Great inventions from Africa, Central America , even Asia ???

Aztecs had a calendar tracking the solar and lunar eclipse long before Westerners did...

The Mayans also invented a game that was a cross between soccer and basketball and let me tell you....those two games changed the world.
 
Pedro Paulet was born in Arequipa, Peru in 1874, this engineer was the first person who built in 1895 a liquid fuel propulsion engine for a rocket, and is considered one of the “fathers of aeronautics” and modern rocketry.

His creations include jet engines, propulsion systems and an airplanes that would use thermoelectric batteries and rocket engines. Thanks to him and many other inventors we can travel around the world.
 
In 1980, Baruj Benacerraf a Venezuelan doctor won the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jean Dausset and George David Snell for the discovery of the “major histocompatibility complex”, a family of superficial molecules in the cell that mediate the interaction of white blood cells with other cells of the body.

According to scientific research, this complex determines, the compatibility of an organ for a transplant, as well as the susceptibility of a person to an autoimmune disease. An invention that has save many lives and will continue to do so.
 
El OchoCinco said:
In 1980, Baruj Benacerraf a Venezuelan doctor won the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jean Dausset and George David Snell for the discovery of the “major histocompatibility complex”, a family of superficial molecules in the cell that mediate the interaction of white blood cells with other cells of the body.

According to scientific research, this complex determines, the compatibility of an organ for a transplant, as well as the susceptibility of a person to an autoimmune disease. An invention that has save many lives and will continue to do so.
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Always wondered how that worked
 
El OchoCinco said:
Pedro Paulet was born in Arequipa, Peru in 1874, this engineer was the first person who built in 1895 a liquid fuel propulsion engine for a rocket, and is considered one of the “fathers of aeronautics” and modern rocketry.

His creations include jet engines, propulsion systems and an airplanes that would use thermoelectric batteries and rocket engines. Thanks to him and many other inventors we can travel around the world.
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These are not the answers the racist troll was looking for.
 
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NY_HOOD said:
guys, just thinking out loud here. We all know the United States of America has come out with revolutionary inventions that changed the world. Western Europe as well.
My question is this, what great inventions or life changing idea’s have come out of Africa or central america???? Asia has some very smart people but they are mostly good at stealing our idea’ s and sometimes even making them better. Japan and china are known for this. Anyway, inventions or life changing idea’s from africa or central america?
Why do you think this is ????
By the way, both japan and china have extremely low rates of violent crime. Why is that?
I know africa and central and south america are some of the most violent and dangerous places on earth.
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Inconvenient in the PC world but there's some truth to this. People getting angry and calling you racist says a lot about the current culture.

Japan does have a lot of smaller inventions and they are the best at turning a so-so idea into perfection.
Also, in reality their list of inventions is long. Lithium ion batteries were invented in Japan. So would you say Tesla is stealing Japanese technology when installing LiIon battery packs in cars?

Chinese inventions slowed a lot during communism and they have a completely fall-in-line-don't-stand-out culture which does not favor new ideas.

Sub-Saharan Africa has basically nothing, they didn't even have the wheel before the white man arrived, think about that.

I'm surprised as an American you claim Chinese are stealing ideas (they are) yet totally oblivious about US thefts of European inventions. Remember the times when UK protested against US pirating British books and US said to take a hike. Or when Aspirin was stolen from Germans.

In Europe the inventions do not exclusively come from Western Europe, North was also quite active...
 
Snarkhund said:
The Dogon tribe in Malawi knew that Sirius was actually 3 stars at least 1000 years before Western Civilization managed to figure it out. They worship Sirius-C, a star we only managed to detect in the late 20th century.

What is your point? Choose your words carefully friendo...
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This is why sources matter. You're regurgitating something from laughable websites, think "ancient aliens" and other garbage. The common sense here is that if they had any real methods to investigate the sky, they would also have other advanced technologies.
 
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