At what point in history did western Europe have knowledge of

>>2527145

>How many years of progress did the Western world have on pic related?

depending on the specific places and cultures compared, roughly from 10 to 10 000

>>2527155
>10 000
I find that very hard to believe, anon.

>>2527226
They didn't even do agriculture till comparatively recently, what kind of tech do you expect from pastoralists and hunter-gatherers

>>2527145
Depended wildly

Somewhere like Timbuktu, Djenne, or Niani would have a few centuries of differences

The pygmies are another story

>>2527238
>didn't do agriculture
>pastoralists
Animal husbandry is part of agriculture m8

I don't want to come off as /pol/, but West Africa has always been insignificant in development. The "Great Zabobu' or 'Great Dindu' Empires people name-drop were memes hyped up halfly by Afrocentrist, and the other half by cucked liberals appeasing them. Mansa Musa bankrupting Egypt story was probably just a tale recorded by some Arab chronicler that got it from first-hand sources that weren't probably particularly accurate and likely uninentionally over-exaggerated the details (just like how Herodotus mostly came up to the conclusion that Xerxes army must've been 1 million big if they depleted entire economies of towns they came by just to feed them, and consumed entire smallish lakes they came across; or later writers who relied on primary sources from the battles that Alexander the Great fought in, that listed the enemy side being 100,000+).

The Madison project puts the GPD per capita (in 1990 Geary–Khamis dollar) at the following nations: Belgium 1,589, Germany - $807, Central-North Italy $1,363, Netherlands $2,662, Sweden - $761, GB $1,082, Portugal - $1,164, Spain - $892
Keep in mind, $1,000 USD in 1990 int gk$ is $1,846.62. There is at-least 20 modern Sub-Saharan African nations that going by the same exchange rate, match that and/or less.

In 1600, just Russia, France, UK, Spain, and Germany made up 23-26% of the world's GPD (you probably get up to 27-30 if you count the rest of Western Europe), the next 70% was China, India and Japan, and the rest of the world was 4-6%. They also were estimated to have a combine population of ~69 million, or 10.4% of the world's estimated 660 million population at the time of 1600. Africa (as in, all of it) was estimated to consist of 17.3% of the world's population in 1600.

Sorry kids, but it seems like Africa was always shit.

>>2528499
*puts the GPD per capita at 1600 the following nations

>>2528499
>>2528506
Also, >In 1600, just Russia, France, UK, Spain, and Germany*

*I meant to include Italy

>2528499
>I don't want to come off as /pol/, but West Africa has always been insignificant in development
ok
>The "Great Zabobu' or 'Great Dindu' Empires people name-drop were memes hyped up halfly by Afrocentrist, and the other half by cucked liberals appeasing them.
L. O. Fucking L.

>>2528499
>Sweden - $761
>Germany - $807

the snownigger memes where true

West Africa c1500AD was equivalent to Mediterranean Europe c. 500BC, give or take.

>>2528499
You're not answering the question. At what point in time did Europe match the development of Africa 1600?

>>2530011
Development isn't one straight path, the roads to development mostly just converged at the industrial revolution before that it's difficult to compare, only when there's widespread trade you can.

>>2530037
No, but you can still compare two distinct cultures' scientific advancement and social cohesion.