Three Prehistoric Alternate Histories.
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Date: 2022-07-15
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Lucas,
There are so many animals my ancestors, who first settled here in Texas, were able to see that Ill never be able to. Theres the native elk and the Texas wolf, to name a few, and even more that have just been exiled, like bison, beavers, and bears, and up until recently, bighorn sheep. Without the bison, the natural shrub mixed with grassland and woodland of central Texas had turned into giant cedar thickets, with the occasional break where a suburb has been built. Sorry Im a bit of a Texan nationalist, and its causes me to whine about the virtues of Texas, and sometimes the injustices done to Texas, every chance I get.
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There are so many animals my ancestors, who first settled here in Texas, were able to see that Ill never be able to. Theres the native elk and the Texas wolf, to name a few, and even more that have just been exiled, like bison, beavers, and bears, and up until recently, bighorn sheep. Without the bison, the natural shrub mixed with grassland and woodland of central Texas had turned into giant cedar thickets, with the occasional break where a suburb has been built. Sorry Im a bit of a Texan nationalist, and its causes me to whine about the virtues of Texas, and sometimes the injustices done to Texas, every chance I get.
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Toq
10: 31 This is a popular argument among race deniers, that humans share 99. 9% of our genes and that somehow invalidates any scientific validity to race. However that's like saying that if you're wearing a green shirt and I'm wearing a purple shirt we're essentially wearing the same shirt since there's such a small difference between our shirts. That. 1% is important. It accounts for hair color, eye color, skin color, and yes various behavioral stuff including probably at least to some degree intelligence. It's such a meaningless and absurd argument that it makes race deniers sound like flat earthers.
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10: 31 This is a popular argument among race deniers, that humans share 99. 9% of our genes and that somehow invalidates any scientific validity to race. However that's like saying that if you're wearing a green shirt and I'm wearing a purple shirt we're essentially wearing the same shirt since there's such a small difference between our shirts. That. 1% is important. It accounts for hair color, eye color, skin color, and yes various behavioral stuff including probably at least to some degree intelligence. It's such a meaningless and absurd argument that it makes race deniers sound like flat earthers.
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livingood1049
Thank you for mentioning the cataclysm 11, 000 years ago in what is today Western Canada. Whether it was an asteroid, coronal mass ejection, or primitive hunter gatherers building too many fires it doesn't matter. What matters is there was a tremendous event that raised global sea levels over 400' and swallowed up any evidence of the prior civilization, advanced or not.
I personally find it extremely hard to believe that we as sapien Erectus males had 200, 000++ years with these hands and this brain to do nothing but scratch rocks!
I find that very hard to believe.
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Thank you for mentioning the cataclysm 11, 000 years ago in what is today Western Canada. Whether it was an asteroid, coronal mass ejection, or primitive hunter gatherers building too many fires it doesn't matter. What matters is there was a tremendous event that raised global sea levels over 400' and swallowed up any evidence of the prior civilization, advanced or not.
I personally find it extremely hard to believe that we as sapien Erectus males had 200, 000++ years with these hands and this brain to do nothing but scratch rocks!
I find that very hard to believe.
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Silas
Is nobody else weirded out by how much hotter it was during the Medieval warm period than it is now with Global Warming? Despite all the fear mongering, they weren't dying off in droves in Medieval times as a result of environmental disasters. They had a long way to get to where we are now obviously, but they were OK. I'm not saying Global Warming is bogus or anything, but we can all afford to chill out
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Is nobody else weirded out by how much hotter it was during the Medieval warm period than it is now with Global Warming? Despite all the fear mongering, they weren't dying off in droves in Medieval times as a result of environmental disasters. They had a long way to get to where we are now obviously, but they were OK. I'm not saying Global Warming is bogus or anything, but we can all afford to chill out
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Gyrostat
The problem with hunter - gatherer communities is that if even a minor drought happens, they can really go to crap quick. Agriculture allows food surpluses for these disasters. Also, though spring and summer might be comparitivly easy for hunter - gatherers, since they don't have to work as hard as field workers, there is always a part of the year where getting food can be really hard
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The problem with hunter - gatherer communities is that if even a minor drought happens, they can really go to crap quick. Agriculture allows food surpluses for these disasters. Also, though spring and summer might be comparitivly easy for hunter - gatherers, since they don't have to work as hard as field workers, there is always a part of the year where getting food can be really hard
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Anvos
I think you underestimate human curiosity. Somebody would have eventually figured out agriculture just by observing nature and applying basic logic that if I can make more plants and trees that produce edible stuff that is good. Let alone the old and less physically able in society would still have to try and do something to justify not leaving them to die.
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I think you underestimate human curiosity. Somebody would have eventually figured out agriculture just by observing nature and applying basic logic that if I can make more plants and trees that produce edible stuff that is good. Let alone the old and less physically able in society would still have to try and do something to justify not leaving them to die.
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Mike
A Neanderthal-dominated world, that's interesting. Would they have evolved language and abstract thinking enough to have recognizable centralized states, technology, and art like ours? Would there be anybody capable of imagining us and comparing their society to ours? Or would even the question be non-understandable and insignificant to them?
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A Neanderthal-dominated world, that's interesting. Would they have evolved language and abstract thinking enough to have recognizable centralized states, technology, and art like ours? Would there be anybody capable of imagining us and comparing their society to ours? Or would even the question be non-understandable and insignificant to them?
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Nicholas
Seleucids didnt have elephants until after they already had a good military.
Carthage was originally a colony, the culture already had a developed military before getting access to elephants.
So you are still on point they arent really exceptions.
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Seleucids didnt have elephants until after they already had a good military.
Carthage was originally a colony, the culture already had a developed military before getting access to elephants.
So you are still on point they arent really exceptions.
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Billie
I've always romanticized the idea that horses survived in North America and were domesticated by North American peoples. Some say the Native American's were among the best light cavalry in the world. How would 15, 000 years of practice have improved that!
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I've always romanticized the idea that horses survived in North America and were domesticated by North American peoples. Some say the Native American's were among the best light cavalry in the world. How would 15, 000 years of practice have improved that!
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