Why were nordic people so primitive compared to romans?

>a magician never blames his tools

Yes but this is the real world where things aren't so black and white, and where "stone isn't a great building material in cold environments during that time period" isn't the same as "it's the stone's fault I'm so goddamned cold". Context matters, so does inferring what people say especially when you can't expect everyone to be as literal as possible. Heed this advice, I used to be incredibly autistic like you too when it came to even the most basic of tasks, like reading a post on the internet for example.

Not quite, it's a common misconception based on the fact that the shit they used to put on the inside of castle walls has worn off.

It was a very white plaster of sorts, apart from making the castle comfy by blocking all drafts it also made everything very bright because the small amounts of light coming in through the small windows (small on purpose so the walls are stronger) would reflect very well.

Primitive in terms of technology, but sophisticated in other ways.

I don't get why pol sees progress purely in terms of houses and science. Coming from someone with a PhD in maths, there is more to the world than maths, physics, engineering.

Look at Buddhists, they are far more spiritually enlightened than Europeans. It's hard to do anything else when a society revolves around meditating for 14 hours a day.

Has it occurred that maybe the Nordic people just didn't value or bother to invest in understanding natural sciences or engineering?

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Especially the castles, that's why tapisteries were made, they reduce the cold coming from the walls

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Why do Nordic people do better in the US than they do in the Nordic countries?

cuz dem romans tryna keep an aryan down

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Get your shit together

>Le Med memes
Don't get me wrong, Italians and Greeks are one of the best immigrants we have, but this romanticism of southern Europe always makes me smirk

It's hard to be great at stuff when it's always cold and there aren't other civilizations to conquer all around you.

>why were nordic people so primitive compared to romans?
Why does this non political thread get so many responses?

>Coming from swamp germany

'cause it was fucking cold.

I dunno about you guys but when I'm cold the last thing I want to be doing is anything

Looks comfy desu

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The Romans stole everything from the Greeks, who stole everything from the Egyptians, who were black.

primitive people don't have free trade and access to new ideas and technologies.

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autism

Romans were a bunch of tryhards.

Engineers do.

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faggot.

Thanks for showing off that shitcunt education.

Agricultural technologies at the time made it hard to support the population level needed for large scale sophisticated economies in northern latitudes.

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This picture is meaningless.

Romans were many, Germanics were few.
There was no need for one of them to change their lifestile in order to solve it's inner problems since those inner problems didn't develop yet.

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Are you retarded you dumb faggot ?

They weren't.
They somehow created a minarchist monarchal society in harsh winter confitions while Rome was imperial and had a Mediterranean climate. They later became pussified and eventually conquered by the nordics.

Shit's cold up north. Can't sit around eating olives and philosophising all day when you have to fight bears over the scraps of food during winter.

Nordics sailed a lot. They only built camps and forts, they didn't care about building cities since they moved around a lot.

Their boats were great works of craftsmanship.

Building working insulation that works all year a long from +40c to -40c is quite challenge even today. That's why most nordic homes at that time were small, because heating it would be easier during winter.

This makes pretty much as much sense as asking why were Latin tribes so primitive in the 5th century BC comparing to Greeks. Each civilization had it's time, developed according to external conditions and never invented all of its "stuff", but rather imported and improved preexisting technologies from other cultures.

That's why middle-eastern civilization had it's time. Then it was time for Mediterranean civilization, then it was Northern Europeans, etc...

[spoiler]And now comes the age of Slav.[/spoiler]

My mistake. I didn't dare maximize the image. Regardless my statement is still true, just less relevant.

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Matthew you should take pills. Haven't seen so many bullshit in one post for a very long time

Because populations were too low and the migration period hadnt started yet, allowing Nordic primitive tribes to start raiding and trading.

>why were nordic people so primitive compared to romans?

>Most people lived in shit houses at that time.
>Harsh climate that can't support a big population.
>Small population with low agricultural yields > not a lot of builders that can work with only building shit.

TL;DR Warmer climate leads to better crop yields that leads to a higher population that leads to civilization. The waterways around the Mediterranean also contributed a lot towards trade.

And wood isn't a bad building material either. If you got a lot of it there is no reason not to use it.

>unable to conquer neighboring lands
What an idiot. When one people have grown bigger then their habitat can support they might start to conquer and subjugate. If you still have land to expand into you can expand and colonize instead.

t. Vandals
t. Visigoths
t. Normans
etc

leave it to a pole to not be able to read

who is matthew? are you hearing voices again? naming them? projection is real. take your pills lad.

fucking racist piece of shit, like what the fuck is up with the cultural appropriation? I mean aren't you smart enough to think up an idea that isn't stolen from the black community?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furor_Teutonicus
The Romans were scared shitless of the Nordic people. The Nordic people nearly burned Rome to the ground on several occasions. The Nordic people could fuck up Roman legionaries. The Nordic people were based.

Quoting roman historian Cornelius Tacitus:
>The Fenni are astonishingly savage and disgustingly poor. They have no proper weapons, no horses, no homes. they eat wild herbs, dress in skins, and sleep on the ground.

>Their only hope of getting better fare lies in their arrows, which, for lack of iron, they tip with bone. The women support themselves by hunting, exactly like the men; they accompany them everywhere and insist on taking their share in bringing down the game. The only way they have of protecting their infants against wild beasts or bad weather is to hide them under a makeshift covering of interlaced branches. Such is the shelter to which the young folk come back and in which the old must lie. Yet they count their lot happier than that of others who groan over field labor, sweat over house-building, or hazard their own and other men's fortunes in the hope of profit and the fear of loss. Unafraid of anything that man or god can do to them, they have reached a state that few human beings can attain: for these men are so well content that they do not even need to pray for anything.

but then the eternal sven came and ruined everything

I believe that honour belongs to the Slavs.

You're both wrong.
The correct answer is the Irish.

Scandinavians are literally niggers. Look.

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>American flag
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Master race dosen't need comforts.
Comforts are degenerate

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>why were the greatest ancient civilizations situated in regions where crops grow all year long?
gee, I wonder why

Actually, no.

Environs with harsh winters select for planning, culture, and a large prefrontal cortex.

You need to keep records to make sure you store enough to survive, and you also need things to do indoors so you learn to read.

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Just look at history - all the oldest civilizations grew in and around the fertile crescent, then as agriculture improved, domesticated animals became more common and trade routes expanded, it became increasingly viable to build cities in climates that were previously considered inhospitable. This is not to say northern Europeans were dumb - in fact, Northern Europeans were among the greatest sailors and shipwrights for an extended period of time, famously even crossing the Atlantic centuries before Columbus.

I know, we was the niggers of Europe. All viking cities was and are shit, just take a look on oslo and Dublin totally shit

There's a 1300 year difference but yeah

why has the descendants of the romans been far inferior to us since the industrial revolution?

Ireland please, we have a lot in common.
Like shitty lowpriced Airlines

Tacitus describing Samis, whom he never met.

The climate. While we struggled to survive they could easier grow crops and focus on building great monument that will last for thousands of years. We had to focus on ships that was designed to travel the ocean and rivers for inland raiding.

Samis are the true subhumans of the north. Asian immigrants that stole the land with help from the goverment of the natives that settlet Väster/Österbotten during the last ice age.

Those Nordic huts are a lot nicer looking.

why were roman people so primitive compared to greeks?

why were greek people so primitive compared to egyptians?

No beasts of burden to help build anything bigger than a hut.