BACKGROUND:
HUMAN HISTORY 
Background
>Universal Progression | Human
History | The Cultural Process
| Two Simplifications | Six
Fundamental Powers | Limits | Conclusion
This
is the second of seven parts to the proof that Calousia exists.
Calousia makes more sense with an overall view of human history in mind.
Therefore, we present a brief review, a history in a few snap-shots, so
to speak.
What is man? What is the human condition? What is the appropriate role of humanity? Our answers to these questions largely derive from a time when the perceived universe was small and comfortable, for example, consisting of the lands surrounding the Mediterranean sea and the half sphere of stars above it. More »
For our example, we travel to Alice Springs in central Australia. You can imagine yourself an aborigine, living as these natives did from ancient times up to the mid 1700s when Europeans arrive. Your technology is primitive. As a man, your most important possession is your stone axe and the spear you use to hunt kangaroo and emu, a flightless bird. The women and children gather edible plants and small animals. The woman’s most important tool is her digging stick, with which she must some times dig deep after tubers. More »
About ten to eleven thousand years ago, a few humans began living a new way. Instead of searching about for naturally grown food, they - particularly the women - began raising plants (and animals). They saved seeds and then planted them, weeded, and harvested. Eventually this practice succeeded so well that the new farmers could stay by their plantings. They began to give up wandering for the settled life. To follow this advancement, we go to the Brazilian rain forest, a very different environment from the dry Australian outback, and see how you would live as a Kamayura’ indian, an early farmer. More »
We now move to the region of Tigris-Euphrates rivers of present-day Iraq and you live as a Sumerian. Your people were the first urban dwellers. You have obviously improved your control over certain valuable plants, growing "barley, chickpeas, lentils, millet, (m: emmer) wheat, turnips, dates, onions, garlic, lettuce, leeks, (m: flax) and mustard." You also raise "cattle, sheep, goats,... pigs, oxen, as beasts of burden, and donkeys, (your) primary transport animal." More »
For our example of the Industrial Revolution, we travel from the Tigris-Euphrates region up to London, England, arriving in the year 1851. This is fortuitous, because the whole town buzzes about the Great Exposition. It symbolizes the evident acceleration of progress and progress is its theme, and it displays "the Work of All Industry of All Nations." More »
Chroniclers have not yet decided upon our present time’s name. Some call it the Age of Communication, some the Post-Industrial Age and others the Technological Age. Whether one of these names eventually prevails, or another does, the future must decide. Since you know this period well, this review can be brief. More »
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