Lack of great monuments in SSA

[Internet Nomad]

Is there a single example of a single sub-saharan nation in all of Africa that produced architectural works on par with these various examples?

It cant be lack of wealth or power or even ignorance as Africa was connected with the global market.

What is the reason?

It can’t be they didnt have taste for beautiful architecture as there many builds that look amazing but was the reason that there was no major architectural works done.

Is this all we really got?

 

[Internet Nomad]

For those who think it was a lack of creativity or taste.

 

[Aurelian]

Is there a single example of a single sub-saharan nation in all of Africa that produced architectural works on par with these various examples?
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It cant be lack of wealth or power or even ignorance as Africa was connected with the global market.

What is the reason?

It can’t be they didnt have taste for beautiful architecture as there many builds that look amazing but was the reason that there was no major architectural works done.

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Is this all we really got?

Decentralization, lack of hierarchy, extremely low dense in population compared to the center of the worlds e.g. middle east.

Europe is filled with castles because it was very easy to navigate from Western Europe to Eastern part of the continent. Look at the "Holy ""Roman"" Empire"

If you don't have a strategic location with good factors for urbanization and supporting large human population, you wont have any of these. Each location you provided was either an agriculture location for thousand of years or have large population in tiny place.

For Japan, their design and alphabet came from China, a country that had all the factors for civilization. SSA is not good for any of these except in the western africa, who had their great empires, mostly after having contact with the outside world for trade.