The Mayans had mastered water pressure and had fountains and toilets as early as 750 AD. Aztecs had running water and sewage.
The Victorians In the mid-1800s were dying of cholera because they just dumped their raw shit in the river Thames. They wouldn’t shower for months at a time because they were afraid of the polluted water.
Incans had created aquaducts in the slopes of the vast Andes mountains to reach the emperor, cities and farmers who used agricultural terraces.
Mayans, Aztecs, and Incans were far more advanced than the savage Europeans.
My history Professor snapped on a class of 200 - 300 students at once because they kept writing in their assignments that Natives to North and South America were less advanced and less civilized than Europeans. She didn’t even bother to say how racist it was past one comment, she then literally listed all the things they said in their assignments and debunked them. In sum, Europeans came to the Americas because their civilizations were dirty, underdeveloped, starved, plagued, impoverished, and war-torn. So, the whole foundation of the idea of the supremacy of Europeans/white ppl and their countries and culture was all fabricated to justify their greed and the reality THEY needed resources, refuge, and knowledge to support themselves and their willingness to commit genocide, instigate conflict, and enslave to do so.
Europe legit spent most of human history as a backwater of civilization, and the only way they got “ahead” at all was through genocide, slavery, and biological warfare
My ancestors in the Philippines were already well-versed in poetry, math, sexuality and gender equality, and agricultural technology. Then the Europeans arrived and put Christianity. They insisted that the highly-advanced Tagalog Kingdoms were barbaric that even our own elementary history teachers say the same white-washed concept. It hurts me whenever I remember, because now we’re undeniably backwards compared to these European countries because this Christianity thing is limiting our national behavior. And these very Europeans have the audacity to say, “Why are you still too Christian? Haven’t you realized yet that it’s bullshit?” Like, fuck you, man.
