You can't steal "resources" from someone that gives no value to it. Even if they did somehow figure out it could be useful, it's not like they would do anything with it.
Yeah this is like the 'stolen wealth' shit. Gold meant nothing to the animal tribes of Central America. It has no actual intrinsic value, it only has value in an economy that can ascribe and translate worth, and then turn that worth into some kind of labor.
Hold on, The Inca and Maya and Aztecs all loved gold. They had very good metallurgry, but very little accessible iron. They (The Inca, at the very least) made do with very good alloys of silver, copper, tin, gold etc. Their bronzes were phenomenal for the time. What is strange to me is that they did very little oceanic exploration, considering the abundance of suitable timber.
i remember some quote, paraphrased here about a european discovering diamonds in Africa, the quote mentions an african child kicking a massive diamond like a hackey-sack. They didnt see the value in it, it was just a rock to them.
Even after the European development in Africa for resources, they still didnt see the value. And now the Chinese are doing the same and facing the same trouble: locals who dont care.
PS: Watch Empire of Dust, its a good documentary about the Chinese resource extraction in Africa. It follows around a PM as he attempts to build a road using local labor from a mine site to a city. The locals just dont care.
WE WUZ GALLEON BUILDERS N SHEEEIT.
You can't steal "resources" from someone that gives no value to it. Even if they did somehow figure out it could be useful, it's not like they would do anything with it.
Yeah this is like the 'stolen wealth' shit. Gold meant nothing to the animal tribes of Central America. It has no actual intrinsic value, it only has value in an economy that can ascribe and translate worth, and then turn that worth into some kind of labor.
Yep. There's a difference between being wealthy and simply having claim to a resource rich territory.
Hold on, The Inca and Maya and Aztecs all loved gold. They had very good metallurgry, but very little accessible iron. They (The Inca, at the very least) made do with very good alloys of silver, copper, tin, gold etc. Their bronzes were phenomenal for the time. What is strange to me is that they did very little oceanic exploration, considering the abundance of suitable timber.
i remember some quote, paraphrased here about a european discovering diamonds in Africa, the quote mentions an african child kicking a massive diamond like a hackey-sack. They didnt see the value in it, it was just a rock to them.
Even after the European development in Africa for resources, they still didnt see the value. And now the Chinese are doing the same and facing the same trouble: locals who dont care.
PS: Watch Empire of Dust, its a good documentary about the Chinese resource extraction in Africa. It follows around a PM as he attempts to build a road using local labor from a mine site to a city. The locals just dont care.