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[–] luckyguy 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Reading up on it the only indicator that I see that they were advanced is that they traded. Nigerian gangsters do a lot of trading today. I wouldn't call them sophisticated. So do gypsies. Did they have secure households, education, and a lack of squalor? If somebody farmed something could they expect it to not be harvested by someone else?

The only thing I see is that they hunted elephants and got kind of good at making the ivory into things. They had a king but bush people with a power structure are still bush people. Maybe the king had cool artifacts. I see evidence of imports, but too often histroy measures the advancedness of a society by the richest person there. I don't think that's class centrism. I think it's creating excuses for the fact that a lot of societies that historians study are just backwards villagers or bushmen. Nobody wants to admit that they've dedicated their lives to studying idiots so they make up any way to spin that what they are studying is actually super sophiticated.