We want to compare apples to oranges. We are the accumulation of or past, and we stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us. The authors want to prove that the past is just as great as the present, but without the past we would not be where we are today. Every society is built on the ruins of the old. We have six million years of human evolution that gets us to where we are, and who knows what the next six million years will get us; if we don't knock ourselves off in the process.
It is said that consciousness lags behind the material conditions of society. Our consciousness lags so far behind we are still stuck in the Middle Ages. We are just coming to terms with what our past was really like, and our judgements are clouded is bias, prejudice, and a whole lot of ignorance. They say, "Respect the past, Embrace the present. Relish the future. For life goes on with-in us and with-out us. Mar 19, 43 I know. Why are the ancient alien species always so much more advanced than the modern ones?
Science Lost. Mar 13, 5 0 We would know so much more if not for the travesty committed by liquidating the collection in Texas. Their was several civilizations documented with archeological evidence that no one have never been reported.
Even a couple much earlier than the Sumarians. You must log in or register to reply here. Post thread. Live Science News Discussions. Now is a good time to talk about James webb Space Telescope. Started by DeepSciences Oct 16, Replies: 6. What were the Crusades? Was More proposing a blueprint of an ideal society or satirising the self-interest, greed and military exploits of the hereditary monarchies of his time?
On one thing nearly everyone agrees: no utopia has ever existed. Large human societies tend to be governed by coercion. The instinct for warfare has been a driving force in nearly every civilisation of the last five millennia, from ancient Mesopotamia to the British Empire.
Or has it? One mysterious, ancient society might give the lie to that. The civilisation of the Indus valley is the most enigmatic of the four great early civilisations. But while Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt and ancient China gloried in warfare, it seems absent from the Indus valley.
Was this a real, functioning utopia? If so, how did it survive, and why did it eventually disappear? The Indus civilisation flourished from about to BC. More than a thousand settlements have been found covering at least , square kilometres of what is now Pakistan, India and Afghanistan see map , yet its remains were only discovered in the s.
It is now regarded as the beginning of Indian civilisation and possibly the origin of Hinduism. It had a vigorous maritime export trade via the Arabian Sea, and archaeologists have found objects made in the Indus valley in Mesopotamian cities such as Ur and Akkad.
Indus craftsmen created complex stone weights for commerce and long, precision-drilled carnelian beads for jewellery. Thousands of small sealstones have also been found; worn around the neck, merchants would have used them to stamp their identity on clay tags. Each one is carved with an exquisite but mysterious script, which has provoked more than a hundred published attempts to decipher its language — with little consensus.
A sealstone with the Indus script. Other aspects of the civilisation are even more perplexing. The chief cities show no clear signs of being fortified.
No armour and no indisputably military weapon — as opposed to knives, spears and arrows designed for hunting animals — has been found. Nor is there evidence of the horse, an animal well suited to raiding parties, which later became common in the region. In nearly a century of excavations, archaeologists have uncovered just one depiction of humans fighting, and it is a partly mythical scene showing a female deity with the horns of a goat and the body of a tiger.
There is a total absence of conspicuous royal palaces and grand temples, no monumental depiction of kings and other rulers, not much difference between the homes of rich and poor, no sign of differing diets in the bones of buried skeletons and no evidence of slavery. All this stands in stark contrast with the ziggurats of Mesopotamia and pharaohs of ancient Egypt. I suppose i am excluding the bronze age from my edited list, because that over-complicates things.
I must admit that harappan civilization was very advanced for its time, with clay pipe plumbing and centrally designed cities being in common use. Finally, although this may make many people who hold romantic ideals about the mystical native american civilizations who were so advanced and ingenious, I must say that in general their achievements pale in comparison to those of old world civilizations.
They were no better than europeans ect before columbus came, they fought wars and massacred each other in great numbers just like any other people. Finally, althought im probably somewhat biased because i have western european heritage, I think the celtic peoples of europe would be included in such a list. Just a complex of different cultural traits. Although he is also a little biased, all his claims are based on solid evidence.
I meant my comment about meso americans would make the people with ahistorical notions of their lives angry. Some other sites have only been discovered in the last 10 — 15 years. These empires and choices are most interesting. I would love to visit and by the way I am only 14 years old and I am a very smart and know all about these empires. Keep doing that and we will get a North vs South Nuclear World War 3 where everyone will lose and become extinct like the dinosaurs.
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Egypt Pharaohs Tours. Good post. I learn something new and challenging on blogs I stumbleupon every day. WTF what about the Indus valley civilization??? Harappa, Mohinjadaro!!!! Indus valley civilization is considered the most ancient … rewrite your article.
Can you add the Aztecs and Mississippians? It would really help my daughter with her homework. Cause she has to know the least advanced to the advanced out of Maya, Inca, Aztecs, Mississippians. I think india should be on top or at least second…if i am about to write ancients discoveries and their dates..
The assyrians?? We were only the first people to create litriture, the calendar, time, the wheel, trading and the first empire, no biggie. I think you maybe need to put the Assyrians on the chart. If you woould like to get much frrom this paragraph then you have to apply suc techniques to your won weblog.
Where the hell is Indus valley civilization of North lndia? It was probably older than rama civilization. Heloo there! I siimply wish to give you a huge thgumbs up for your great information you have here on this post. Come on, how could you miss the Persian Empire and the Persian civilization? You should mention the Vedic culture. They were far more advanced. Highly skilled in astronomy and literature, medicines and socially too. Thanks a bunch for sharing this with all of us you actually understand what you are talking approximately!
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