If colder winters select for higher IQ and as a result a more advanced society, why where the great empires all in a more mild climate. Rome, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians or Syrians all way more advanced than the northern tribals. It's only been about five hundred years the northern people's have done anything but the cold winters have been in effect for tens of thousands of years.
Can someone explain?
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Sure. You're a dumbass. In warm, fertile climates niggers (brown eyed people) fuck and eat. They need zero planning to survive. Niggers never invented the wheel in Africa, and niggers in the Americas never domesticated animals.
In the iron age colder climates couldn't compete with the numbers of southern kingdoms. All of the equator advantages quickly went away about 1000 years ago.
It's not COLD climate, but rather HARSH climate.
Sub-saharan Africa is literally paradise in it's unaltered state in terms of resources
colder winters selecting higher IQ is just plain bullshit. Are inuit 120 IQ on average? Also, tropical climate are not so heaven-like, they are full on dangerous animals and the soil is unfertile.
shouldn't it grow tropical fruit?
Niggers never invented the wheel. All Mexicans have at least 4% African blood. Almost none have European blood. Forcing niggers like you to learn Spanish doesn't alter your DNA.
nigger like you
I'm not a member of the nigger eyes race. If you have brown eyes, you're not even human.
Maximum tier happening chimpouts to ensue
the best climate for humanity in general, to build civilizations is temperate.
the north is great for learning to survive. beauty is developed in the north but you cant make great cities in there.
True nigger from spanish slave trade always where fuck by mexicans
It's not exactly cold climate; it's harsh climate. The scarcity of resources demands the delaying of self-gratification for prolonged periods, which inevitably selects intelligence throughout the generations.
The Indo-European ancestors of the Persians, Greeks, and Romans were from the Western Eurasian Steppe, near modern day Ukraine. Their cultures are mostly a product of the Proto-Indo-European civilizations.
The North Africans were surrounded by Desert, with little specks of abundant resources throughout it.
It's just a meme.
That's the first non retarded answer. Thanks.
Niche selection does not make the environment a fruitful one. Limited resources limit develpoment in other ways. The selection was based on a survivial strategy and kin bonds.
It's very simple
when life is harder,
like in northern barren regions
only the clever and hardworking people survive
when life is easy,
like in warm and fertile regions
everyone survives
user, the cold winter thing is only partly true. Environmental determinism involves more than just coldness.
Also, the Roman Empire occurred due in large part to the superior organizational abilities of the Romans.
By "Greek" you mean the Diadochi empires. These were due to the superior organizational abilities of the Macedonians.
The Persian Empire was a result of the superior logistical abilities of the Persians and also the power vacuum caused by the collapse of the Median Empire.
The Egyptians are a long and complex story that you're probably not interested in.
And I am not sure what you mean by "Syrians"
Are you talking about the Mitanni or the Phoenicians or something else?
Inuit live in a stable climate as well, user.
It is having to learn to deal with changes that stimulates growth.
1 I have gray eyes
2 the Chinese invented the compass and the paper, I doubt that an animal like a horse can, you can do more idiotic reasoning ?!
The Syrian empires. First standing professional army in history. None of these people's faced the hardships of cold and long winters like the northern tribes did. As a result the northern tribes should have higher IQs and more organization. The reality is the opposite.
All Meds were cold-selected to some degree, that's why they all have so much paler skin than Africans. Also, navigating a complex society and engaging in constant wars also provides an upward pressure for IQ.
Chinks were too dumb to use the sun and the stars to navigate
the cold winter theory was an extension of the original theory that seasonal climates, cold winters hot summers, produces a need to think into future. later down the line some idiots thought that cold winters selected for higher intelligence.
>Rome, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians or Syrians all way more advanced than the northern tribals. It's only been about five hundred years the northern people's have done anything but the cold winters have been in effect for tens of thousands of years.
if we accept the premise that "more food = more civilization" then we can assume that France would out compete Egypt, and France did out-compete Egypt but not until the medieval era. this is because the Nile valley was more fertile and more accessible (i.e. no massive forests) than Gaul was. Gaul (France) had the capacity to produce more grain than Egypt in total but it took a longer time to reach peak production because of all the natural barriers that were in the way.
