Academics talk about Great Zimbabwe like it was some sprawling wonder of the ancient world, a city to rival the Europeans, proof of Africa's glorious past But you look into it and it's literally some stone walls with a central court for to put mud huts. Took 300 years to build

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Like god damn dude what a dump. This was built in the MEDIEVAL ERA btw The Fertile Crescent was at this level of civilizational complexity thousands of years prior, this like 10,000 BC levels of complexity, prehistoric in essence. This is Gobekli Tepe level
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Even in the Americas, Tenochtitlan absolutely mogs Great Zimbabwe and it's not even close, despite occupying a region of similar technological isolation and on a similar timeframe. Even comparing the two is an insult to Tenochtitlan, it was truly marvelous
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yeah but it was in Africa, so we should be astounded by their ingenuity obviously. Anything above basic mudhut is an accomplishment to them
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