Comment Removed: Rule 16 - Identity attacks. And yeah, controlled fire might be older than most currently existing civilizations. Not sure you understand how old controlled fire actually is as an invention. We're talking about something significantly older than culture itself, which is 40,000 years old.
Sorry, didn't know that commenting on your cringefest of a comment makes me a Redditor.
And yeah, obviously. Nigeria was smelting iron before Christ. Ethiopia and Nubia were way beyond the discovery of fire without any contact with "the white man's magic".
Comment Approved: I doubt this is disinformation. To be clear, most human encampments had fire before Christ. Iron was actually very capable of being smelted even during the bronze age, but the material for the metal, methods of accessing the metal, refining the metal, and knowledge of the metal was so rare that it simply wasn't used. We do have accounts of European civilizations smelting some iron in the Bronze age, so it's not totally impossible that some African civilizations managed to interact with the metal, even if it wasn't used for architecture or weapons.
Comment Reported for: Rule 16 - Identity attacks
Comment Removed: Rule 16 - Identity attacks. And yeah, controlled fire might be older than most currently existing civilizations. Not sure you understand how old controlled fire actually is as an invention. We're talking about something significantly older than culture itself, which is 40,000 years old.
Damn, never knew I could encounter something more cringe than "BlackGirlMagic".
Sorry, didn't know that commenting on your cringefest of a comment makes me a Redditor.
And yeah, obviously. Nigeria was smelting iron before Christ. Ethiopia and Nubia were way beyond the discovery of fire without any contact with "the white man's magic".
Comment Reported for: Rule 12 - Falsehoods
Comment Approved: I doubt this is disinformation. To be clear, most human encampments had fire before Christ. Iron was actually very capable of being smelted even during the bronze age, but the material for the metal, methods of accessing the metal, refining the metal, and knowledge of the metal was so rare that it simply wasn't used. We do have accounts of European civilizations smelting some iron in the Bronze age, so it's not totally impossible that some African civilizations managed to interact with the metal, even if it wasn't used for architecture or weapons.