Once Again the Ancients Show They Were Smarter Than Us

[Weatherman2020]

Exhibit 1,494 showing mankind was much smarter than we are today.

Ancient treatment may help fight 'superbugs'

 

[Asclepias]

Thank you Black people.

 

[fncceo]

Exhibit 1,494 showing mankind was much smarter than we are today.

Ancient treatment may help fight 'superbugs'

The ancients weren't particularly smarter than us. Some of them did pay attention to what was going on around them, even if they didn't particularly understand why things were happening.

The ancients knew that certain substances, metals and honey for example, help fight infection. They observed these things through trial and error. They didn't know the causes of the infection or understand how these substances fought infection ... today, we do know.

The smart ancients knew a lot of very wrong things. The Earth was the center of The Universe, leeches and bloodletting cured diseases. They believed that space was filled with ether.

Some ancients were smart. In around 200 BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the size of the Earth to a very accurate degree without even leaving his home in Egypt. Just with observations of others and a little math. Some people today are just as smart. Collectively, like us, the vast majority were just interested in staying alive, getting by, and what was for dinner.

 

[Issa]

Exhibit 1,494 showing mankind was much smarter than we are today.

Ancient treatment may help fight 'superbugs'

The ancients weren't particularly smarter than us. Some of them did pay attention to what was going on around them, even if they didn't particularly understand why things were happening.

The ancients knew that certain substances, metals and honey for example, help fight infection. They observed these things through trial and error. They didn't know the causes of the infection or understand how these substances fought infection ... today, we do know.

The smart ancients knew a lot of very wrong things. The Earth was the center of The Universe, leeches and bloodletting cured diseases. They believed that space was filled with ether.

Some ancients were smart. In around 200 BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the size of the Earth to a very accurate degree without even leaving his home in Egypt. Just with observations of others and a little math. Some people today are just as smart. Collectively, like us, the vast majority were just interested in staying alive, getting by, and what was for dinner.

Good that you know that ...how about the contribution of the muslims ? Especially those of the moors and the Jews that prospered under the islamic rule till the Christian's started slaughtering both.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Exhibit 1,494 showing mankind was much smarter than we are today.

Ancient treatment may help fight 'superbugs'

The ancients weren't particularly smarter than us. Some of them did pay attention to what was going on around them, even if they didn't particularly understand why things were happening.

The ancients knew that certain substances, metals and honey for example, help fight infection. They observed these things through trial and error. They didn't know the causes of the infection or understand how these substances fought infection ... today, we do know.

The smart ancients knew a lot of very wrong things. The Earth was the center of The Universe, leeches and bloodletting cured diseases. They believed that space was filled with ether.

Some ancients were smart. In around 200 BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the size of the Earth to a very accurate degree without even leaving his home in Egypt. Just with observations of others and a little math. Some people today are just as smart. Collectively, like us, the vast majority were just interested in staying alive, getting by, and what was for dinner.

The ancients were much smarter. I can give you 500 examples in Israel alone.

 

[fncceo]

Exhibit 1,494 showing mankind was much smarter than we are today.

Ancient treatment may help fight 'superbugs'

The ancients weren't particularly smarter than us. Some of them did pay attention to what was going on around them, even if they didn't particularly understand why things were happening.

The ancients knew that certain substances, metals and honey for example, help fight infection. They observed these things through trial and error. They didn't know the causes of the infection or understand how these substances fought infection ... today, we do know.

The smart ancients knew a lot of very wrong things. The Earth was the center of The Universe, leeches and bloodletting cured diseases. They believed that space was filled with ether.

Some ancients were smart. In around 200 BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the size of the Earth to a very accurate degree without even leaving his home in Egypt. Just with observations of others and a little math. Some people today are just as smart. Collectively, like us, the vast majority were just interested in staying alive, getting by, and what was for dinner.

Good that you know that ...how about the contribution of the muslims ? Especially those of the moors and the Jews that prospered under the islamic rule till the Christian's started slaughtering both.

The Greek civilization, sometimes, not always, fostered philosophy and learning. Their civilization was co opted and eventually destroyed by the Romans. The establishment of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates saw a lot of Greek knowledge re-discovered and achieved a lot of new discoveries on their own. When those civilizations declined, much of that knowledge was passed on to Europe when the Xtian civilization had matured enough to start making use of it. It wasn't till the universal acceptance of the Scientific Method after the Renaissance that our ability to examine and learn really came into its own.

There isn't a single civilization on Earth that had a monopoly on science, philosophy, or learning.

 

[fncceo]

Exhibit 1,494 showing mankind was much smarter than we are today.

Ancient treatment may help fight 'superbugs'

The ancients weren't particularly smarter than us. Some of them did pay attention to what was going on around them, even if they didn't particularly understand why things were happening.

