I appreciate the uninhibited ethnocentrism. It’s refreshing, really.
Mozart was a genius. So was Newton. So was al-Khwarizmi, who, as you know, invented algebra. You know who else is really smart? Hunter gatherers who know their environments incredibly well and can survive efficiently off of what’s around them. That takes a lot of knowledge and intelligence.
Maybe if you had dropped Mozart off on the banks of the Sepik River in 1770, his genius brain could have helped him figure out how to survive. And maybe if you had sent a young Nandi tribesman to study music in Salzberg, he would have written Don Giovanni. We’ll never know. But smart (and dumb) people are all around.
The fact that Mozart was able to study and write music in Salzberg was the result countless events going back thousands of years that resulted in settled society and writing arriving to Europe which allowed for specialized labor and then the free time and resources for someone to work on music and not on finding food. The “oh my god, the Africans were so dumb, why didn’t they write the Marriage of Figaro” is just so stupid. Until recent times, technology spread unevenly around the globe and the ability (and even possibility) of having settled society relies on the availability of resources, which include crops and animals, which were not uniformly distributed across the globe. People do the best they can with the resources they have.