What Is The History Of Human Civilization

[Saint_Michael 3]

Since the dawn of mankind the question of exsistance has been in our minds since the laws of rational thought first began when fire was created by accident by the first ancient cilivilation of man, oh so long ago (i think 2 weeks ago ). Many theories have arisen most of them scientific through the use of biology and the first mentioning of molecule in 1811 by Avogadro and put in to practice in 1911 by Perrin.

 

and then later on evolution came in to play in 1858 by darwin which pretty much made alot of relgious fenatics scream and moan for the last 100 years about it as well.

 

Of course we cannot forget the God Theory thats right theory, since no one has yet to proven or it has shown up yet to us. that we have been created by an all powerful being to us as play things.

 

But of the course the history of man has been proven through the ages buy chance encounters and great discoveries of man. one of them being a skeletal remains of 7 million old skull fragment discovered in 2002 meaning man has been in exsistance for a very long time. But which comes into play the whole we came from monkeys, which in fact we are like 95-98% are alike dna wise.

 

But we the people seekinh the truth have broken down our history to ages

 

-Paleolithic is the when the first exsistance of man began with the wheel, the first ancient weapons and tools of survival. and the use of animals and plant life. Also thoeries have been claim that Iraq to be the spark of the first human cilivization to come into exsistance, (many believe africa to be the birthplace of mankind due to the skeletal remains their)

 

 

-Neolithic Revolution is when the first big civilizations with laws and government started forming, with the great empires like egypt and ancient Mesopotamia, greece, rome, mayan, aztec and more.

-Bronze and Iron Ages is when the big advances of creating tools and weapons out of metals like bronze and iron. sadly thought some countries are still in that age or like most tribes in parts of the world are behind that just using stone and wood tools to live on.

 

-The classical empires is during the age that ancient rome was the greatest empire on earth spanning many great leaders of our time and many great thinkers as well.

 

-Age of kingdoms with the fall of the roman empire many european nations arosed, the americas growing stronger as well with the mayans, inca, aztechs, middle eastern countries as well, and many more empires as well.

 

-Rise of Europe

The second half of the second millenium was dominated by the expansion of European power around the world. Why Europe, which had been a peripheral area during its Middle Ages, came to dominate the planet is one of the most important questions of world history.

 

Other parts of the world had become more advanced than Europe. China had developed an advanced monetary economy by 1000 CE. China had a free peasantry who were no longer subsistence farmers, and could sell their produce and actively participate in the market. The agriculture was highly productive. China was the most urbanized region in Eurasia. It enjoyed a technological advantage over the rest of the Eurasian world and had a monopoly in cast-iron production, piston bellows, suspension-bridge construction, printing and the compass. (see Joseph Needham). Just to the east of Europe the Islamic civilizations of the Middle East are often considered to have been the world's most advanced, making important discoveries in mathematics, geography, and philosophy. Northern India was also highly prosperous.

 

There are a number of explanations for why Europe rose to surpass these other civilizations to dominate the rest of the world and be the home of the Industrial Revolution. Max Weber argued it was due to a Protestant work ethic, that encouraged Europeans to work harder and longer than their fellows. Another sociological explanation looks at demographics, Europe with its celibate clergy and late age of marriage had far more restrained population growth, and surpluses could be invested in luxuries rather than in a simple expansion of the population. Many have also argued that Europe's institutions were superior, that property rights, and free market economics were all stronger in Europe than in elsewhere in the world. In recent years scholars such as Kenneth Pomeranz have challenged this view.

 

Europe's geography may have also played an important role. The Middle East, India, and China are all ringed by mountains, but once past these outer barriers all are relatively flat. By contrast the Alps, Pyrenees, and other mountain ranges run through Europe, and the continent is also divided by several seas. This gave Europe some degree of protection from the peril of Central Asian invaders. In the era before firearms, all of Eurasia was threatened by the horsemen of the Central Asian steppe. They were militarily superior to the agricultural states on the periphery of the continent, and if they broke out into the plains of Northern India or the valleys of China were all but unstoppable. These invasions were often devastating. The Golden Age of Islam was ended by the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258, and both India and China were also subject to periodic invasions. Europe, especially Western Europe, was far less subject to these threats.