The ancients knew that certain substances, metals and honey for example, help fight infection. They observed these things through trial and error. They didn't know the causes of the infection or understand how these substances fought infection ... today, we do know.

The smart ancients knew a lot of very wrong things. The Earth was the center of The Universe, leeches and bloodletting cured diseases. They believed that space was filled with ether.

Some ancients were smart. In around 200 BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the size of the Earth to a very accurate degree without even leaving his home in Egypt. Just with observations of others and a little math. Some people today are just as smart. Collectively, like us, the vast majority were just interested in staying alive, getting by, and what was for dinner.

The ancients were much smarter. I can give you 500 examples in Israel alone.

It depends on what you mean by 'smarter'. If I observe something and link it to something else I've observed, that makes me observant. If I observe something and learn exactly how and why it's happening, that makes me smart.

The men and women of antiquity weren't any smarter than us... they had shining lights of intellect that were few and far between, just as we do today.

 

[Asclepias]

Exhibit 1,494 showing mankind was much smarter than we are today.

Ancient treatment may help fight 'superbugs'

The ancients weren't particularly smarter than us. Some of them did pay attention to what was going on around them, even if they didn't particularly understand why things were happening.

The ancients knew that certain substances, metals and honey for example, help fight infection. They observed these things through trial and error. They didn't know the causes of the infection or understand how these substances fought infection ... today, we do know.

The smart ancients knew a lot of very wrong things. The Earth was the center of The Universe, leeches and bloodletting cured diseases. They believed that space was filled with ether.

Some ancients were smart. In around 200 BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the size of the Earth to a very accurate degree without even leaving his home in Egypt. Just with observations of others and a little math. Some people today are just as smart. Collectively, like us, the vast majority were just interested in staying alive, getting by, and what was for dinner.

Good that you know that ...how about the contribution of the muslims ? Especially those of the moors and the Jews that prospered under the islamic rule till the Christian's started slaughtering both.

The Greek civilization, sometimes, not always, fostered philosophy and learning. Their civilization was co opted and eventually destroyed by the Romans. The establishment of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates saw a lot of Greek knowledge re-discovered and achieved a lot of new discoveries on their own. When those civilizations declined, much of that knowledge was passed on to Europe when the Xtian civilization had matured enough to start making use of it. It wasn't till the universal acceptance of the Scientific Method after the Renaissance that our ability to examine and learn really came into its own.

There isn't a single civilization on Earth that had a monopoly on science, philosophy, or learning.

The African and what we now call the Middle East civilizations however were the first. All knowledge comes from those civilizations. Even the Greeks admit to that.

 

[fncceo]

Exhibit 1,494 showing mankind was much smarter than we are today.

Ancient treatment may help fight 'superbugs'

The ancients weren't particularly smarter than us. Some of them did pay attention to what was going on around them, even if they didn't particularly understand why things were happening.

The ancients knew that certain substances, metals and honey for example, help fight infection. They observed these things through trial and error. They didn't know the causes of the infection or understand how these substances fought infection ... today, we do know.

The smart ancients knew a lot of very wrong things. The Earth was the center of The Universe, leeches and bloodletting cured diseases. They believed that space was filled with ether.

Some ancients were smart. In around 200 BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the size of the Earth to a very accurate degree without even leaving his home in Egypt. Just with observations of others and a little math. Some people today are just as smart. Collectively, like us, the vast majority were just interested in staying alive, getting by, and what was for dinner.

Good that you know that ...how about the contribution of the muslims ? Especially those of the moors and the Jews that prospered under the islamic rule till the Christian's started slaughtering both.

The Greek civilization, sometimes, not always, fostered philosophy and learning. Their civilization was co opted and eventually destroyed by the Romans. The establishment of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates saw a lot of Greek knowledge re-discovered and achieved a lot of new discoveries on their own. When those civilizations declined, much of that knowledge was passed on to Europe when the Xtian civilization had matured enough to start making use of it. It wasn't till the universal acceptance of the Scientific Method after the Renaissance that our ability to examine and learn really came into its own.

There isn't a single civilization on Earth that had a monopoly on science, philosophy, or learning.

The African and what we now call the Middle East civilizations however were the first. All knowledge comes from those civilizations. Even the Greeks admit to that.

In terms of the oldest populations on Earth ... Mesopotamia in modern day Iraq and Kuwait is probably the oldest. They are credited with the discovery of cartography, the plow, and time (although many argue that it was the existence of these technologies allowed disorganized early man to form civilizations and not the civilizations themselves that discovered them).

At about the same time, the Indus Valley civilization (in what is now Northern India and Pakistan) would have certainly co-invented many of the same things. Not much is known about their technology and learning because their written language is still not fully understood.

