The Super Summary of World History - Alan Dale Daniel [299]
[49] Genesis 4: 1-16
[50] Freud would say human beings were irrational, and this may prove it. See Sigmund Freud under 1900: The Dividing Line to the Modern World in this tome.
[51] Not so in Meso-America. The Mayan, Aztecs, and Incas—just to name three—did not establish their great cities on major rivers. As time went on in the ancient world many cities would be established away from great rivers (Hattus, the Hittite capitol, and Nineveh, the Assyrian capitol for example).
[52] Here is an example: assume a civilization grew up before 15,000 BC in the area of present day Moscow. Then the latest ice-age hit and the massive mile thick glaciers scraped the area clean. How could such a civilization be found? The moraines in front of the glaciers might contain some evidence, but it would be shattered & pulverized evidence, to say the least.
[53] Science has not explained how life can come from dead matter, or how human consciousness developed, or where races of people came from. to name a few items. Plus, science does not answer why, it answers how.
[54] God’s truth is “revealed” to man; that is, the gods tell man what is good or evil as man cannot discover the god’s truth on their own. Note how virtue differs: in Norse society killing the enemy is a large virtue, in Christian society one is encouraged to love ones enemies.
[55] Israel, Syria; India, Pakistan; Iran, Iraq . . . etc.
[56] From this point forward, dates will be rendered with the year only, unless we specifically are referring to BC dates; thus, a date with no AD or BC is assumed to be AD.
[57] Note that in spite of the Mongol invasion and conquest of China, its culture, language, and administration remained nearly the same right into modern times.
[58] “Witch hunters” as they styled themselves. One stated that his book on how to detect witches was covered with the skin of a witch. The killing began about 1250 and lasted until 1712 (the last witch trial in England). In 1487, the height of the witch hunts, a book was published describing witches’ habits and how to detect them named Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches). Thousands died from these inquisitions across Europe, and men were often killed as well as women, but women seemed to have borne the brunt of the mania.
[59] Through Islam, oddly enough. Islam never took these ancient ideas into their philosophy. In the West they caused a revolution, in the Islamic world, nothing.
[60] Ancient Egypt stayed as it was for four thousand years for a reason; new ideas were avoided to maintain the status quo.
[61] Devout Muslims say the original language of the Koran is pure, and even translations to another language corrupt the book. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades, Spencer, 2005, Regnery Publishing, Inc
[62] Note this was 5 years before Columbus sailed for India in 1492. All of Europe knew the Portuguese had turned the south coast of Africa, and everyone figured the way to India around Africa was now a Portuguese monopoly.
[63] This was one of the most important naval engagements in history. Vasco de Gama was brilliant in the handling of his fleet, and the victory ended Muslim dominance of the Indian Ocean till this day (2010).
[64] The Discoverers: a History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself by Boorstin, Daniel J. 2001, is one of the best books on this subject.
[65] They were called Indians because Columbus thought he had reached India, or the Indies. The inappropriate name stuck.
[66] Cortez conquered the Aztecs in 1521, and Pizarro conquered the Incas in 1532.
[67] Atlantis is the most commonly referred to point of origin for cultures that are thousands of miles apart but manage to think and build much the same. Plato aside, there is no physical or other proof for the existence of Atlantis as a continent or a culture. Too bad, because it would be a lot of fun if such a place had existed.
[68] Although in Egypt they advanced to a smooth-sided pyramid.
[69] Understand that this blood sacrifice entailed cutting the heart out of a living