• StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    If you look at pre-industrial societies, then Africa is on par or even ahead of Europe, examples would be the Umayyad Caliphate, Egypt, the Malian Empire, the Abyssinian Empire, the Kongo, and the Zanzibar Sultanate.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      The Mercator projection has done a great disservice to people's casual understanding of how big some African nations/empires truly were.