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Early Civilization Part 1 · Urantia Radio

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  All right, we're going to have some fun, a little bit of fun,
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  and go back in time and look at early human history in the
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  previous. Podcast I said to you that.
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  The Urantia book is not only a. Revolution.
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  Revelation. Of new truth.
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  It is. Also a revelation of humanity
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  because 99% of human history is unknown to us.
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  We have no idea. I mean we.
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  Could sort of piece it. Together a little here and
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  there, but there are more questions than there are
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  answered answers by most anthropologists, so I.
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  Thought I would share with you that section of the book.
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  The Urantia Book, Part 3 primarily.
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  So we'll kind of start with Paper 81, which is entitled
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  Development of Modern Civilization and we'll skim
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  through some of this and. We will reveal to you.
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  Some of that missing history as we continue with the Rancho.
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  Radio Podcast. We're going to take a trip back
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  in time. All right, so the.
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  Beginning of paper 81 reads that.
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  Regardless of the. Ups and downs of the miscarriage
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  of the plan for world betterment projected in the missions.
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  Of both calagasia. And Adam, the basic organic
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  evolution of the human. Races or species?
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  Continued. To carry the races forward in
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  the. Scale of human progress and
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  racial development. It reads that evolution can be
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  delayed, but it cannot be stopped.
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  So, notwithstanding, paraphrasing the miscarriage,
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  the default of our planetary Prince Caligaspia, and then
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  later. The default of.
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  Adam and Eve. Which is partially recorded.
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  In the book of. Genesis, they say that the
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  scale. Of human progress did continue.
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  Despite these setbacks, because as they say.
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  Evolution can be delayed, but it cannot be stopped the influence
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  of the violent race, they say, though a number is smaller than
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  had been planned, produced in advance in civilization, which
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  since the days of Adam. Far exceeded the progress.
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  Of mankind throughout its entire previous existence of almost
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  1,000,000. Years for about. 35,000 years
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  after the days of. Adam The.
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  Cradle of civilization was in southwestern Asia, extending
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  from the Nile Valley eastward and slightly to the north,
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  across northern Arabia, through Mesopotamia and into Turkistan
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  and climate. Was the decisive.
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  Factor in the establishment of civilization in that area.
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  It was. A great climatic and geologic
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  change that took place in northern Africa and western Asia
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  that terminated the early migrations of the Adamites,
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  barred them from Europe by the expanded Mediterranean and
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  diverting the stream of migration north and east into
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  Turkistan. So they're saying that the Great
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  Migration of the Adamites, which was based in what is known as
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  Babylon, essentially it was. It was too.
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  Difficult to migrate into Western Asia and Northern
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  Africa. But it was favorable for this.
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  Small pocket, maybe a few 1000 Adamites and they traveled
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  northward and eastward towards the Caspian region and into
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  central. Asia, which is.
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  Why we have many of the early religions, the Akkadians, the
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  Urartians and others, and then of.
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  Course the architectural. Finds they they find in these.
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  Areas are the. Remnants of these early,
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  expanding and quite progressive Ant Adamites.
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  Even Lake Van is named after one of the earlier Nodites, Van.
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  It reads by. The time of the completion of
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  these land elevations and associated climatic changes
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  around 15,000 BC, civilization had settled down to a worldwide
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  stalemate except. For the cultural.
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  Ferments and biological. Reserves.
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  Of the Andites. That's still.
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  Confined by mountains to the east and Asia, and by the
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  expanding forests. In Europe to the West.
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  So this amalgamated race now of the earlier Nodites and the
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  Adamites became the Andites and they were the predominant
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  cultural influence about 15,000 years ago.
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  But they were. Stuck in this area, they
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  couldn't expand. Outward too effectively.
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  Because of the climate. And it reads that climate or
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  climatic evolution is now about to accomplish what all?
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  Other efforts failed to do that is.
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  To compel EUR Asian man to abandon hunting for the more
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  advanced callings of herding and farming.
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  So, Hunter Herder. You heard that?
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  Expression say I mean because of the climate in that.
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  Area the. Cradle of civilization, it was
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  the climate that. Forced us through.
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  The environment to move away from hunting and more into
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  herding and farming, and that it ends with a common evolution may
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  be slow. But it is terribly effective it.
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  Writes that since slaves were so generally employed.
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  By the earlier. Agriculturist The farmer was
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  formerly looked down on by both the hunter and the.
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  Herder for ages. It was considered menial to till
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  the. Soil, Wherefore the idea that
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  soil toil is a curse, whereas it is the greatest.
