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Diamond_R on scored.co
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…Hanno sailed from the Mediterranean out of straights of Gibraltar to explore the coast of Africa with a fleet of 60 ships, he worked his way down the coast past Mauritania to subsaharan Africa where he found that the people all had "burt skin" which is to say they were negroes. After meeting people like this for a while every time his ships landed he eventually came to an island off the coast of what is now Cameroon that was filled with burt skin people who were very hairy and extremely unruly. He named this tribe "Gorillas".
Because Hanno was not influenced by our modern ideas of species (The idea that humanity is a single species was declared by the UN in November of 1945, the idea has no basis in science or in reality, but all UN member nations are required to abide by it nonetheless.) he had to call things as he saw them and he was unable to differentiate between gorillas and African negroes other than that the gorillas were hairier.
Because Hanno was not influenced by our modern ideas of species (The idea that humanity is a single species was declared by the UN in November of 1945, the idea has no basis in science or in reality, but all UN member nations are required to abide by it nonetheless.) he had to call things as he saw them and he was unable to differentiate between gorillas and African negroes other than that the gorillas were hairier.