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Originally posted by Ominousbeing
Considering the mainstream science and taking into fact that homo-sapiens are 200,000 years old. What happened to our history? Where is it? If we've been here for that long surely we couldn't have just in the past 15,000 made a decent civilization, such as the Sumerians and Egyptians. Where is the rest of our history, were we just banging our heads against rocks for that time. I believe not. Whats your opinion. What do you think about this.
Originally posted by Quinctilius Varus
Development for advanced human civilization would have required precise circumstances in many different levels. An ample supply of food, an agreeable environment, and sheer luck. When food became more abundant and methods of storing it for longer than immediate use came around, individual humans had more time to perform other tasks that were not focused strictly on survival. Civilization cannot grow when your only concerns are food and shelter.
If the environment was too arid, then people would be too focused on finding water and food to settle down and begin city life. If the environment was too cold, they'd still be hunting for food and warmth to avoid freezing to death.
The first city in the world could have formed a hundred thousand years ago, but it only lasted a few months because the people were poor cleaners and a plague manifested. If nature didn't set back early human development, then the lack of knowledge most certainly would have. Human growth is exponential and grows faster when you have a past to base your theories off of. Why would an ancient caveman know how to grow food?
Why would it even occur to him that planting seeds would mean he could control when and where the food would grow? The caveman who would discover this would have to have the perfect circumstances individually to figure out that certain seeds grow into food. Never mind figuring out all the other ins and outs of agriculture that fueled early civilization.
My main concern with theories of ancient civilizations is the lack of ruins. If massive highly advanced metropolises existed as some have said, where are the ruins? Surely something would have survived even the worst case scenario. If someone were to dig up the remains of an ancient car or structure, then perhaps I'd be swayed.
Originally posted by mike84596
Someone was talking about the Egyptians and - I think the Egyptians had contact with extra terrestrials. (anyone ever see the Egyptian head on mars?)
Anyways what if society 100,000 years ago, got to a point where they killed themselves off where there was such a minuscule amount of man kind left, it slowly started to rebuild itself.
There's ALOT of stuff we should find out about our old old old ancestors. Real interesting stuff we could learn and prosper from.
God instructs Noah to board the Ark with his family, seven pairs of the birds and the clean animals, and one pair of the unclean animals. "
Originally posted by Ominousbeing
Considering the mainstream science and taking into fact that homo-sapiens are 200,000 years old. What happened to our history? Where is it? If we've been here for that long surely we couldn't have just in the past 15,000 made a decent civilization, such as the Sumerians and Egyptians. Where is the rest of our history, were we just banging our heads against rocks for that time. I believe not. Whats your opinion. What do you think about this.