Serious question

[T. A. Gardner]

...and that's always been true, whether it's building an ancient city in the middle of Africa, building a pyramid in Egypt, Asia, or America, or building modern cities across Africa and elsewhere.

There is no evidence that anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa that any substantial and sustained construction of large projects occurred. No canals. No grand monuments. No extensive walled fortifications. No radical modifications of the landscape.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Slavery did not establish the South or anywhere else, anchovies.
I might also point out the South lost the War of Secession.

Correct. Slavery and indentured servitude, along with 'transporting' convicts was all done to supply a basic manual labor force to what at the time were the equivalent of larger corporations (aka plantations) for use in a labor-intensive activity, large-scale agribusiness. There was no other reason to do any of that. The only reason it occurred at all was the indigenous population was decimated first and foremost by disease and secondly by simply not having sufficient numbers to supply the labor.

 

[Jake Starkey]

Listen Obama or to volsrock/T.A./Ultra Maga.

All MAGA sucks, period.

 

[Into the Night]

There is no evidence that anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa that any substantial and sustained construction of large projects occurred.

I already listed some of them. Go back and read it.

No canals. No grand monuments. No extensive walled fortifications. No radical modifications of the landscape.

Yes. Canals. Grand monuments. Walled fortifications...and cities.

 

[Into the Night]

Listen Obama or to volsrock/T.A./Ultra Maga.

All MAGA sucks, period.

I already know you hate America, Stooge. You despise the Constitution of the United States and all State constitutions.

 

[Tbird19482]

I already know you hate America, Stooge. You despise the Constitution of the United States and all State constitutions.

YOU ARE A MORONIC ASSHOLE FUCK FACE.

 

[Walt]

Actually, the lead construction was done by skilled artisans and tradesmen who knew their profession. Statues sculpted from stone didn't carve themselves and some farmer in the off season wasn't doing that. Sure, grunt workers might have been something like that to earn extra cash, but the core of the construction was done by professional, skilled labor.

Farmers in the off season made the irrigation canals, and dams that fed water to their farms. If there was not enough work doing that, they made a pyramid or other structure that took the exact same skills.

It was all about keeping people busy.

There was a problem with the pyramids, that they were bringing a 100,000 people or so together for half the year. After a few generations, they were going to have disease outbreaks. That pretty much doomed large pyramid making.

They continued to make more spread out religious projects.

It is interesting Gardner cannot believe peasants made the pyramids, but can believe slaves did.

 

[Hawkeye10]

YOU ARE A MORONIC ASSHOLE FUCK FACE.

U R almost never helpful is the more important problem.