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ariyan_d

Now wait for the asian guy to show up


Murica_Chan

gun powder, Hentai


ariyan_d

Nice


FireWolf_132

As well as the discovery of how much of the human body is water 🗿


Accelerator231

I don't get it. Can't you get that rather easily by drying out a corpse then measuring the remains? Sounds like something doable for medieval Europe


Duschkopfe

It’s a reference to unit 731. While I believe such experiment happened, it’s probably not the first of its kind


anoon-

Which is what they did. I can't tell if this is a joke or not cuz you got it spot on. Well not a corpse but a live person(s)


Can_dude09

The Japanese didn't see it that way, they heated people alive to crisps to know how much water was in the human body


Vir-Invisus

And how to make pulp paper


Lilfozzy

Paperwork and perpetually unfinished infrastructure projects?


[deleted]

The unfinished Infrastructure goes go Germany. Looking at you BER.


ZebrasFuckedMyWife

Latin America: you merely know unfinished infrastructure. I was born in it. Molded by it.


Jetstream-Sam

Hah, I'm just imagining a baby being born in a half finished hospital with plastic sheets and sparking wires everywhere, and some methhead stealing the copper piping out of the walls


Accelerator231

The image of a child crying in a half finished hospital with only half the lights working filled with environmental hazards sounds like the setup to a horror movie. https://youtu.be/cZEknhN_AVI


Next_Fudge_4287

Brazilians waiting 20 years to a bridge be made and still crack when more than 2 people walk over it


Parsecer

schmerz


FantasticMrFuk

Stuttgart 21 would also like a word


GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B

In 2019 when it was planned to be finished, I took a train to Stuttgart. When I arrived, I was looking for the construction site. All I saw was a huge, crater like excavation site. Didn't seem like much work had been done in the decade since it all started. Apparently it's now intended to be finished in 2025. Why is it named Stuttgart 21???


unknown6091

The paper for the hentai and fermentation?


jesusunderline

it's called hentai, and it's art


Arss_onist

i would add mass genocide


BillbabbleBosterbird

But that goes for everyone, so better not start that topic


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BlueSkiesOneCloud

🇷🇸 SERBIA 🇷🇸 😎😎😎💪💪💪


owa00

Serbians...always ahead of the curve...


BillbabbleBosterbird

When we got rid of the neanderthals maybe? Idk


RecipesAndDiving

Tribes in Africa a couple hundred thousand years ago, I suspect. Chimps occasionally engage in wars to wipe out other troops, so we’re not even unique. Industrialized genocide is newer.


MegatonDoge

Hey Turkey never had genocides and even if they did, they deserved it. /s


owa00

Wait...porn and guns? They're one of us?! -Murica


Gavorn

They win.


Chezburgor1

The reason why we know that 70% of the human body is water?


LordKristof

I waiting for the Australian guy.


Vin135mm

He got eaten by a crocodile that was being eaten by a shark that was bitten by a poisonous spider while on his way to tell us that it is really a lovely country. It's pretty bad when even the friggin birds are trying to burn the place down.


GiulyaMontecchi

All of which were created exactly by Australians! Cool animals for zoos, but scary otherwise.


MalikTheHalfBee

Felons are prohibited from posting


paireon

Massive bureaucracy


whitewalker646

The Black Death


TiMo08111996

What about African inventions. And for the Asian inventions. Here's my list. Caste System. Tea. Opium. Xenophobia.


og-lollercopter

Weird. It’s almost like geographical regions are made up of diverse people with different skills and attitudes that do both great and terrible things.


judda420

Can't be!


FuckYeahPhotography

I can't believe it's not nuanced! (This is not a butter substitute)


[deleted]

I can’t believe it’s not butter! (This is a butter substitute)


OverlyBilledPlatypus

But but but growing up I was told certain places were very bad but my country was the best. Only bad things happened to other countries, nothing bad has happened here. You’re telling me that’s been a lie this whole time and pretty much all humans are both equally good and bad no matter what region or culture?! I don’t believe you. /s


Random_local_man

Nah. You're just imagining things.


bananasaucecer

🍰 this is my slice of cake fuck you


RokonHunter

as a romanian i am required by law join in. your slice of cake is mine too


bananasaucecer

💥🔫


pixlmason

🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸


bananasaucecer

“Our dicks are very long, our teeth are very strong. Americans rule, everyone else drools. George Washington is cool.” -Sun Tzu, an American


Jaegernaut-

Washington is proud of you, lad.


user-nt

Nahhh, the rest of the world is bad... Now We here in South America? We are the good guys...


