>>14792531I was on a /his/ thread yesterday about African history and it was full of copes about why Africans didn't make anything nice or useful.
A real exchange from that thread:
>Real question for this thread: How plausibly could Musa have created stoneworks for Mali? Why did his top Arab architect recommend mudworks? Was that architect really a Jew? He certainly had the wealth.>The next good source for stones is probably up there in the Atlas Mountains over a thousand kilometers away. Random pebbles from the river won't do, you can move a city but you can't move its strategic location.>Bros there are shitons of rocky hills and small mountains in Central Mali>Not all rocks are the same kid nor are they easy to extract. Also stone is fucking SHIT in hot climates and anyone familiar with them would know it.>Which is why the Egyptians and Indians built with it>Because Egypt and India had way more people to do this infrastructure projects and Mali is right in the Sahel. >I assure you Egypt's population was much less, while accomplishing much more.It's the same kind of reasoning they use when talking about why niggers didn't have the wheel.
>they didn't have it because they were in the middle of a jungle/desert and it didn't work there>other jungle/desert people had it though>yeah but Africans didn't need it because X reason>other jungle/desert people used it despite X reason>it's different in Africa because of Y reason 