grateful to any continent in particular though. Evolution is what it is.

[jim360]

Regardless of the age or veracity of Graecopithecus, there's little doubt that African hominids played a huge part in early human evolution, even if they were not strictly "first".

But Naomi's closing remarks are pretty important to keep in mind -- not only with evolution, but also with history in general. People have a tendency, perhaps, to want history to be more favourable to their own ancestors, which is a shame.

[Old_Geezer]

Evolution is not an invention.