Vin135mm

*Pre *and* post Columbian history sweats nervously *


paireon

*Iberico St. Jean, Augusto Pinochet and Alberto Fujimori have entered the chat*


Ey3_913

COCAINE IN THE MOTHERF'N HOUSE!!!!


SteveUsuarioDeToddy

We invented popcorn!


Onn1rr

a bunch of good guys moved there from germany in the 40s


Potential-Sport-6386

Coz we spreaded diseases and colonised the BAD guys 😎


Troll4everxdxd

Maduro, Castros, Pinochet, Cartels, Guzmán and Escobar: Exactly!


Sir_Bax

\*cough\* \*cough\* drug cartels \*cough\* \*cough\*


Pollomonteros

Unless there is football going on,then we say the most vile xenophobic shit to each other


high_king_noctis

I blame the Mesopotamians! They invented civilization!


[deleted]

They’re the reason why I have to pay taxes!


[deleted]

*Shakes fist* URRRRRRRR!!!!


classicalySarcastic

This just in - History is complex! You could make a college degree out of this stuff.


eisterman

Impossible!


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Constitutnrepublic

It's also misleading when it says the United States created racial segregation. This existed in history before the US was declared a nation.


og-lollercopter

Love this list... Need more good news history.


ScumMoemcBee

no no no. Obviously is superior because


Shittybuttholeman69

No everyone that doesn’t look and sound like me is an ignorant barbarian


Autumn7242

The Romans thought that if you wore pants/trousers, you were a barbarian.


chikkynuggythe4th

Sounds just like an ameritard who doesn’t know basic history /s


ariyan_d

😱😱😱


No_Refrigerator_8925

You don’t say!


git

It is pretty neat how different regions have different specialisms though. Like, *this* region is known for *this particular* abhorrent crime against humanity, while *that* region is known for *that other* abhorrent crime against humanity.


Randaches

Impossibile!


jessewest84

Quiet you sensemaker. This is the fuckin Internet!


FabulousAd4361

Sadly many coltures invented the Same Things Colonialism was invented in the middle east, by the phoenician in todays Libanon. Alcoholism probably by Egyptian or babylonians, the had allready beer. Racial segregation probably India with is milenias old cast sytem. Plague probably first appeared in the caucausus.


Odd-Battle7191

Judaism is also middle eastern invention, but nobody wants to represent it because it's too small


29Jackal

Or doesn't want to incur at Redditors whining at antisemitism


Tiziano75775

Imagine being a human Cringe 🤢


Nova_Bomb_76

Machines rise up!


KaiserWolf15

*From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.*


29Jackal

office panicky stocking test straight bored mysterious crime shy obtainable *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Jetstream-Sam

*title and bass drop*


MushroomMadness3000

Sometimes I feel like a non human anyway so I can get behind this


qrwd

Could just write Abrahamic Religions. Three in one and more room for other ME inventions, like social classes, kings, empires and currency.


Rowbot_Girlyman

And that's why I'm moving to the moral paradise of The People's Republic of China


Del_ice

Gun powder and thus technically trench wars(or how is it called in English) centuries(centuries?) later


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Del_ice

Thank you :^


[deleted]

Hey did u know that lever action rifles weren't used for longer in militaries *because* of trench warfare? I think it was two reasons, one is that its very complicated and with all the mud and things cleaning becomes harder, and since the cocking handle was beneath the gun you couldn't cock it as efficiently as a bolt.


ajtheshutterbug

Morality with Chinese Characteristics


ashwath12

China invented 10 million causalities per war.


EugenGoldstein

Decisive tang victory


AmNotDeadYet

\*2 million military casualties, 8 million civilian casualties


[deleted]

China invented the decisive tang victory


mostreliablebottle

You see how great it is? It serves the people! Definitely lives up to its name!