 

The geography also contributed to important geopolitical differences. For most of their histories China, India and the Middle East were unified under a single dominant power that expanded until it reached the surrounding mountains and deserts. In 1600 the Ottoman Empire controlled almost all the Middle East, the Ming Dynasty dominated China, and the Mughal Empire had control over India. By contrast European was almost always divided among a number of warring states. Pan-European empires, with the major exception of the earlier Roman Empire, tended to collapse as soon as they arose. The intense competition between rival states is often portrayed as one source of Europe's success. In other regions stability was often a higher priority than growth. For instance, China's growth as a maritime power was restricted by the Hai jin of the Ming Dynasty. In Europe such a blanket ban would have been impossible due to disunity, and if any one state imposed such a restriction they would have quickly fallen behind their competitors.

 

i quoted that due to the big question that goes with this age of mankind due to the advances of civilizations and what not. but it does raise several questions which are mention through out that quote about how it came to be.

 

and then the biggest human revolution would come into play with the most extreme ways of rational thought since the first fire was lite oh so long ago with the Age of Discovery

When some of the greatest scientits, artistsm writes, would help expand the human mind in thought and word and also when the ancient empires started to fall and central governments begin to form to unify the people of the land as well. and then then the also began the fall of the english empire with the discovery of the Americas by christopher columbus in 1492.

 

1600-2006 with the landing of the pilgrims of the early 1600s destruction of mankind both ancient and present began to unravel, last 400 years many wars have been fought, rational though not a care when power and money where the way of life, many great nations falling under the collapse of religous trasnformation and the birth of a new nation that in less then 300 years would become a nation of the greatest power since ancient rome and europe. Also comes the age of new technologies and inventions for the world to enjoy. Then the way of life for everyone would change when the atom bomb was dropped to end a war and thus begin the nuclear age. and then the greatest war of human kind would being as well on September 11. 2001, the war of exsistance.

 

2005-beyond who knows what will happen but hopefully the time of peace can come when everyone is happy, most of us will never see it in our lifetime but hopefully we can set it in motion for our children and grand-children.

 

 

term to learn- BCE, CE, BC, AD these letters stand for the time of man starting year after jesus was born, but many debates have been with this for awhile but to get a better understanding of this go here

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era

[Cerebral Stasis 0]

-Paleolithic is the when the first exsistance of man began with the wheel, the first ancient weapons and tools of survival. and the use of animals and plant life.

Funny, I thought the wheel was invented just a few years ago.

 

Very informative, Saint. Thanks for the information. In my opinion, however, there was an age of humans that came before the Paleolithic age (a pre-stone age, if you will, when man first discovered him/herself).

[Plenoptic 0]

I myself have been introduced to early civilizations through world history. They talked the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Chinese, Romans, Indians and so on. Of course everything was different back then and they didn't have much to work with and every new invention was a great help to them. My religion believes in the Adam and Eve though as well and the apple with the snake. Anything could be true because what they all say isn't all necessarily true. They even say there might have been some type of living civilization, not necessarily humans, but something before dinosaurs. It is a very interesting topic but still bores me. lol school

[Cerebral Stasis 0]

It sounds interesting to me. I've always considered the possibility that humans (or someone/thing else) was at least as advanced as we are today (or farther) sometime in the distant past.By the way, the Bible never claims that the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil was an apple; people apparently just assume it was.

[Hiaito 0]

Saint...you kinda answered your own question.(From the title.)

[wariorpk 0]

I personally think it is almost impossible to find when human civilization began. It seems to me that even though scientists are finding older and older artifacts showing how long humans have been around it is fully possible they have been around long enough to where the oldest artifacts no longer exist because they turned to dust.

[Saint_Michael 3]

Saint...you kinda answered your own question.

 

(From the title.)

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ahaha

 

well the only artifacts of the aciten humans is skeletal remains you be surprise on the conditions they find some of these skeletons at. look at the iceman 5,000 year in the ice and he came out after the fact well preserved for hte condition he as in.

[hulunes 0]

yeah...it is really informative history text.i am awkward to know a little about world history. can just learn some historic and important event,hehe

[kasm 0]

Since the dawn of mankind the question of exsistance has been in our minds since the laws of rational thought first began when fire was created by accident by the first ancient cilivilation of man, oh so long ago (i think 2 weeks ago ). Many theories have arisen most of them scientific through the use of biology and the first mentioning of molecule in 1811 by Avogadro and put in to practice in 1911 by Perrin.

