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Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies - WTF fun facts

jillyaintfromphilly

well DUH. a lot of historians are still trying to process the fact that ancient egyptians knew how to build boats, which is ridiculous. why would they not be seafarers and explorers?

youngbadmanbrown-deactivated201

this is not new or surprising information at all. it pretty much day one of any african-american studies course.

the egyptians knew that if they put their boats in front of the summer storm winds it’d blow them right across the sea to the Americas and they shared that with the greeks.

doublehamburgerjack-deactivated

It’s really hard for people to understand that everyone had boats, exploration, and trade interactions without the same level of murder, colonization, and violence that the Europeans did. It’s really hard for people to get that.

cantyousayanythingnew

Well, no people find hard to understand that one of the earliest civilizations could build a boat sturdy enough and reliable enough to cross a 8,766 mile stretch that gave people thousands of years of technological progress later great difficulty.

prokopetz

The notion that technology is a steady upward climb of “progress” is, itself, part of a Eurocentric historical narrative revolving around the tacit teleological assertion that Western European civilisation represents the culmination and endpoint of history.

In reality, technologies are frequently discovered, lost and rediscovered, often multiple times, and frequently in parallel. A Dark Age in one region may be a time of rapid technological development in another region, and it’s not uncommon to encounter evidence of ancient civlisations using technologies a thousand years out of whack with the “proper” order of discovery… where “proper” is defined in terms of the order in which those technologies were discovered in Western Europe - there’s that Eurocentrism again.

I mean, just to give you an idea of how flexible the order in which technologies are developed can be and how ultimately wrong-headed the notion of linear technological progress is, there are Central American civilisations that had indoor plumbing, central heating and hot and cold running water before inventing the wheel. Some of the First Nations in what is now Eastern Canada had sophisticated climate models and reliable weather prediction - including functioning barometers and other simple meteorological instruments - before they figured out metallurgy.

So no, it’s not particularly incredible that the ancient Egyptians had boats far more advanced than they “should” have given their overall level of technology. That stuff happens all the time.

jenniferrpovey

People invent the technology they need. They can even invent a technology, then not use it.

The Inca are often accused of “not knowing about wheels.”

Except, they did have wheels. They just didn’t use wheels for long distance transportation. They had a huge road system. On which everything was moved by pack animals and people. The Inca road is an incredible feat of engineering.

So, why didn’t they use wheels?

Because their land was so freaking mountainous that the road would repeatedly turn into this:

Tell me what earthly use a wheel is when your road keeps having to have steps and narrow bridges because you live on top of a mountain.

But that image shows us what they did have.

That’s a suspension bridge. Europeans didn’t invent those until centuries after the Inca did.

Because when the most efficient route through your home hits chasms, guess what?

You get real good at making bridges!

And when the best way to move goods through your desert homeland is a big river?

You get real good at making boats.

The technology a culture develops and uses is the technology they need. In Europe that was one suite of technology, and because white folk are so dang arrogant, we think that’s the superior means of development. It’s not, it’s just how technology develops in Europe.

alinaastarkov

The Minoan civilisation in Greece, around 2,500 BCE, developed huge technological advancements, including fully operational water and sewage systems, complete with flushing toilets. This would be around 3,000 years before one was invented in England.

Minoan Greece was also a sea power. They had huge fleets of ships, which meant they did a lot of exploration. They also built one of the biggest trade networks in the world, reaching as far as Egypt, Cyprus, Canaan, Syria, the Iberian Peninsula (modern-day Spain and Portugal), the Levantine coast, Anatolia and Mesopotamia (modern-day Turkey, Israel and Iraq).

A volcano eruption on a nearby island, which caused a tsunami, possibly destroyed their sea power and left them vulnerable, which is why most of their technology was lost.

The Late Bronze Age Collapse a few centuries later led to the simultaneous destruction of advanced civilisations in Greece, Egypt, the Near East, Asia Minor, North Africa, Caucasus, Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. This caused a dark age across two continents which created isolated village cultures, and is the reason most of their advancements were lost.

The notion that technology can only advance is some white nonsense.

jenniferrpovey

That too.

(Minoan Crete may have been part of the inspiration for Atlantis).

prismatic-bell

This is also why Egyptians didn’t bother with the wheel* for like three thousand years. What fucking good are wheels when EVERYTHING IS SAND?

But on the flip side…they came up with a way to use water to basically hydroplane those giant stone blocks in their buildings across the desert. Which is a hell of a lot more useful in an unpaved sandy region.