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  Of all blessings, even in the days of Cain and Abel, the.
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  Sacrifices of the pastoral life were held.
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  In greater esteem than the offerings of.
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  Of the agriculture. And hence that's why Cain and
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  Abel had a huge fight. Man ordinarily evolved into a
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  farmer from a hunter by transition through the era.
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  Of the herder. And this was also true among the
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  Andites. Now remember the Andites are the
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  amalgamated race of the Nodites, which is more of the human
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  element. That was uplifted by the
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  Calogastia. 100 and the Adamites.
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  So 2 advanced races that amalgamated into becoming the
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  Adamites. We all have Andite, we all have
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  Andite blood in us. A contribution of 1's, one kind
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  of human stock and the other, and I'm just throwing these in
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  so that for those people who are not as familiar with the text
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  can understand what they're talking about.
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  But more often, it reads, the evolutionary coercion of
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  climatic necessity would. Cause whole tribes to pass.
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  Directly from hunters. To successful farmers, but this.
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  Phenomena of passing immediately from hunting to.
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  Agriculture only occurred. In those regions.
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  Where there was a high degree of race.
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  Mixture. With the Violet stock, so
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  there's they're. Implying here that it.
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  Was the higher. Races the smarter of the
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  ancestors. That took to.
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  Farming easier than the more baser human stock the aboriginal
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  humans, the evolutionary peoples, notably the Chinese,
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  early learned to plant seeds and to.
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  Cultivate crops. Through observation of the
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  sprouting of seeds accidentally moistened or which had been put
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  in. Graves as food for the departed,
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  but throughout Southwest Asia. Along the fertile river bottoms
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  and adjacent plains, the Andites were carrying out the improved
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  agricultural techniques inherited from their ancestors
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  who had made farming and gardening.
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  The chief pursuits. Within the boundaries of the
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  second Garden of Eden, for thousands of years the
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  descendants of of Adam had grown wheat and barley as improved in
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  the garden. And throughout the.
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  Highlands of the. Upper.
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  Borders of Mesopotamia, the descendants of Adam and Adam's
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  son, here met, traded and socially mingled.
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  It was these enforced changes in living conditions.
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  Which caused such. A large proportion of the human
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  race to become omnivorous and Dietetic practice and the
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  combination of wheat. Rice.
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  And vegetable diet. With the flesh of the herds.
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  Marked a great. Forward step in the health and
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  vigor. Of these ancient peoples in
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  paper two of the same section. The growth of culture is
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  predicated. Upon the development of the
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  tools of civilization and the tools which man utilized in his
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  ascent from. Savagery were effective just to
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  the. Extent that they.
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  Released. Manpower for the
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  accomplishments. Of higher tasks.
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  You, who now live among latter day scenes of budding culture
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  and beginning progress in social affairs.
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  Who actually have? Some little spare time in which
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  to think about society and civilization must not.
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  Overlook the fact that your. Early ancestors had little or no
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  leisure, which could be. Devoted to thoughtful.
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  Reflection and social thinking. The first four.
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  Great advances in human civilization were the taming of.
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  Fire the. Domestication of animals, the
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  enslavement of captives and private property.
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  While fire the first great discovery.
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  Eventually unlocked. The Doors.
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  Of the scientific. World it was of little.
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  Value in this regard to primitive man.
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  He refused to. Recognize natural causes as
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  explanations for commonplace phenomena.
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  When asked where fire came from, the simple story of andon and
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  the Flint was soon replaced by the legend of how some
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  Prometheus stole it from heaven. The ancients sought a
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  supernatural explanation for all natural phenomena not within the
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  range of their personal comprehension, and many moderns
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  continue to. Do this the.
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  Depersonalization of the so-called natural phenomena.
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  Has required ages. And it is not yet completed, but
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  the frank, honest and fearless. Search for true causes.
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  Gave birth to modern science. It turned astrology into
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  astronomy, alchemy into chemistry, and magic into
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  medicine. In the pre machine age, the only
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  way in which man could accomplish work without doing it
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  himself was to use an animal. Domestication of animals placed
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  in his hands. Living tools.
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  The intelligent. Use of which prepared the way
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  for both agriculture. And transportation.
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  And without these animals, man could not have risen from his
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  primitive. Estate to the levels.
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  Of subsequent civilization, most of the animals.
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  Best suited to. Domestications were found in
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  Asia, especially in the central to southwestern regions.
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  This was one reason why civilization progressed faster
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  in that locality that in other parts of the world.
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  Many of these animals had been twice before domesticated and in
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  the andite. Age they were.
