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I have a large, coffee table book called "The Atlas of World History" and in it, the entire history of humanity is displayed via maps. From the migration out of Africa across the world, to the founding of the first city-states, to the endless wars and conquests which have shaped our very beings, it's all here. A fantastic book and I highly recommend if you like history and maps. I've been reading it daily for years, and it's given me a much deeper understanding of human history, to wit: We're literally babes in the wood. Official history - i.e. written records - starts approximately 3,500BCE - so about 5,500 years ago. While that might seem like a long time, from any other perspective though, it's a blink of the eye. Agriculture started in the Turkey/Syria region about 10,000BCE. And before that, it's 200,000 years of hunting and gathering. And that 200,000 years is the entire history of humanity, because according to current study, there were no Homo Sapiens prior to that, but rather, different people. Some of these people continued alongside the newly minted humans for awhile - fun fact to know and share: Nearderthals are believed to have finally died out only 35,000 years ago in Spain. So, for a long, long time - much longer than our current period of "history", mankind lived with other "people". How did this affect our formation? Our myth? Our beliefs? Fire was first controlled by people before humans - the awesomely named Homo Erectus. Homo Erectus took his fire all over the world as well. But he's gone, as is the Neanderthals and all the other pre-humans, leaving only us. And we just got here! Art began about 20,000 years ago. Here's a classic example found across Europe and into Russia:  These people 20,000 years ago were technically no different than you or I. Same biology, same minds. And yet, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the current Information Age, we are changing, I think. This mode of communication we're using right now is changing us. Makes me think. How about you?
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i think op is a fag
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Aug 7, 2014 18:54
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look at that fat chick's pussy lips
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Aug 7, 2014 18:56
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bet ur mom has chode tits like that op
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Aug 7, 2014 18:56
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I have the same book op.
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Aug 7, 2014 18:58
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Lawman 0 posted:I have the same book op. It's great, right? I just bought 2 copies as gifts. It's been out of print for awhile, alas.
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Aug 7, 2014 19:00
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redshirt posted:no Homo How CIS of you op.
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Aug 7, 2014 19:03
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It's cool that the first piece of art was a statue of a lady with huge titties
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Aug 7, 2014 19:04
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redshirt posted:Makes me think. How about you? 200,000 years of history have all been leading to this moment, as I type glyphs into words into sentences which are carried by machine-tongue across a network of cell towers and satellite feeds that millions upon millions of people and hours were used to make, and now at the climax of all those millennia of life, death, war, peace, discovery, development and struggle, I finally have the power to call the OP a tremendous loving human being.
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Aug 7, 2014 19:05
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Aug 7, 2014 19:09
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John Liver posted:200,000 years of history have all been leading to this moment, as I type glyphs into words into sentences which are carried by machine-tongue across a network of cell towers and satellite feeds that millions upon millions of people and hours were used to make, and now at the climax of all those millennia of life, death, war, peace, discovery, development and struggle, I finally have the power to call the OP a tremendous loving human being.
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Aug 7, 2014 19:09
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John Liver posted:200,000 years of history have all been leading to this moment, as I type glyphs into words into sentences which are carried by machine-tongue across a network of cell towers and satellite feeds that millions upon millions of people and hours were used to make, and now at the climax of all those millennia of life, death, war, peace, discovery, development and struggle, I finally have the power to call the OP a tremendous loving human being. lol exactly. Also, the whole "BC" and "AD" (and subsequently "BCE" and "CE") thing is super lame and I wish we could transition past it to a more rational scheme.
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Aug 7, 2014 19:10
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Sounds cool. OP, who is the author there are several books of the same title on amazon. TIA
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Aug 7, 2014 19:18
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redshirt posted:It's great, right? I just bought 2 copies as gifts. It's been out of print for awhile, alas. wasn't it like from 1991 like i'm pretty sure the last page is all "the cold war is over yay!"
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Aug 7, 2014 19:20
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there's only one book you need from amazon it's free and you can use their e-reader for it http://www.amazon.com/Bible-English...&keywords=bible
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Aug 7, 2014 19:20
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this but unironically
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Aug 7, 2014 19:21
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Lawman 0 posted:wasn't it like from 1991 like i'm pretty sure the last page is all "the cold war is over yay!" that narrow window for about ten years there where we were assuming that poo poo might not be garbage forever was real funny in retrospect
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Aug 7, 2014 19:21
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would
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Aug 7, 2014 19:22
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paranoid randroid posted:that narrow window for about ten years there where we were assuming that poo poo might not be garbage forever was real funny in retrospect it was cool watching people desperately look for big bads to play up which why we had things like nod having its headquarters in yugoslavia and iraq being played up forever
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Aug 7, 2014 19:23
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it is the 90s, america, and I need you to be really angry about serbs. or croats. bosniaks? christ, whatever.
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Aug 7, 2014 19:27
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I wonder if my far-gone ancestors ever looked up to the sky and wondered what their descendants would be achieving ten thousand years after dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks
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Aug 7, 2014 19:32
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paranoid randroid posted:it is the 90s, america, and I need you to be really angry about serbs. or croats. bosniaks? christ, whatever. actually I just remembered that they put the nod temple in Sarajevo as it was being sieged irl
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Aug 7, 2014 19:33
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paranoid randroid posted:it is the 90s, america, and I need you to be really angry about serbs. or croats. bosniaks? christ, whatever. slavic fear helped kick off WW1 which means it also helped kick off WW2 so we should probably eliminate them all to prevent future war
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Aug 7, 2014 19:34
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Man has known since the beginning that fat girls are good lays.
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Aug 7, 2014 19:52
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Same.
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Aug 7, 2014 20:08
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Look at them titties.
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Aug 7, 2014 20:36
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its cool how our ancestors were bbw fetishists
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Aug 7, 2014 20:37
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there isnt anywhere near enough mansex in this image
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Aug 7, 2014 20:45
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John Liver posted:200,000 years of history have all been leading to this moment, as I type glyphs into words into sentences which are carried by machine-tongue across a network of cell towers and satellite feeds that millions upon millions of people and hours were used to make, and now at the climax of all those millennia of life, death, war, peace, discovery, development and struggle, I finally have the power to call the OP a tremendous loving human being. That's a lot of effort relative to the payoff.
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Aug 7, 2014 20:46
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dont think cave women looked that good back then but ok
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Aug 7, 2014 20:49
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I'm the weirdo in black armour getting cucked by two dudes rogering Queen Elizabeth the first
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Aug 7, 2014 20:50
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gently caress trophy 2k14 posted:dont think cave women looked that good back then but ok i dunno we did a -lot- of loving back then
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Aug 7, 2014 20:50
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d3c0y2 posted:I'm the weirdo in black armour getting cucked by two dudes rogering Queen Elizabeth the first im the caveman with the giant boner getting cucked by a club to the head
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Aug 7, 2014 20:52
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floresiensis you chode
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Aug 7, 2014 20:52
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nice op
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Aug 7, 2014 20:56
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The BLT posted:Sounds cool. OP, who is the author there are several books of the same title on amazon. TIA Jeremy Black is the editor. Here's a link: http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-World-H...ry+jeremy+black
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Aug 7, 2014 20:59
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Frostwerks posted:floresiensis you chode Why? Erectus controlled fire and is clearly number 1.
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Aug 7, 2014 20:59
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The entirety of human history: gently caress it, Fight it or Eat it.
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Aug 7, 2014 21:07
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1. no goatse, disappointed 2. what is darth vader doing in the last frame? tia
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Lawman 0 posted:its cool how our ancestors were bbw fetishists "Evidence of adequate foodstores" fetishists
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