Or possibly the Arabian Peninsula, having a unique agglutinative language In -4000 the long-headed (dolichocephalic) super-tall fair-skinned blonde-blue That you can sail S and then turn around and float back N with the current. While the wind always blows from N to S because of the Mediterranean Sea, so The Nile is neat because it not only floods once a year and leaves aĬouple of miles of fertile silt on each bank, but it flows from S to N In Egypt the Egyptians (Remetch, meaning "people") enjoy a lack of naturalĮnemies, giving them the longest period of political stability in human history (Persian "tigra" = pointed, Sumerian "idigna" = swift river), and along the (Persian "ufratu" = good to cross over, Sumerian for fruitful) and swift In -4000 city-states begin to rise along the banks of the leisurely Mesopotamia develops a rich, fertile delta, and the Near East becomes a wet warm Eden the Saharan grasslands turn to desert. Which has been rising since the end of the Ice Age reaches modern-day levels In -4000 the Neolithic Period ends, and the Chalcolithic Period begins (ends -3500). 4000 is the date of Creation according to Sir Isaac Newton. In -4000 world pop.: 7M, beginning to double every thousand years pop. S of modern-day Paris),įrance, complete with anesthesia and aseptic conditions. Is an amputation operation on the left forearm of an elderly man in Buthiers-Boulancort (40 mi. the first known trepanationĪbout 4,900 B.C.E. I must have a hole in my head, but one thing stands out.Ībout 5,000 B.C.E. since it's not really history it's the output of Science. Strive mightily just to scope back a few thousand years trying to picture the great ascent from Zero on Da Brain to today's speeding Gigabrain Train,įrom the Dawn of Time to 4000 B.C.E. While modern global Big Science has grown so arrogant that its high priests regularly claim to see back to the moment of Creation, real historyscopers Mention the role of geography, climate, culture, political system, and sheer luck. Tireless workers and dozens of long centuries it took to scale the present heights, and how philosophy and religion aided and hindered progress, not to In this Information Age when kids are handed iPads and iTablets while traveling cross-country in a jumbo jet, it's hard to imagine how many myriads of
Since I'm the one-and-only Historyscoper (tm), let me quickly bring you up to speed before you dive into my Historyscopes. Westerners are not only known as history ignoramuses, but double dumbass history ignoramuses when it comes to science and technology history. TLW's Science and Technology Historyscopeīy T.L. TLW's Science and Technology Historyscope, by T.L.
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