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Originally Posted by Woogieman
I think the thesis that DJ, Hammock and I would agree to is this: Historians tell us civilization began in the fertile crescent around 3400 BC...the first pyramid was compeleted 800 years later, and the most amazing of them only 900 yrs later. I find it beyond ludicrous that man would build something so difficult, complex, and arduous in such a short period of organized cohabitation. One could even say we peaked architecturally in our first millenium in relative terms. How could a society so new, with so few architectural feats build something that can't confidently be explained today? It just doesn't wash!
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But that again presumes linear progression, does it not?
I mean you could take someone born in 1200 and drop them into 1700 and they'd be awed by it but I don't think they'd think they were on a different planet.
Take someone from 1800 and drop them into 2000 OTOH...
I don't think it's that farfetched to believe there was some triggering event (again, not hard to imagine if it's only in a single cultural region) that led to very fast development in that part of the world that then fell backwards due to a variety of factors that could be as simple as weather.