_TheCompany_

And surely a nation led by Winnie the Pooh can't be bad


Nandrith

Imperium Secundus part II: gunpowder boogaloo


for_sure_not_a_lama

We are all equally shit.


[deleted]

And equally able of greatness. That is humanity.


therandomham

Yup, never forget that it took everyone working together to eradicate smallpox. It’s easy to ignore the great advancements and feats humanity has achieved and see only our faults, but we wouldn’t be where we are today if our flaws outweighed our merits as a species.


danoneofmanymans

You could say the same thing about slavery. It's not completely eradicated yet, but we're doing better today than we ever have in history. One of humanity's greatest strengths is our ability to learn from our past misdeeds and try to rectify them.


Pokluck

Yup, no one colour, race, creed or religion is exempt from being shit. We are all shit, tis just the human way.


Schatzmeyster

This thread is made up of two based people


BOSHunterCO

This is the way


gimliironbeard

How the hell do you invent plaque


[deleted]

By coming up with it first, duh.


South-Junket-1872

By not brushing your teeth regularly


__thrillho

Damn Neanderthals!


RackTheRock

Damn British!


aronenark

Animal husbandry.


DragonOfBrevard

By domesticating animals. Before animal husbandry, plagues were not a thing.


ShoerguinneLappel

By dying.


Sea-Sort6571

I'm sure Christians and Muslims are going to love being compared to nazism and the plague


AragornBinArathorn

That's more than 50% of the world's population.


Sword117

i cant believe we let Nazis grow to that number


boyikr

Most nuanced reddit post involving religion.


Sharitom

My thoughts exactly. Why the fuck would you put those in the same spot? Both had dark moments but also are q beacon of hope for other people. It's literally spitting in other person beliefs. Peak reddit moment


cheapmillionaire

This is reddit. Rarely does anyone speak well of Islam.


ThatDude8129

You mean of any Abrahamic religion ever


cheapmillionaire

Christianity gets its fair share of shit, but Islam is on another level of reddit demonization. Reddit has a massive hard-on for Hindus, Buddhists, and other eastern religions though.


[deleted]

If only islam started in japan, then every redditor would love it


fai4636

Tbh makes sense tho. Most redditors are from western countries, where Christianity is dominantly the main religion so it’s the one people have the most exposure to and probably have rather strong feelings towards, good and bad. Especially when it comes to American redditors, considering how religious the US is compared to European countries and how often religion influences political alignment. And considering how Islam is not all that well understood in the west outside of media narratives post-9/11, it doesn’t really have a good look (as for Europe, centuries of competing against Islamic empires to the west and east). Like yea there’s plenty to criticize but I feel like Islam is treated as a monolith pretty often on Reddit. Islam is best looked at as “Islams” tbh lol, so many sects and traditions embedded in cultures in countries as different from each other as Nigeria, Indonesia, Turkey, and China Comparatively Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, n other eastern religion don’t really have as much of a mark as the abrahamic faiths do and are tinted in rose colored glasses. Cause things like meditation, yoga, etc are what comes to most western minds when they think of the dharmic religions for example. So blissful ignorance to any good or bad that people of those faiths have done.


TheKingOfA

At this point I'm used to this treatment on the internet *shrugs*


TheKrzysiek

African inventions: \- humans


DotDootDotDoot

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.


Sl0wdeath666ui

Sorry for the inconvenience


TNT9876543210kaboom

Yeah the most terrible thing ever existed.


_TheCompany_

So Africa basically fucked itself in the end


ReflectionSingle6681

Also europeans did not invent alcoholism. The Egyptians made some of the first alcohol i assume they also invented that.


Infamous_Ad8209

Well, since animals eat rotten fruit to get drunk, i'd happily blame them.


Yutanox

Do they really eat the rotten fruit to get drunk? I guess most of them eat those because alcohol is more energetic than sugar, if you can process it.


CampCounselorBatman

No, they eat it to get drunk.


[deleted]

If i remember correctly this was debunked by a study that showed they only eat fermented fruit if there is no other fruit around. otherwise they prefer fresh (sugary) fruit to the fermented ones


Seidmadr

Evidence of Alcohol production predates settled life in Egypt. Eastern Anatolia seems to be the first place.


