Why were the Europeans the ones who discovered the world and

Indigenous Americans were basically a Stone Age people by the time Columbus and other explorers got there. It must be hard to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a canoe.

there is essentially no point to technological progress if you live in a warm climate

>>2607364
European is such a broad term. Only the British, French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese did the discovering.

All other Europeans didn't do shit.

>>2607388

Pacific islanders pulled off some pretty wild shit with pretty primitive tech.

>>2607394
Yeah good job.
What about all the Italian, Norwegian and Russian explorers?
You are an idiot.

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>>2607394
t. Anglo

only peoples with recorded history discover places when they manage to record the new discovery

>>2607388
The North Americans maybe, the Aztecs had metal working

>>2607395
Pretty underrated story. Visited Peru a few years ago and my tour guide was a native but looked like a Pacific Islander. He mentioned this story to us and told us about this. Fucking based lads.

The rest of he world are inferior brainlets compared to Europe. It goes without saying.

>>2607364
Competition.

>>2607364
Every civilized people already knew the existence of other before "Europeans discovered the world".

The missing links were the Sub saharan african tribes and the American Indian tribes, and some pockets of uncivilized areas around australia.

Europeans only "discovered" the "world" because dissolution of Roman empire removed them from the world stage. Trade still happened across other parts of the world.

>>2607395
Traveled ocean currents in rafts/canoes, eventually getting as far and remote as Hawaii.


Hawaii's population was so large that battles there between Polynesian tribes could reach as large as 15,000 people on each side... Polynesian history is interesting, there needs to be more threads about it.