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  Retained once again, but the dog had remained with the hunters
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  ever since, being adopted by the Blue Man long ago, the Andites
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  of Turkistan. Were the first peoples to.
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  Extensively domesticate the horse, and this is another.
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  Reason why their culture was for SO.
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  Long predominant. By 5. 1000 BC the Mesopotamian,
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  Turkistan and Chinese farmers had begun the raising of sheep.
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  Goats, cows, camels. Horses, fowls and elephants they
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  employed. As beasts, the burden.
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  The ox, camel, horse and yak man was himself at one time the
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  beast of burden. One ruler of the Blue Man or the
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  blue race once had 100,000 men in his colony of burden bearers.
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  The institution of slavery and private ownership of land came
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  with agriculture. Slavery raised the master's
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  standard of living and provided more leisure for.
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  Social Culture. The savage is a slave.
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  To nature, but scientific civilization is slowly
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  conferring increasing liberty on mankind.
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  Throughout animals, fire, wind, water, electricity, and other
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  undiscovered sources of energy, man has liberated and will
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  continue to liberate himself from the necessity of
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  unremitting toil, regardless of the transient trouble produced.
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  By the Prolific. Inventions of machinery.
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  The ultimate benefits to be. Derived from such.
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  Mechanical inventions are inestimable.
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  Civilization can never flourish, much less be established, until
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  man has leisure to think, to plan, to imagine new and better
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  ways of doing things. Man first simply appropriated
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  his shelter. Lived under.
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  Ledges or dwelt in caves. Next, he had adapted such
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  natural materials. As wood and.
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  Stone to create the family huts and lastly he entered the
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  creative stage of home building, learned to manufacture a brick
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  and other building materials the peoples.
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  Of the Turkestan. Highlands were the.
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  First of the. More modern races to build their
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  homes of wood houses not at all unlike the early.
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  Log cabins. Of the American pioneer
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  settlers. Throughout.
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  The plains human dwellings were made of brick.
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  Later. On burned bricks.
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  The older river races. Made their huts by setting tall
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  poles in the ground in a. Circle the tops.
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  Were then brought together making skeleton frames for the.
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  Hut which was. Interlaced with transverse
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  reeds. The whole creation.
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  Resembling a huge inverted basket.
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  The structure could then. Be daubed over with clay and
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  after drying in the sun would make a very.
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  Serviceable, weatherproof habitation.
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  It was from these early huts. That gave subsequent.
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  Ideas of all? Sorts of basket weaving.
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  And dependently originated among one group.
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  The idea of making pottery arose from observing the effects of
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  smearing these pull frameworks with moist clay.
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  The practice of hardening. Pottery by baking was discovered
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  when one of these clay. Covered primitive huts
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  accidentally burned the arts of. Olden days were many times
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  derived from the accidental occurrences attendant upon the
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  daily life of early. Peoples, at least this was
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  almost. Wholly true of the evolutionary
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  progress of mankind up to the coming of Adam, while.
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  Pottery had been. First introduced by the.
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  Staff of the. Prince about one half million
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  years previous the making of clay vessels.
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  Had practically ceased for over 1. 150,000 years only the Gulf
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  coasts. Of pre Sumerian.
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  Nodites continued to make clay vessels.
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  The art. Of pottery.
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  Making was revived during Adam's time.
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  The dissemination of this art was simultaneous with the
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  extension of the desert. Areas of Africa, Arabia and.
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  Central Asia and it's spread in successive.
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  Ways of. Improving technique from
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  Mesopotamia out over the Eastern Hemisphere.
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  These civilizations. Of the Andite age cannot always
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  be traced by the. Stages of their pottery or other
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  arts. The smooth course of human
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  evolution was tremendously complicated.
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  By the regimes. Of both Dalmatia and Eden.
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  It often. Occurs that the.
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  Later bosses and. Implements are inferior to the
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  earlier. Products of the pure and.
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  I peoples, and this sometimes I think even confuses our modern
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  anthropologists. They don't understand that
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  sometimes the more they dig, the more they find more intricate
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  objects. We see.
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  That in Goblecki Tepe and so that's a precursor of some of
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  the other areas that we're going to continue into as we.
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  Discover some of. The revelations, discourse on
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  early man, where we came from and how we got here.
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  So we'll. Continue on with this trek as we
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  continue with the Rancho Radio Podcast.
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  And please, I invite you to leave a comment and by all means
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  Fellow friends that you think might enjoy the Rancho Radio
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  podcast? Until then, see you next time.