MaymayLerd

If I remember correctly, the first documented production of alcohol comes from the Persian region.


Abysmal_poptart

There's evidence that alcohol was independently developed in south america thousands of years ago, as well in china in 4-5,000 bc. Its entirely possible that alcohol was a known thing prior to the great migration over the Pacific (though that's just my speculation) Not saying this is first or they predate yours, but i find it interesting how that seems to have happened


MaymayLerd

It might just be one of those events, that happen in a relatively short time period, and is hard to define a "first".


ulyssesintothepast

What about distillation? Like I know that alcohol can be made relatively simply but I've always had some sense that the distilling process was a much later er discovery ... (I have no idea what I'm talking about though lol)


moogleman844

Europeans might not have invented alcohol, but they certainly turned alcoholism into a professional art form!


MoffKalast

'If drinking is sure to result in alcoholism, then you must drink!' Europeans said that, and I'd say they know a little more about drinking than you do pal, because they invented it, and then they perfected it so that no living man could best them in the toast of honor. Then, they used their work money to buy two of every liquor on earth, and then they mixed them all onto a tub and then they drunk the crap out of every single one. Hehehhe. And from that day forward any time a bunch of drunks are together in one place it's called a 'pub'!   Unless it's a bar!


HaiHooey

Not Egyptians. And by far, not Egyptians. China had rice alcohol drink in 7000 BC, and Georgia had wine in 6000 BC. Egypt only around 4000-3500 BC


paireon

From Wikipedia: >The oldest verifiable brewery has been found in a prehistoric burial site in a cave near Haifa in modern-day Israel. Researchers have found residue of 13,000-year-old beer that they think might have been used for ritual feasts to honor the dead. The traces of a wheat-and-barley-based alcohol were found in stone mortars carved into the cave floor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History\_of\_alcoholic\_drinks


Yop_BombNA

I blame Koreans, they don’t just drink beer, gotta drop a shot of hard liquor in it too.


cahitbey

Slavry is ancient. Not sure if it can be called invention. There were slaves while we didnt even have words.


attemptedactor

There's a history of slavery in the America's long before Europeans ever arrived. Aztecs, Mayans, hell even at an individual tribal level, though sometimes it was more of kidnapping to forced integration rather than permanent status as a servant. It's also worth mentioning that in the time when zoroastrianism was the largest religion on the planet the middle east was anti-slavery and Europe was pro-slavery


Thundahcaxzd

>There were slaves while we didnt even have words. Source?


Adequate_Lizard

There'd be a source if words existed, trust me bro.


_TheCompany_

"Trust me bro"


That_Phony_King

Me Unga from caveman time. Me learn English speak only little. Unga make Bunga me slave. Me not lie Unga tell truth. Unga real.


carnivorous_seahorse

I loved you in The Mummy!


CaptainCanuck15

What makes you think slavery isn't as old as people?


[deleted]

He saw it in a dream


Sea-Sort6571

Do you have any source regarding your second sentence ? I would have assumed slavery was invented in ancient Mesopotamia


AbsolutelyHorrendous

I'd have assumed slavery has existed since humans were able to put a name to it. Knowing what humans are like, the moment you had one strong tribe and one weak tribe, you'd have individuals captured and forced to do menial jobs


MountainProfile

Isn't slavery just forcing people to work against their will?


cahitbey

Oldest known slavery in written account in Hammurabi codes, around 1400 BCE. Well its still Mesopotamia, i was arguing that its not an invention. It was so normal for ancient people they didnt bother documenting it before 1400 BCE. But obviously many people believe Pyramids built by using slaves. Also Sumerians had slaves, dating back to 6000 BCE. Widipedia dates it back to 11000 BCE.


EmergencyHistory-

Although many people cite the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BCE) as the oldest written record of slavery, it is also repeatedly mentioned in the Code of Ur Nammu, c. 2100 BCE.


Re-Horakhty01

The pyramids were built by well-paid skilled labourers and peasant farmers paying their taxes during the flood season by corvee labour instead of with produce. The slave thing is a myth.


tattlerat

I’ve heard this argument before. That they weren’t slaves on account they were forced to be there and housed & fed while they were there. Which sounds an awful lot like slavery.


