RE: The dawn of civilization
December 27, 2018 at 4:51 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2018 at 4:53 pm by Gawdzilla Sama.)
(December 27, 2018 at 3:35 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: "People need to just chill out. Fear, anger, aggression. The path to the dark side are theyWhy do you change your font size?
Im changing my approach cos the fear and paranoia is contagious in here and spreads like wildfire.
So instead of starting from modern times I’ll start from ancient times.
Many things define civilization but im taking written language as the major component in this case as it tells us the history…
What are the facts. What do we know
The oldest documented civilizations date back to around 6,000BC and they all started with 2 major changes; agriculture and religion. After this the rest follows. Written language, mathematics, money, trading, taxes and all the other things that make up society. Scientific theory tells us that modern man has walked the earth for 200,000 years."
..... from post #1. It did not originate with me.
We don't know if religion came first or civilization. I think superstition, not organized religion, would have been around for a long time. But religion requires that a caste of people do nothing actually productive, meaning there's a surplus of food. We know that sacrifices entailed the smoke going to "heaven" while the meat was eaten on Earth. From there it seems logical that parasites attached themselves to a thriving civilization.