Cold winters theory is not solely based upon how cold the winters a population is subject to. The cold winters theory is based upon the observation that populations which evolve in climates with predictable and harsh periods select for intelligence. Constant harshness does not select for intelligence as there is no need for future planning, only physical prowess.
Ancient Mediterranean peoples evolved in an environment with predictable harsh periods of winter and moderate summers where agriculture was possible. The aspect of predictable harshness selects for intelligent, future oriented people.
Since people cannot undergo physical metamorphosis adaptability in problem solving was selected for. As you point out, there needs to be enough novel challenges in the environment to push it through.
Inuits never have to worry about their crops going mouldy or tilling the soil or mining metals. Everyone in Northern Europe will have some grasp of fishing on an ice pack however.
>The Syrian empires. First standing professional army in history.
At first I was like
>wtf is he talking about?
Then I realized you were talking about the Assyrians. Technically, Sargon of Akkad had the first standing army in history. As with all things...
Yes, the Assyrian Empire was a result of the Assyrians superior logistics, organization, and siege-works in an era where direct assault was rare.
Some might argue that the Assyrians benefitted from the collapse of the Bronze Age but anyone could have benefitted. They just had superior organizational abilities.
You failed to account for suprenatural sources of knowledge
>Thinly veiled med supremacy thread
Why not just post your usual med-bull shit and be done with it OP? You obviously don't care for an explanation.
Here's a counter question. Why are the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, or Syrians no longer kings of the world if what you are implying is the case?
The great achievements come when the northerners migrate south and find easy living, allowing them to dedicate time to building civilization instead of stockpiling winter supplies.
Research it and you will notice it. Interestingly, they all usually seem to come from the same general regions.
absolute retard if you unironically believe this
and written language, don't forget, not one among them, conceived of written language, and now we should give our women to them ?! why ?
false theory
jakob the scientist accidentally created de white devils.
It's not only winter but season
Northern agriculturalists have the highest biological IQ's of the major continental racial groups, but they lived in harsh climates with poor soils and could not support high population densities. The huge populations of the Fertile Crescent meant that they had more intelligent people overall even though their average intelligence was lower. Northern Europe did not really become civilizationally competitive until the heavy plow was introduced in the middle ages and allowed them to utilize their difficult rocky soils.
en.wikipedia.org
Because these spots were where the largest ability to cultivate food was, as well as regional transportation and trade building them up over time.
mercurynews.com/2017/06/05/75-of-black-california-boys-dont-meet-state-reading-standards/
They just need a few billion dollars more. Stop school vouchers.
>It's only been about five hundred years the northern people's have done anything but the cold winters have been in effect for tens of thousands of years.
>Can someone explain?
Read HBD Chick.
It's not cold winters.
It's church-mandated outbreeding (ban on cousin marriages) plus the manorial system of land management.
The former disolved tribes and ended inbreeding for Europeans. The later selected for future planning, social trust and altruism.
And it's not 500 years, it's 1500.
>duhhhhhhh I'm dumb and don't know history
The world was coming out of an ice age. Notice how civilization constantly moved northward as time progressed?
I think the idea is we adapt, we don't exceed generally. So adapting to cold winter means we exhibit a level of functionality that can survive in that harsh environment. But what we think of as greatness happens when incredible ability meets an environment and exceeds it, turning the excess to the complexity of great societies.
So nature only develops the ability to produce excessive greatness when that excessive greatness is required to just eek out survival, And that excessive greatness only manifests when it meets a easier environment where survival is easy and the excess can be turned into esoteric things like knowledge, art and architecture, and so on.
Of course once we get that easier environment, that excess greatness is no longer needed, and the rules of r-selection gradually favor more fecund degenerates, and the ability to produce greatness ends up somewhat fleeting as a result.
If you wanted to prolong it, you will need to evolve a society which purges the r-strategists as a matter of course.
Europeans cluster more tightly than any other racial group, even across countries. Marrying your cousin wasn't uncommon at all until very recently.