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food for thought II

this morning we had the seminar an hour about the differences between the cultures of Africa and Europe. While our teacher has been theorized that there in the development of any society, there are three stages. The first stage of the Homo Faber would say the people who produce the primary stage. The second stage would be the decisive discoveries that a huge increase in productivity of a society with the result. That would be the secondary level. Finally comes the tertiary level that an abrupt increase in communication with the result. These jumps occur cyclically, that is, by major discoveries, and inventions, made an abrupt development forward, then up to next big "discovery" of stagnant or moving toward the next jump.
In Europe, marked the jump to the secondary level by the industrial revolution. should come through the invention of the steam engine is to increase production, etc. The consequences of each are known.
This jump to the secondary level, however, was in a sense the trigger for the colonization on a grand scale, on the one hand the demand for raw materials and, above all, to rapidly rising markets. In addition, the European powers were now simply able to annex foreign territory, as it now had the necessary military potential. This jump
European powers at the secondary level had therefore to interrupt the natural development of African societies to follow, you might say.
However, the question arises whether the African societies have ever developed, even if there had been no colonization by European powers. Respectively. development under European standards. Although one European and African development probably can not compare with each other. Probably it is the first place the big mistake - that the development of African societies is compared to the European, or that it is assumed that there is everywhere a development in the same way.
would therefore see it very interesting how African societies developed without European influence and whether they had done after one, with the similar scheme in Europe.