Is there an explanation for why civilization diffused the way it did that doesn't rely on IQ or geographic determinism?
>>18480087Why wouldn't geographic determinism be an explanation when you require a large, consistent fresh water source for civilization to develop and it's impossible in biomes like desert or tundra?
Geographic determinism + randomness is the actual reason, though.
>>18480087Correlation does not imply causation. Agriculture arose in the Levant before Mesopotamia and Egypt, and yet Levantine cultures were historically dominated by the more advanced Mesopotamians and Egyptians, with the only Semitic peoples to rule over them being those from Syria and Northern Mesopotamia (Akkadians, Amorites/Babylonians, Hyksos, Assyrians) and not from Canaan and Phoenicia.
>>18480098Phoenicia was far more advanced, wealthier and actually had a legacy unlike those iraqi and egypsy niggersPhoenicians built a global superpower of its era that threatened literal Rome, no iraqi and egypsie came close
>>18480222So why did they worship Syrian gods with Mesopotamian Names?>The famous Ebla tablets in Syria, dating to around 2400 BCE, provide the first written in Cuneiform (Sumerian script) evidence of Semitic gods like El (the supreme creator), Dagan (lord of grains), Asherah (mother godesss) Resheph (god of war), Shamash (sun god), Chemosh (god of war), Hadad (god of fertility) and Astarte (goddess of fertility)>Unearthed at Ras Shamra on the Syrian coast, the Ugaritic Texts, dating to approximately 1375–1190 BCE, preserved the famous Baal Cycle. This epic defined the roles of gods like Baal (the storm god), El (the creator), Yam (the god of the sea), and Mot (the god of death)Even Abraham's family came from Aram (Syria) and Herodotus called Canaan "Palestine of the Syrians".>Phoenicians built a global superpower of its era that threatened literal RomeThe Carthaginians were Greeks/South Italians, who are more genetically related to Syrians than to Lebanese.>A genetic study published in PNAS in October 2023 examined the remains of 54 individuals from eighth- to fifth-century BC from the Greek Sicilian colony of Himera. The results suggest that the civilian population of Himera and the surrounding regions form a homogenous group, and are largely descended from the earlier Middle and Late Bronze Age Sicilians with minor admixtures from Iberia, the Caucasus, the Balkans and the Italian peninsula. In contrast, the main group of Himeraean soldiers appear as intermediate between the local Sicilian population and a group related to Bronze Age Aegeans, suggesting that many soldiers were plausibly the descendants of the Greek colonizers of Sicily and that intermarriage between Greeks and Sicilian locals was practiced. The rest of the Himeraean army was made up of mercenaries with ancestral origins in northern Europe, the Steppe, and the Caucasus
>>18480298>A genetic study published in Nature Communications in April 2025 examined the remains of 196 individuals from 14 sites traditionally identified as Phoenician and Punic, including ones in Sicily and Sardinia. The results suggest that during the earlier stages of the Phoenician colonization, the Punic demographic expansion was primarily driven by the spread of people with Sicilian-Aegean ancestry, while Levantine Phoenicians made little to no genetic contribution to Punic settlements in the central and western Mediterranean. The North African ancestry became widespread only after 400 BCE in the Punic world, suggesting that expanding Carthaginian influence facilitated this spread. However, this was a minority contributor of ancestry in all of the sampled sites, including in Carthage itself>A genetic study published in April 2025 by an international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Harvard University has offered new insight into the origins of the Carthaginians. By analyzing ancient DNA from about 200 individuals across 14 archaeological sites around the Mediterranean (including North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, and the Levant), the researchers found that Punic populations were genetically diverse, with little to no direct ancestry from the Levant—traditionally considered the homeland of the Phoenicians>Instead, according to the authors "these inheritors of Levantine Phoenician culture derived most of their ancestry from a genetic profile similar to that of populations in Sicily and the Aegean. Much of the remaining ancestry originated from North Africa, reflecting the growing regional influence of Carthage". In Carthage itself, "in 14 out of the 17 sampled individuals, we inferred less than 15% North African ancestry, and the remaining three individuals were inferred to have 20%–50% North African ancestry. As in Kerkouane, the primary source of ancestry is Sicilian-Aegean"
>>18480222>Muh Phoenicians wuz as OLD>Being a society of independent city-states, the Phoenicians apparently did not have a term to denote the land of Phoenicia as a whole;[18] instead, demonyms were often derived from the name of the city a person hailed from (e.g., Sidonian for Sidon, Tyrian for Tyre, etc.) There is no evidence that the peoples living in the area denoted as Phoenicia identified as "Phoenicians" or shared a common identity, although they may have referred to themselves as "Canaanites".KEK. It's a meme fake people with fake history created by Indian-Euros and Semites.
>>18480298>>18480308>>18480328The slaves of reeks and poorsian are seething again kekReminder glorious purple phoenix was the only one who stood successfully against rome and would have crushed it if circumstances were different
>>18480332Brada we are not Arab bedouins we are PHOENICIANS. kek. Abdool you are still a camel jokey whether you are a Christing cult or a Mohammedan cult.
>>18480351Lebanon is not a desert and we are not araps
>>18480087>geographic determinismbut it is literally the reason. you need fertile land that is also isolated from raiders that would steal your production.