The Egyptians, were nearly the contemporaries of Mesopotamia developed a highly complex system of math and architecture. They also had a passion for large public works.

The Greeks, whose classical civilization didn't come until much later than the others, drew much of their knowledge from the previous civilizations. The reason we credit the Greeks with so much of what we know today is that, at certain times, they celebrated and revered learning and philosophy. They created academies and universities and left much of their learning behind in books. It was the rediscovery of Greek learning by the Arabs and others that was instrumental in the European Renaissance.

 

[Asclepias]

Exhibit 1,494 showing mankind was much smarter than we are today.

Ancient treatment may help fight 'superbugs'

The ancients weren't particularly smarter than us. Some of them did pay attention to what was going on around them, even if they didn't particularly understand why things were happening.

The ancients knew that certain substances, metals and honey for example, help fight infection. They observed these things through trial and error. They didn't know the causes of the infection or understand how these substances fought infection ... today, we do know.

The smart ancients knew a lot of very wrong things. The Earth was the center of The Universe, leeches and bloodletting cured diseases. They believed that space was filled with ether.

Some ancients were smart. In around 200 BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the size of the Earth to a very accurate degree without even leaving his home in Egypt. Just with observations of others and a little math. Some people today are just as smart. Collectively, like us, the vast majority were just interested in staying alive, getting by, and what was for dinner.

Good that you know that ...how about the contribution of the muslims ? Especially those of the moors and the Jews that prospered under the islamic rule till the Christian's started slaughtering both.

The Greek civilization, sometimes, not always, fostered philosophy and learning. Their civilization was co opted and eventually destroyed by the Romans. The establishment of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates saw a lot of Greek knowledge re-discovered and achieved a lot of new discoveries on their own. When those civilizations declined, much of that knowledge was passed on to Europe when the Xtian civilization had matured enough to start making use of it. It wasn't till the universal acceptance of the Scientific Method after the Renaissance that our ability to examine and learn really came into its own.

There isn't a single civilization on Earth that had a monopoly on science, philosophy, or learning.

The African and what we now call the Middle East civilizations however were the first. All knowledge comes from those civilizations. Even the Greeks admit to that.

In terms of the oldest populations on Earth ... Mesopotamia in modern day Iraq and Kuwait is probably the oldest. They are credited with the discovery of cartography, the plow, and time (although many argue that it was the existence of these technologies allowed disorganized early man to form civilizations and not the civilizations themselves that discovered them).

At about the same time, the Indus Valley civilization (in what is now Northern India and Pakistan) would have certainly co-invented many of the same things. Not much is known about their technology and learning because their written language is still not fully understood.

The Egyptians, were nearly the contemporaries of Mesopotamia developed a highly complex system of math and architecture. They also had a passion for large public works.

The Greeks, whose classical civilization didn't come until much later than the others, drew much of their knowledge from the previous civilizations. The reason we credit the Greeks with so much of what we know today is that, at certain times, they celebrated and revered learning and philosophy. They created academies and universities and left much of their learning behind in books. It was the rediscovery of Greek learning by the Arabs and others that was instrumental in the European Renaissance.

The Greeks referred to the area from what we now call Africa proper all the way to India as Ethiopia. They knew these civilizations shared information and indeed India even has some areas named after African kings. There was a group known as the Maa Confederation. You should check it out.

 

[Deno]

Exhibit 1,494 showing mankind was much smarter than we are today.

Ancient treatment may help fight 'superbugs'

The ancients weren't particularly smarter than us. Some of them did pay attention to what was going on around them, even if they didn't particularly understand why things were happening.

The ancients knew that certain substances, metals and honey for example, help fight infection. They observed these things through trial and error. They didn't know the causes of the infection or understand how these substances fought infection ... today, we do know.

The smart ancients knew a lot of very wrong things. The Earth was the center of The Universe, leeches and bloodletting cured diseases. They believed that space was filled with ether.

Some ancients were smart. In around 200 BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the size of the Earth to a very accurate degree without even leaving his home in Egypt. Just with observations of others and a little math. Some people today are just as smart. Collectively, like us, the vast majority were just interested in staying alive, getting by, and what was for dinner.

Good that you know that ...how about the contribution of the muslims ? Especially those of the moors and the Jews that prospered under the islamic rule till the Christian's started slaughtering both.

The Greek civilization, sometimes, not always, fostered philosophy and learning. Their civilization was co opted and eventually destroyed by the Romans. The establishment of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates saw a lot of Greek knowledge re-discovered and achieved a lot of new discoveries on their own. When those civilizations declined, much of that knowledge was passed on to Europe when the Xtian civilization had matured enough to start making use of it. It wasn't till the universal acceptance of the Scientific Method after the Renaissance that our ability to examine and learn really came into its own.

