Thread 214660260

How come literally nothing happened outside of Eurasia until recently?

Were they retarded?

>>214660260 (OP)
things did happen in other parts of the world they just didn't write it down

>>214660627

i.e. they're retarded. Understanding the value of writing something down is the first step towards becoming a human being.

I just came down from my latest EU4 bender and you had to go and post this

>>214660627
>>214660654
>>214660662
Tickling your horny holes with my mustache

>>214660260 (OP)
When the oldest and most reliable record of the far east is from a guy who lived in Venice, yes. They can't even read writings from before the 20th century let alone anything prior to the 16th before China even had a radical system. There's so many dead languages in that area too, like Khitan script or Tangut. Learning to read Buddhist texts also involves learning an entirely new language, one that was somehow more primitive than Demotic.

>>214660260 (OP)
Chimor controlled the coast, but not the highlands (Cajamarca kingdom) as it’s shown there, they were allies though.

The Zarumilla River, which divides Peru and Ecuador today, was its northern frontier (as shown there), though it isn’t unreasonable to think that they controlled both sides of the river.

t’s also where Peru’s extremely dry desert meets Ecuador’s green coast, which then turns into the highest-precipitation rainforest in the world. And marked the frontier between larger, more centralized states in Peru and the way more independent and smaller polities of Ecuador. Roughly, it was also the division between central and northern Andean cultures. Chimor was already a kind of buffer zone, but further north was even clearer. It was also the northern end of the Inca coastal royal road, as well as the earlier Chimu road that was later integrated into it.

>>214661771
The southern frontier is still somewhat debatable. Manchan in the Casma Valley was unmistakably a Chimu city, but further south the Chimu don’t seem to have imposed their architecture; instead, they controlled peoples who maintained their own local styles.

Paramonga (in the northern part of Lima’s region) was under Chimu control before the Inca took it and built unmistakable Inca-style structures (though in adobe) on top of the ceremonial fortress. In the valley of Lima (central part of Lima's region), the town of Carabayllo still spoke Quingnam (the Chimu language) at the time of colonization, so the Chimu might have had a foothold in the small but heavily fortified Lima valley before the Inca conquest, or those could have been mitma (resettled people) sent by the Inca Empire. In any case, it’s unlikely that they controlled Guarco (capital of the Chuquimanco kingdom) further south, as was believed like a hundred years ago. They might, however, have been allies, considering how valiantly Guarco resisted Inca imperialism in contrast to the Chincha kingdom, which received the Incas with open arms, even though archaeologically Guarco and Chincha were basically the same people.

>>214660260 (OP)
imagine a world without Europe, no concept of civilization

>>214660654
>Understanding the value of writing something down is the first step towards becoming a human being.
You think everyone wrote everything down or that it all got preserved? Literacy ratea weren't even high until very recently in human history.