More evidence for my theory of older more advanced civilization predating recorded history...
The catholic church controlled Europe; what's the rest of the world's excuse for not having hover cars?
Astronomy was a very important science in antiquity, and a lot of effort was spent on it by alot of people.
The catholic church controlled Europe; what's the rest of the world's excuse for not having hover cars?
China was happy just the way it was and massively stagnated thinking they were the best anyone could ever be till europe came and slapped them around. The middle east actually surpased europe scienficially and was going good, but then they all went batshit insane and took massive steps back like europe did only even worse. Everywhere else never really made much of themselves compared to rome.
One of the remaining mysteries is why the Greek technology invented for the machine seemed to disappear. No other civilisation is believed to have created anything as complex for another 1,000 years.
No ya don't....you do NOT get to use a work of fiction to prove anything.
Using the Bible to prove mythology is as bad as using Wikipedia for college papers...
I DO believe in the "great flood" however, but I'm a bit skeptical of the whole "Noah's Ark" bit...
20th century europeans were unable to move ancient Egyptian statues when the van aswan dam was built. Egypt finally ended up hiring the russians who had to saw the statues into sections in order to move them.
our best modern technology was not equal to 3,000 year old egyptian technology. Don't even mention the great pyramid in egypt, or machu picchu or angor wat or other ancient technological achievements, representing capabilities vastly surpassing the europeans you refer to (my own ancestors).
also are the open questions, unproved yet intriguing, like the vimanas described in anciant literature of india, some which supposedly traveled out into space.
europe was not the most advanced in the world tech speaking.
Islam?
but, do be fair, the most advanced scientific minds of the day existed in the Islamic parts of the world. They were surprisingly less burn-happy and thought-fearing than were their contemporary marauding Christians.
The Chinese were too busy holding off the Mongolians and other crazy nomadic invaders with their damn shitty wall.
Were it not for that, they could have--if they wanted to--conquered the known world quite easily.
The fuckers had god damn FLAME THROWERS some 1000 years before the west. Gun Powder some 800-1000 years, iirc.
If they were capable of conquering the world they wouldn't have had so much trouble dealing with some dirt poor nomads. Their inventions were always rudimentary. It was the middle east and europe that refined the inventions of china into the awesome tools they would be.
bear in mind that they were also busy fighting amongst themselves for some 500 or more years, trying to figure out who was in control of what, long before there was ever a concept of "China."
Rome and Persia succeeded so well b/c there was a single power structure. Once we know who is in charge, let's go out and start conquering. Much in the way that there was no concept of unification amongst the modern Italian states any time before or after the Roman empire (bear in mind that "Italy" was not a name that appeared in the history books before the late 19th century--technically speaking, the USA is an older country).
Ancient China had the military might that would have been more than capable of taking what they wanted, were it not for the extreme hubris amongst the tribes, or clans, or families, whatever you want to call them. Fortunately, this kept them out of the game for so long. Had the current mentality of the Han Chinese of today existed at that time, under a hypothetical unified continent (We own everything, just because, so fuck all youse!-ergo Taiwan, Tibet, etc.), the world would be a very different place.