What Is The 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

 

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

[Punkcat 0]

So what are you stating as the debating question?

[Quatrux 4]

Yep, I also wanted to ask that when reading this post, this is History with which I agree and don't even know what to debate on.

[rainbowsoup 0]

Traditionally the start of civilisation has always been place at the point of invention of writing. Therefore different groups of people have different starting points for their civilisation. The Ancient chinese and egyptians invented writing about 5000 years ago and everything after that is considered history of the civilisation. Of course some civilisations and they are recognised as such do not have writing such as the Incas . They recorded things using knotted threads, and pictures, but we cannot say their's was not a civilisation because it had all the hallmarks of culture.

[Punkcat 0]

I do believe that civilization on the Earth started longer ago than what "writings" or the books normally say. As it was mentioned in the opening post, there are many evidences of advanced technology or civilization that date millions of years before what most scientists affirm the first man walked on earth. Of course, they don't fit in the mainstream theories and are absolutely ignored or taken as fake. These theories are nots een as theories at all, but taken as absolute truths, and cannot be challenged in any way. And one of the main failures in these theories is the method used to identify the age of things. They are so inacurate and cand determine only a huge span of time to which the objects belonged. So most of the "findings" are not more than speculations, used as base for more speculations until a very "solid" base is formed, a base upon which the history is cosntructed.