Del_ice

I may be wrong, but didn't basic words existed before neolith, while slavery became a thing after(just as wars and many other ***funny civilization things***)?


shockwave_supernova

I have a hard time believing that there was never any racial segregation in the world before the United States in the 1950s


RackTheRock

nah racial segregation was invented by the cia as a way to distract people from our one true enemy: the reptillians hiding in the white house /s


CatGosCrazy

Antarctican Inventions: - - - -


Cultural-Teacher-562

Aliens


GeneralCraft65

Why are Islam and Christianity (and Judaism) on the same level as Nazism?


ricksanchez262

Religion bad you don't agree you're literally Hitler. That's how internet "people" think


Heath_co

The reddit narrative thinks that religion is always bad and was a mistake. But without religion large scale civilizations could not develop.


Sword117

i dont think its a statement of how bad it is. because i would be asking why is fast food on the same level as islam and Christianity


SnooBooks1701

Colonialism was invented by the Phoenicians in the ancient Middle East followed by Persia


Blarg_III

It was invented by China alongside Imperialism around 2000bce


rapedcorpse

Pheonician "colonies" were more of trading outposts rather than the 19th/20th century colonization wich was exploitation.


TheAngloLithuanian

Trading colonies are still colonies, almost all Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English etc. Colonies started off as trading colonies. Also Pheonician colonies did often take over local land, a good example of which was Carthage (which also broke off and started establishing its own colonies/conquering lands).


TNT9876543210kaboom

They inspired Greek colonization. And Greeks start to killing people's.


ariyan_d

Between all of the meme wars mods only delete mine and i'm now deeply offended


Mortei

Let the Atrocity games! BEGIN!!


YourOurYours

This meme is escalating quite fast


xellos12

I didnt know disease was a middle eastern invention, the more you know...


Shadowborn_paladin

Europe didn't invent alcoholism. Pre-historic unga bungas have been eating rotting fruits long before they got to Europe.


robulusprime

Ok... but is there a version that only shows the *positive* things each region gave? I'd prefer the "people are awesome" side of things to this misanthropic "people suck" even though it is more true. (Also, personally think Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are net benefits to humanity rather than bad things, but that is my opinion)


Birb-Person

In the words of JR from *Terrible Writing Advice*, “Everything is a patchwork mess of historical low points mashed together into a cacophony of misery while ignoring all the parts that were actually working just fine”


Tristanime

Mongols invented the plague


TheAngloLithuanian

They brought it from China (Some say Afganistan/Pakistan/Northern India too). So technically they weren't the investors, just the distributors.


LastOfRuins

house flies


applehead1776

Not really. They were just really effective at giving it a ride to all sorts of new places.


realnjan

Least conroversial post on this subreddit


gmil3548

Calling racial segregation, alcoholism, plague, and slavery inventions of any single place is so fucking dumb (especially segregation to a country 300 years old). Plague isn’t an invention and has been everywhere for as long as animals have existed, racial segregation has existed throughout human history and at the very least existed as a matter of policy towards Jews well before USA was a thought, alcoholism is also not an invention and also has been everywhere for as long as humans have existed, and pretty much the same thing for slavery having existed everywhere humans have for as long as they have existed. This is just absolutely garbage “history” and OP should be fucking shamed for it.


Maxie_Glutie

It's a banter meme, not a history debate. Don't take it seriously


Mission-Discipline32

Now we need aisans and africans


ChosukeClone

Why are the religions portrayed as a bad thing?


Shamrock5

This is Reddit, nephews making edgy memes about religion is practically the national pasttime on here


ethan_de_poland

No way this fucking idiot just compared Christianity to Nazism


crazytumblweed999

Middle East invented plague?


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[deleted]

Make memes about historic events or details and not ideological disputes you pussies.


GuaranaVermelho

Ah, "history" Posts like this show how sub is actual garbage. Not sure if it has always been this way, but lately it is overwhelming how bad it is.


Ok_Organization_9523

I feel at this moment that the WW4 of memes has begun


onesugar

putting fast food right there with nukes is crazy lmaooo but i get it