Britian became an empire because of its 4000 miles of navigable rivers that are accessible from the sea. Jared Diamond overlooked the fact that Africa has very few navigable rivers with access to the sea. It has nothing to do with it running latitudinal. The DRC is 10 times the size of GB but they're landlocked.
Too funny. Britain became an empire because they conquered many places.
Incorrect. Buying higher and selling lower is the most important part of trade.
Apparently that's what the banks did with treasury bonds.
No. That occurs in aftermarkets.
Have you ever heard of Wells Fargo?
We did not. A prior generation did, long ago.
The oldest known ship is about 10,000 years old.
goat, you don't get to say "Again, ..." and then repeat something that has been debunked. That's called "chanting" and isn't rational; it's mindless.
You can't debunk something with shit you pull out of your ass. Every empire had access to the sea. The British islands were invaded and occupied by Norse boats for almost 300 years. Genghis Khan never make it to Britian because he didn't have a boat.
I'm glad you are finally learning this.
You are pivoting AGAIN. Your point was that empires needed to trade via the ocean. I exlained that empires conquered others to become empires. I gave you examples of empires that became empires without trading across the ocean. This point has ended. Hopefully you have learned something.
Hold my hand and I'll walk you through this. Empire needs a big purse to build the ships required to conquer faraway lands. Britian had the East India Company and the Dutch had the Middle Passage. Whoever controls the oceans controls the world.
Much appreciated. Let's use the Inca and Aztec empires as examples.
Did the Inca and Aztec empires form by Incas and Aztecs getting the big purse to build the ships required to conquer faraway lands?
What did the Incas and Aztecs have?
When did either the Incas or the Aztecs control the ocean?
Both the Incas and Aztecs had a feudalism system no different than Europe. They had boats to transport goods but no horses or carts. Incas deny building Machu Picchu, so that means an advanced civilization was there before them.
They had kayak equivalents. They could not transport anything very far along a coastline and they couldn't trade intercontinentally.
Who are you claiming can speak with the dead? None of the Incas that built Machu Picchu are alive to deny it.
... or it means someone is aiming for a sizable "research" grant and a book deal.
Older, yes, but not more advanced. The Aztecs conquered the Mayas and absorbed EVERYTHING into their own culture and made it their own.
They could go out about a mile or two and fish.
Incas and Aztecs were like Middle Age Europe, whereas Mayas were a more advanced culture similar to Mesopotamia. Compare Maya science to Incas and Aztecs and it's easy to see why you didn't mention them.
The Maya were not more advanced. I don't know what part of "The Aztecas absorbed everything about the Maya as their own" that you don't quite grasp.
Once again proving you don't know what you're talking about.
I know what I'm talking about. I don't agree with your delusions, and you are full of them. I can't think of anything that you have gotten right.
There's more to empire than conquering. This leads us back to Marx. Humans deserve better, we need to be part of the conversation on going to war. You believe space aliens would land on Earth to conquer us, whereas the science shows that space is too vast and intelligent life is too short for the odds of hooking up with any other life in our galaxy.
Our physicists have been bought off by Jeffrey Epstein and the 'intelligence' community. When was the last big advancement in physics? All the money goes to proving the universe is finite. Einstein is rolling in his grave. He realized Special Relativity was wrong so he threw it in the trashcan and replaced it with General Relativity.