 

and then later on evolution came in to play in 1858 by darwin which pretty much made alot of relgious fenatics scream and moan for the last 100 years about it as well.

 

Of course we cannot forget the God Theory thats right theory, since no one has yet to proven or it has shown up yet to us. that we have been created by an all powerful being to us as play things.

 

But of the course the history of man has been proven through the ages buy chance encounters and great discoveries of man. one of them being a skeletal remains of 7 million old skull fragment discovered in 2002 meaning man has been in exsistance for a very long time. But which comes into play the whole we came from monkeys, which in fact we are like 95-98% are alike dna wise.

 

But we the people seekinh the truth have broken down our history to ages

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1. This thread titled " civilization" but it mentioned the disputed matter about Evolution and the Age of Earth.

 

2. Yes for your " no one has yet to proven or it has shown up yet to us. that we have been created by an all powerful being to us..". But in the same time no one can be of sure that :" fire was created by accident by the first ancient cilivilation of man" . This is also view or belief. I agree with it because no another explanation or sugesstion. The same I agree about the histroy of mankind given in Gensis because it is our heritage from generation to next since Adam and no another convinced explanation Nothing in hisory recorded before 8000 years. Also no civilization could be found more than 7000 years. see [Choronology of the beginning of civilization 4000 bc to 401 B.C, but before that it classified prehistory at : http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

3. I am Coptic i.e native Egyptian before invasion of Arab. My ancesstors the ancient Egyptian left traces up to about 5500 years.

 

4. The same the civilization in Iraq (babeleon or Mesopotamia ) or Syrian (Asyrian) has trace to before Abraham. Jews and Hebrews know their Patriarch Father Abraham is. In the same time he is the father of Arabs [they called him Ibrahim] and many other nations. Some archology shows trace to the time of Lot. Recently the space photos showd the trace of the two missing rivers and with the 2 rivers in Iraq, it completes the 4 rivers in Aden Garden mentioned in Gensis. see ...the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

 

5. Abraham knows his granfathers till Adam. But no civiliasion showd before that .Then these 7 million Skul fragement either it belongs to non civiliside creation or the invistigator manipulate the fosil to be drawn as it is to a human man.or the methods of dating the are not acurate.

 

6. "But which comes into play the whole we came from monkeys" is not right . Even Darwin didn't say that. I was one of the prioner student studied this theory in 1959 i.e 46 years ago when not all student were studied it. I didn't dispute it at all and repeat it in exam as we do now when we quote something said by others.I have gift fro God to rember evey information I got since 3 years of age and when I have got it .That I know of sure that Darwin didn't say that. He and his follower are still looking what they called the missing link.

 

7. Also it is not mean that we are like 95-98% are alike dna wise as in monkey, means that we are from them.

 

I was programmering for the computer since 1964, In our times wasn't software as it now. I considered myself a creator when I produced programs. Because we put the algorithm the draw flow chart then check the flow chart then program using the current computer languages. If there were not ready mathematical methods, we try to drive one. Of course when I programed for prime number , I put idea as when I programmed to factorization(90%). When I programmed for T-test in statistics I put ideas as when I programmed to normal distribution test or f-test.

 

Take another example the Shakspere's Production, the analysis of them can find some similarities. The same for Davinci arts.

 

Another example now days in computer age . You will find many similarities between between Pentimum 3000 and Peintium 3800 but they not produce 3000 to develop the same CPU to become 3800. But the similarities is because the creator is the same (whetever one or team or company)

 

That why I believe that if the DNA for X and Y are similar 80% , it does because the designer or the creator is the same.

[Ousk 0]

Well the dna of creatures on earth are pretty similar not just monkeys and humans. it's logical to be this way because it's linked. I know know if we come from apes, but i don't believe that some bigger force created us specially, maybe it created the universe planets and stuff but did not say "lets create a zebra oh what is missing now.. oh a human." i still think that we evolved from something or even that creatures that resemble us lived on this planet and had the ability to think and understand each other, and they are our ancestors.