There isn't a single civilization on Earth that had a monopoly on science, philosophy, or learning.

The African and what we now call the Middle East civilizations however were the first. All knowledge comes from those civilizations. Even the Greeks admit to that.

Yea they are just tearing it up in the smart department….

That’s why they live like shit and are constantly fighting and killing each other…..

 

[Weatherman2020]

Exhibit 1,494 showing mankind was much smarter than we are today.

Ancient treatment may help fight 'superbugs'

The ancients weren't particularly smarter than us. Some of them did pay attention to what was going on around them, even if they didn't particularly understand why things were happening.

The ancients knew that certain substances, metals and honey for example, help fight infection. They observed these things through trial and error. They didn't know the causes of the infection or understand how these substances fought infection ... today, we do know.

The smart ancients knew a lot of very wrong things. The Earth was the center of The Universe, leeches and bloodletting cured diseases. They believed that space was filled with ether.

Some ancients were smart. In around 200 BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the size of the Earth to a very accurate degree without even leaving his home in Egypt. Just with observations of others and a little math. Some people today are just as smart. Collectively, like us, the vast majority were just interested in staying alive, getting by, and what was for dinner.

The ancients were much smarter. I can give you 500 examples in Israel alone.

It depends on what you mean by 'smarter'. If I observe something and link it to something else I've observed, that makes me observant. If I observe something and learn exactly how and why it's happening, that makes me smart.

The men and women of antiquity weren't any smarter than us... they had shining lights of intellect that were few and far between, just as we do today.

Romans built aqueducts that are still in use 2,000 years later. Built at a perfect pitch so to keep water moving yet not create too much water pressure in the end.

Roadwork at my old house on a drainage system created a pond in the middle of the road.

Romans built the coliseum in Rome in 5 years. If it had not been pilfered for materials it could still be used today.

Stadium today is lucky to be built in 5 years. And it’s obsolete and torn down in 40 years.

 

[fncceo]

Exhibit 1,494 showing mankind was much smarter than we are today.

Ancient treatment may help fight 'superbugs'

The ancients weren't particularly smarter than us. Some of them did pay attention to what was going on around them, even if they didn't particularly understand why things were happening.

The ancients knew that certain substances, metals and honey for example, help fight infection. They observed these things through trial and error. They didn't know the causes of the infection or understand how these substances fought infection ... today, we do know.

The smart ancients knew a lot of very wrong things. The Earth was the center of The Universe, leeches and bloodletting cured diseases. They believed that space was filled with ether.

Some ancients were smart. In around 200 BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the size of the Earth to a very accurate degree without even leaving his home in Egypt. Just with observations of others and a little math. Some people today are just as smart. Collectively, like us, the vast majority were just interested in staying alive, getting by, and what was for dinner.

The ancients were much smarter. I can give you 500 examples in Israel alone.

It depends on what you mean by 'smarter'. If I observe something and link it to something else I've observed, that makes me observant. If I observe something and learn exactly how and why it's happening, that makes me smart.

The men and women of antiquity weren't any smarter than us... they had shining lights of intellect that were few and far between, just as we do today.

Romans built aqueducts that are still in use 2,000 years later. Built at a perfect pitch so to keep water moving yet not create too much water pressure in the end.

Roadwork at my old house on a drainage system created a pond in the middle of the road.

Romans built the coliseum in Rome in 5 years. If it had not been pilfered for materials it could still be used today.

Stadium today is lucky to be built in 5 years. And it’s obsolete and torn down in 40 years.

The ancients built impressive buildings, no doubt about that. One of the reasons they have lasted as long as they have is that their lack of modern engineering techniques required them to over-build their structures. The Romans used concrete just as we do, but they couldn't reinforce concrete with pre-stressed steel rods which make the concrete structures lighter, cheaper, and stronger ... but, ironically, causes them to have a shorter life span.

Thanks to the creation of Calculus, we can now design structures that are mathematically proven to withstand the required pressures before construction even begins. The dome of The Parthenon actually collapsed several times during the construction until, by trial and error, they hit on the right design and weight to make it stay up. They didn't have the math to be able to predict what the stresses would be and build accordingly.

The fact that the ancients could build things we have today only proves they're as smart, it doesn't make them smarter.

The ancients couldn't even conceive of what is required to build skyscrapers, suspension bridges that span for miles, or tunnels that run under the oceans. Not because they were less smart than we, but because it takes time and the kinds of insights that only happen rarely to invent all the math, engineering, materials, and technology required to do so.

The structures or Rome, Egypt, the Babylonians, the Mayans, and the Indus Valley people are impressive because they built them with such primitive knowledge.

If I five-year-old finger paints ... it goes on the fridge. If a thirty-five-year-old does it, it goes in the garbage ... unless his name is Jackson Pollock.