Modern humans appeared 200,000; civilization 10,000; and advanced technology 500 years ago. Why no advancement for something like 190,000 years?

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Modern humans appeared 200,000; civilization 10,000; and advanced technology 500 years ago. Why no advancement for something like 190,000 years?

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First of all, they were primitive. Not only their technology but also their diet was bad. Average human life was too low. We still don’t know much about 200.000 part but you wouldn’t like to be there.

10.000 years, these people started to settle. Normally, if you settle, nomads will raid and take away whatever they can and burn the rest. But some lucky people settled on very fertile farmlands near rivers, like Mesopotamia, Nile, india, china etc. The raiders didn’t need to destroy it. They settled when they captured. And they started farming, farms give more food. Food feeds more people, more people bring society, technology, economy. They need laws and police force and also army so that they don’t get raided. Those who were out of these areas either tried to capture land or kept raiding.

For example, Turks and Mongols kept raiding China because farming was not available in their homeland. They did not choose to be a nomad, the land decided that. And a city folk is no match against a steppe warrior who is master of bow and horse. They need to hunt to feed their family, while cabbage in your farm can’t run away from field like a deer.

What happened in the last 500 years? There was education opportunities but it was limited to certain people in certain cities. And they were not very good at transferring their knowledge to next generation. For example ancient Greeks had astronomical discoveries but they couldn’t keep their schools. Arabs and Persians translated them much later.

After fall of Constantinople, their intellectuals moved to Europe. But Europe was under church’s dominance. The writing system was mainly Latin, people didn’t have much choice but believe in what clerics were saying. Constantinople was key point on trade routes. When it was falling, Europeans looked for other ways to get to major location of trade, India. But they found out that the earth is not flat like Pope said. This started religion debates.

Some cool dudes in central Europe, declared that Pope is fooling people. They have no idea about what they talk about and religion should be in native language, not in Latin so that everyone could get education and learn it. People killed each other but good guys got religious freedom.

Remember the people who settled and who didn’t? The settled got fast technology with trade routes and wars, it is interaction after all. They made guns and cannons, big ships to trade more goods. Natives in America were not ready for that and european colonists killed or assimilated %95 of 2 damn continents of people.

Do you think it’s enough? Ofcourse not! There were African people with their archaic technology. When Europeans came, they didn’t settle this time. They just came for natural resources. And they enslaved millions of people to work for them. Slavery was so profitable that they moved hundreds thousands of black people from Africa to America to make them work in their plantations till death. Just check king Leopold of Belgium did in Congo.

Getting easy resources and trade made people of Europe to focus on technology to produce stuff even faster. Industrial revolution, steam engines, electricity etc

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