Likewise let’s not forget the Aztecs, who came up with a farming system so efficient (chinampas) that parts of it are still used today and really ought to be revived on a wider scale as part of sustainable farming. And also Native Americans, and I’m using that term BECAUSE it’s so broad: look at tribes across the country and you’ll see something interesting. Iroquois, living in a cold, well-forested, and often icy land, built immovable longhouses—which would survive the bitter northeastern winters. Plains tribes developed the tipi/teepee—while they also faced long, even dangerous winters, they also lived in a place where travel was far easier and the worst of winter could be weathered by heading south. Or down where I live, the Sinagua (later assimilated into the Hopi) built their homes IN CLIFFS. And by that I mean “off the ground, built into the cliff face with adobe.” Aka, some of the best pre-refrigeration insulation against the heat that you could possibly hope for. We still don’t know how they did it, incidentally. “With ladders, dumbass” is an obvious answer in some of their dwellings, but in others it’s not clear how they just….hung over a sinkhole, a quarter of a mile or so above the water, and chipped out the front doors so they had a place to sit while they made the rest. Scaffolds? Very well-balanced rope ladders? Smaller cliffs they chipped off afterward to prevent enemy incursion? We don’t know, but we do know they found a way to make the extreme heat survivable and even sort of a nonissue. They never bothered with stuff like modern central AC because they found a way to let the stone and clay do the job for them.

Technology isn’t always a race. Sometimes it’s just an evolution.

*nominally. We have extant toys from this period that have wheels to make them move.

iplaywithstring

Part of the reason behind this is the Doctrine of Discovery “The Papal decree aimed to justify Christian European explorers’ claims on land and waterways they allegedly discovered, and promote Christian domination and superiority, and has been applied in Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Americas. If an explorer proclaims to have discovered the land in the name of a Christian European monarch, plants a flag in its soil, and reports his “discovery” to the European rulers and returns to occupy it, the land is now his, even if someone else was there first. Should the original occupants insist on claiming that the land is theirs, the “discoverer” can label the occupants’ way of being on the land inadequate according to European standards. This ideology supported the dehumanization of those living on the land and their dispossession, murder, and forced assimilation. The Doctrine fueled white supremacy insofar as white European settlers claimed they were instruments of divine design and possessed cultural superiority.” (emphasis mine)

In order to take lands for colonialism, all evidence of things that would classify as “sophisticated technology” had to be destroyed, ignored, forgotten, etc. A “civilized” society couldn’t be claimed, and so the explorers would dismantle anything that counted as “civilized”.

Our modern ideas about everywhere BUT Europe being “uncivilized” are part of systemic racism and white supremacy that started over 500 years ago.

sigridkaffen

There’s stuff we’ve discovered that we don’t know how to make or what it was for. Like, we have people living in space. But there’s these batteries (!!!) discovered in Iraq that have scientists going “Yeah, well, isn’t that a Thing?”

mehloveshorror

The state of the world is incredibly shitty with COVID-19 and all the things that happened in 2020. But what I want to talk about is the fucking Anti-Terrorism Bill in the Philippines.

While the current government may say that they aren't following in the footsteps of the Marcos regime, they are negating themselves with their actions. After all, the President has talked about declaring martial law. There is also the controversy on the franchise renewal of ABS-CBN, which is a media and entertainment network. Now there is the Anti-Terrorism Bill.

The Anti-Terrorism Bill is made to "prevent and stop" terrorist attacks. It targets people likely to perform acts of terrorism or people who are likely to join terrorist groups. The problem here is that it allows the violation of the Constitution and Human Rights by state institutions (like the AFP - Armed Forces of the Philippines, and the PNP - Philippine National Police). Any suspicion and it could leave you at their mercy. Especially because the definition of terrorism is up to them.

This means that we would have our hands tied and our mouths sealed shut because who knows what their definition would be? Protests? Different opinion than that of the government? This sounds like what transpired during the Philippine Martial Law in the Marcos Regime. Information blackout and the fear of speaking up because of the law and military.

Let's say the government isn't following the Marcos regime, they are still fucking up the state of the nation anyway with their actions and we need to change this for the sake of the country and ourselves.

History is there to teach us the mistakes of the past. However, history repeats itself. When will we end the cycle?

We need to speak up. We need action. Spread information. Stop misinformation. Speak up before we can't speak at all. I hope we all do our part. #junkterrorbill

P.S. I hope this was written well. If not, well, the message is there anyway. If there is anything you wish to correct or to add, message me.

@imaturedebdeb, @kalinka-moya, @smoldiabetic, @adrielleswift, @hyliantimelordin221b, and anyone else, please help spread the word. We all need each other's help.

amlugnis

Please please don’t ignore this. Raise awareness, send emails to our government with these emails;

- [email protected]

We as Filipinos cannot actively protest against this because then we would be considered terrorists. I cannot voice this aloud because there is a HUGE chance they would hunt me down and K1LL me. The PHL government does not listen to PETITIONS instead EMAIL the senate and the Malacañang!