and your objection was as useless as a nuke on a diesel boat. how about giving reasons instead of complaints.

@kauva Since you've asked then, A) I've studied human evolution for well over Thirty years, including such civilizations as Ancient Egypt, B) Modern History since I was in High School, C) Ancient Languages for at least 25 years, including Cuneiform, Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Aramaic, Latin, etc, etc, and, D) nowhere in either Modern or Ancient Egypt does it state that they saw themselves as ísolated'from the rest of the African Continent, and that's just for starters.

@Triphid your objection is that you havent seen it stated by others? LOL How completely unoriginal.

@kauva I would hazard to say that I may just have read and researched far, far more materials, etc, than you can possibly imagine, my friend.

@Triphid so no one ever comes up with any new hypothesis? I see.

@kauva On that point, my dear Sir, you would about 110% INCORRECT.
But for any Hypothesis to actually become a valid THEORY it MUST be able to stand great and very substantial scrutiny by its peers, have actual empirical EVIDENCE to support it, evidence that is both irrefutable and indisputably solid as well as being able to withstand the same scrutiny as mentioned previously.
Am I getting across to you as yet, Sir?

@Triphid oh ... scrutiny? so they actual list reasons and logic? they don't just say "no one has said that before"?

@kauva Sir, are you really insistent upon 'whipping this dead horse'?

ok

@kauva ??????????

@Triphid I agreed with you. I was done. point made.

@Triphid and you're STILL insulting me? I see you lack the social skills of normal, everyday people so I will put you on the "shun" list.

@kauva Sir, I was not insulting neither you nor any other person/peoples, I was merely suggesting that you may wish to up-grade your 'skills.
But, hey, feel free to put me on your 'shun' list, it's no skin off my nose and you can be most assured that I will NOT be losing any sleep over it either.

well your jackass opinion isn't appreciated anyway so bug off.

@kauva and yours is mindless..lololol, also the "theory" has no conclusive scientific evidence to support your Argument..there are,
however, multiple books on How civilization was formed in Saharan Africa before Egypts rise to prominence.
If you can't take a legit critique, don't post asking for peoples thought on your "Theory".

@Charlene whatever. buh bye.

I will do that. a couple of others mentioned the same. thx!

@kauva also in the beginning of the navigations there were not much difference in technology and military between Africa Europe and Asia.
Muslims traded from the Atlantic to Indonesia. 1500 and something the ottoman empire was giving a hard time for the central European Christians. Even the American tribes beat the Spanish in the first try.
What was really determinant was the fragmentation of Europe, that generated a fast weapon race. There were no 2 powerful African kingdoms close enough, the ottomans and the Chinese were the only big boys in their yard, same with the Inca and Maya empires.
But in Europe, every few kilometers there was an enemy, so you need to improve.
The real technological and productive jump was the industrial revolution. Before that was not that different for real.

@Pedrohbds and how do they get past the ice age? in our last mini-ice age the agricultural beginnings happened as the hominids were driven closer to the equator and turned more omnivorous in those grassy fields. there's solid evidence to speculate agriculture beginning in the fertile crescent given the earliest cities found there. I know a lot of the chinese history and government and biology are kept from western eyes and the Smithsonian has been working with chinese scientists to conduct DNA testing to check for evidence that homo erectus populated those asian plains before homo sapien arrived and to see the DNA percentages of homo denisovan in their population. Plus, if homo erectus populated that area you're talking about a hominid that branched prior to homo heidelbergensis so the chinese could have archaic DNA (lesser mutated mitochondrial genome sequences) which could be helpful in genetic medicine.

oh thats certainly a good point. same for the native americans. the iroquois (i think it was) had a very advanced social system and also recognized 3 sexes as well as maintaining peace among various tribes for some time. I don't disagree with you there about "advancement" definitions. my actual context was trying to determine why african-americans have a stronger affinity for religious zealotry ... which is a racist question itself but the reasons that may be produced qualify the question to have actual significance.

no it's cool. I appreciate your thoughts!! I don't agree with you though about egypt not being isolated. the portion of africa that remained with no cities during egyptian reign proves my point. I believe egypt's proximity to the fertile crescent ties it to my theory.

@kauva hmmm. Let me ponder on it.

Great minds...

That is a great book to read. I also recommend it. I think that we need to also think about different ways that cultures " Advanced" including social and spiritual .

I think what's youre saying here is that those who had to battle for survival didnt develop socially or culturally. I agree with that and accept it into this proposition.

Nope.
Basically 4 seasons is didactic. You have high yield fast growing seasonal crops, even in wild state.
AND there is more landmass in temperated zones, making the exchange of culture, technologies for producing easier with the same climate.
All tropical areas are islands, deserts or north-south oriented, what limits the spread of techniques.
The same crops and animals can be Used from Portugal to China with few adaptations.
In America for example the northern pumpkin and peanud don't grow in South and the southern cassava don't grow well on north.
Also the only domesticated animal was the lhama in the Andes, so not much distance could be made by it.
The tropical weather generates crops that produce the whole year, but it takes years from seed to productive tree.
The temperate ones have 1 or 2 harvest per year.

@kauva I’m not saying that they didn’t develop I’m just saying that that human survival outweighed competition between societies.

thank you. I appreciate that!!

This is a great book. It's also available in cd.