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I do not quite buy your arguments, and I am skeptical of several claims that you make. Without specific sources, it is more difficult for me to contest them, though I will not requ…

Aksum was more east of Egypt than south, right? And part of it lay in the Arabian Peninsula.

In some ways I agree with you, but I also think that the other commenter indirectly might uncover some insights. For instance, Australian Aboriginals mighy have historically both; …

While many Amerindians had impressive achievements considering their almost complete isolation from the rest of the world, your claim seems misleading. > At its apex around 1100 AD…

I wonder if one could group Central American and North-Central-American civilizations and peoples into two gross and very approximate groups: 1: Sedentary farmers like Aztecs and p…

The destruction during the Spanish conquests of the Aztecs and others was terrible. It was also rather disorganized initially, especially due to the huge delays regarding communica…

> East Africa practiced stuff like homegardens which can be complex, multi-layered agroforestry systems that usually surround homesteads. I've heard the Hausa traditionally did som…

> (something which the west has only relatively recently come around on). I am not quite sure what you mean by this. Is it consistent with this? > From the 9th century to the 11th …

Is that vaguely related to slash-and-burn? Did it also change the ecological system of Australia? Some articles said that Aboriginals might have caused the extinction of a lot of l…

> throughout the Americas you see really complex polycultural farming traditions including the famous chinampas. Interesting. Do you know of anything somewhat similar for Africa, i…