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The Celts had a self-ruling trade route that stretched from Greece to northern Britain, therefore encompassing many races and cultures Also eastern european countries (Poland, Hungry, Transylvania etc) would make alliances with each other, although these alliances seldom lasted more than a gerneration or two |
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10-03-2002, 07:40 PM | #23 |
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Let's not forget the phoenicians. There's some flake who thinks that they might have voyaged out to NZ.
Oh and there's another flake who thinks that Celts found NZ first, and built stone rings. Geez. I don't even need to get into this from a geological basis, but let me just tell you that the stone "rings" are entirely natural formations. I hate it when people think that 'prehistoric' "primitives" were too stupid to do stuff. Okay, so you'd rather atribute New Zealands first colonists to the Celts, instead of acknowledging how great pacific mariners were???? Oh well, better Celts than aliens, I guess. http://www.celticnz.co.nz/ http://www.zealand.org.nz/history.htm (Note: moriori theories are complete bunk. Back when they only believed on One Great Migration. Now it's believed to be more likely that there were several there and back journeys, and the morioris were just another maori tribe.)
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Personlly I hate the word "PRIMITIVE" when it is used to describe people ..........take your average population of the city/town of your choice, put them in a wild (natural?) environment and see how they fare, that will show us just how "primitive" the people we label as such are If you could choose an event/discovery/invention that would have continued to be developed .......... what would it be folks? I personnally would have loved to have seen William I expand on the domesday book and make Britain the first real nationwide society ........... it would have been a very diferrent country today |
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in the last 10,000 years or so how much has the human brain developed? So there is no eeason why they could not comptrehend and understand the things we know today.
The problem of old was not much was recorded it was passed from father to son or mother to daughter. So if something like a war broke out and that person got killed that skill would be lost. really how advanced are we? Sure we have computers and are ok at medicin but we probably dont have half the skills of people of old. The egyptians have allways facinated me they built the prymind which i long to see just to think wow someone built all this tousands of years ago and i get excited about been able to complete Mario kart
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re: "primitive"
It's funny -- I've thought about this before, how the word "uncivilized" is a much more accurate term to describe people who live simply, outside of the "world society," but it has for some reason a negative connotation, I guess through the way it has been used. But if you think about the word origins, primitive is to me insulting, whereas uncivilized really isn't. Just thought it was interesting that other people don't like that word in descriptions!
EDIT: Okay, maybe insulting isn't the right word, but to me it has a mare negative connotation (characterizing those people as "base"), but uncivilized seems to me to refer to someone who by choice or situation prefers to live without modern "conveniences." Last edited by azalea : 10-04-2002 at 02:17 PM. |
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I don't mind the word primitive much but I think it's used wrongly a lot. Just like the word civilised actually. There is a painttrend (right term?) that's called 'the Flemish primitives' and they are far from primitive, let me tell you that.
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10-04-2002, 03:32 PM | #31 | |
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You know how I'm reading the Code Book? Well, it's got a quite a few examples of "co-invention." You really should read it - it's fascinating! And at the risk of sounding completely flakey here, in a sense, I do believe in a sort of hive-mentality. There are quite a few examples of early hominid tool technology being developed at around the same time, even though they were separated by geographic barriers: some can be explained, trade networks, etc, but some cannot, ie bodies of water. I think that media has just enabled us to be more efficient at this so-called hive-mentality. Sween: The pyramids have always fascinated me as well... so much so, that it was my minor at university. Go here to check out the Cheops mystery: http://www.cheops.org/startpage/themystery/mystery.htm
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Very interesting link, Bop.
Did any one see 'Egypt' on national geographic? They send another robot up in those shafts.
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The internet is certainly giving everyone access to more knowledge and this will accelerate the our adavancement in the future.......most people decide what to do with their lives after a flash of inspiration (the "wow I want to do that" factor ) and the internet (media in general actually) gives us access to more information than any other generation could even dream of, all it needs is something to spark an interest and .......whoosh someones designed the warp engine/supercomputer/improved food processor/wotever Someone may even be inspired to study linguistics after reading this post and go on to develop a language that is accessable to all cultures (seeing as Esperanto refuses to be accepted by the mainstream)..............but somehow I doubt it, not from this post anyway |
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Regarding Sween's comment that our brains haven't changed, do you have to physically alter the body, to evolve? The acquisition of knowledge, is this evolving? I can use a computer (actually, this is debatable ), but I can't build one, so I haven't really upped myself. Hmmm, we know a lot more than ancient peoples, but we can't necessarily DO more, we are rapidly losing the ability to feed ourselves (without a store to purchase the food at) also making shelter, etc. So are we better, or worse? Our machines are evolving , we are Devo! Aaack..
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Speaking of Atlantis, some people belive that Cuba is the tip of where it used to be. There is also another 'lost continent' called Mau, is there not?
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Humans are above other animals because we have a far superior abaility to learn and an oposiable thumb. Ive allways thought that intellegence is just something that you are born with myself i could do with a bit more BoP obviosly has too much (thanks 4 the link by the way) as do a few other people here
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