Re: New Years Eve

On 1/1/2025 4:47 AM, Catrike Rider wrote:

On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:06:06 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 12/31/2024 3:44 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:

  I was out today exploring some of the standing Stones around Avebury ...
>
Rather windy but was relatively sheltered or tail wind until last drag
along the Ridgeway old multi thousand year old road, way before the Romans
etc!

About the antiquities: One of my friends and teaching colleagues was
English, an engineer who had come over here to take a job at Lockheed
before going into teaching.
>
He used to crack that "In England, all of American History is covered
under Current Events."

 Did his evaluation of American History include the Brit's begging the
USA for assistance in two world wars?
 Don't get me wrong. I'm happy my ancestors were able to help.
 By the way, archeologists have discovered American inhabitants from
14,000 years ago, with some estimates as far back as 40,000 years ago.
Why the European cultures became more productive is anyone's guess,
but I don't believe it anything to do with race. Perhaps (my opinion)
it was just that the vast amount of available land did not precipitate
as much tribal warring. Wars seem to have been the mother of
invention.
 Yes, there was tribal warring in prehistoric America, but not on the
scale of what happened in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa,
with massive armies invading and conquering, huge territories and
enslaving the inhabitants.

The American indians were no slouches in the slavery business.  The Mayan city states were every bit as organized for repetitive small wars as was Europe at the time.
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