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Africa's Great Civilizations on Amazon Prime is not so great
Henry Louis Gates Jr. spends a lot of time covering North African and Ethiopian achievements that westerners identify with. No issue there, the pyramids are a marvel but there's a lot of tallying of the art and architecture relatable to indoor humans. It takes great, advanced societies to live alongside predators. The discovery of Madagascar is on par with the moon landings - not mentioned at all. West African rhythms, the seed of all enjoyed music composed after the baroque era - silent. Pre-modern discoveries are almost uniformly born of a civilization's local environment but camel domestication needed to cross the sahara the only mentioned example. If you want to highlight Africa's success, you need to admit that history and anthropology are inseparable fields.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. spends a lot of time covering North African and Ethiopian achievements that westerners identify with. No issue there, the pyramids are a marvel but there's a lot of tallying of the art and architecture relatable to indoor humans. It takes great, advanced societies to live alongside predators. The discovery of Madagascar is on par with the moon landings - not mentioned at all. West African rhythms, the seed of all enjoyed music composed after the baroque era - silent. Pre-modern discoveries are almost uniformly born of a civilization's local environment but camel domestication needed to cross the sahara the only mentioned example. If you want to highlight Africa's success, you need to admit that history and anthropology are inseparable fields.
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