why africa and middle east were always backward?

reason why africa and middle east were always backward

  • they are inferior races

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  • they are stupid dogs

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  • they need to be slaughtered/ wiped out and their lands to be resettled by the west

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Well, most civilizations are built on the advances of others, put people only seem to single out Islamic civilization for it.

Yeah. Rome for instance enthusiastically borrowed good ideas from everyone else.

Personally, the Muslim world is a close second to my favorite empire (the ERE/Byzantine Empire), and I consider that the only modern state in its day. The Muslim world was a worthy rival.
 
Yeah. Rome for instance enthusiastically borrowed good ideas from everyone else.

Personally, the Muslim world is a close second to my favorite empire (the ERE/Byzantine Empire), and I consider that the only modern state in its day. The Muslim world was a worthy rival.

They were busy being awesome while Western Europe was a backwater!
 
As a sidenote, Egypt is technically in Africa and is considered part of Middle East. Mesopotamia is part of Middle East. And these were the places where most of the basic features on which much later civilizations, including our current global, mostly western-based civilization, developed from.
Sure, writing was invented independently elsewhere, and Ancient Middle Eastern societies also borrowed from other area (the wheel, for example, IIRC), but hey, they have been among the most advanced parts of the world, tech-wise, for some MILLENNIA.
The backwardness of the Muslim World in general face to the West was not particularly evident until the seventeenth century. I'm not so expert about non-Muslim Africa, but there are some very respectable civilizations there as well, and since quite a longtime.
 
I'm very surprised that this has not been locked yet. By the way , the Egyptians were certainly way more advanced as of 1000BC than the proto-Celts that populated north-western Europe.

As for Africa below the Sahara , Guns Germs and Steel give a rather decent explanation of the reasons behind their technological lag behind the Fertile Crescent/East Asia and later , Europe.
 
In Africa the climate is the main reason most african cultures stayed technological(!) backward.
In the Middle-East the reason those nations are backward now has its roots in the beginning of the second millenium AD. Growing religious intolerance of the muslim population/rulers in the region was the beginning of the end of their technological/cultural advantage. Religious dogmatism in the Ottoman Empire was the end.

BTW the poll is very racist!
 
In Africa the climate is the main reason most african cultures stayed technological(!) backward.
In the Middle-East the reason those nations are backward now has its roots in the beginning of the second millenium AD. Growing religious intolerance of the muslim population/rulers in the region was the beginning of the end of their technological/cultural advantage. Religious dogmatism in the Ottoman Empire was the end.

BTW the poll is very racist!
Actually, the relative decline of the Middle East can be half-blamed on the potato. Simply, the Middle East doesn't have the Arable land or resources that Europe does, and thats part of why they "fell behind" so to speak. Intellectual inwardness is overrated as a cause of Islamic decline.
 
Actually, the relative decline of the Middle East can be half-blamed on the potato. Simply, the Middle East doesn't have the Arable land or resources that Europe does, and thats part of why they "fell behind" so to speak. Intellectual inwardness is overrated as a cause of Islamic decline.

That then brings in the issue of the lands where the potatos came from. Thow it did change from north to south and with all the mountains.
 

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Folks,

If the poster has already been kicked, you really do not need to keep reporting the thread.

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