When Will We Learn?

Robert Barr

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History has provided our current civilizations with errors and corrections, and, generally, we choose not to learn; thereby we repeatedly make the same errors.
“When will We Learn?” poignantly points out the advantages that modern civilizations could have had if mistakes and corrections from ancient civilizations were heeded. Our current humanitarian progress should be far ahead of standing starvations, impoverishments, wars, territorial greed, and tyrannical control of humans in subservient environments.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Humanity
• Error (disambiguation)
• Learning
• History
• Progress
• Civilization

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• Publié par: LifeRich Publishing
• Date de parution: 16 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781489743404
• Langue: English

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When Will We Learn?
by: Robert Barr


Copyright © 2022 by: Robert Barr.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-4897-4338-1 (sc)
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LifeRich Publishing rev. date: 08/10/2022
CONTENTS
Prologue
 
Chapter 1:Pre-Modern Human History
Chapter 2:Egyptian Civilization
Chapter 3:Egyptian Downfall
Chapter 4:Plagues and Biological Warfare
Chapter 5:Revolutionary War
Chapter 6:US Civil War
Chapter 7:Vikings
Chapter 8:Ancient Greece
Chapter 9:US Abandoned Military Facilities
Chapter 10:Space Dangers
Chapter 11:Dealing with the Environment
Chapter 12:Moral Decay
Chapter 13:Freedoms
Chapter 14:Dumbing Down
Chapter 15:World Energy Reserves
Chapter 16:Mining Waste
Chapter 17:Garbage
Chapter 18:Nuclear Waste
Chapter 19:Nuclear Powered Commercial Ships
Chapter 20:Rule of Law
Chapter 21:Government Waste
Chapter 22:Where are We? A Perspective
Chapter 23:Realization
Chapter 24:Consequences of Permafrost Melting
Chapter 25:World’s Population Capacity
Chapter 26:Space Exploration
Chapter 27:Sea Level Rise
Chapter 28:Intellectual Property Thievery
Chapter 29:Cyber Attacks
Chapter 30:China’s Limitations
Chapter 31:Galactic Perceptions
Chapter 32:Pleistocene and Holocene Extinctions
Chapter 33:Learning from Extinction
Chapter 34:Long Dead Bacteria and Viruses
Chapter 35:Northwest Passage and Northern Sea Route
Chapter 36:Capitalism
Chapter 37:The Truth from History
Chapter 38:Slipping Sovereignty
Chapter 39:Divisiveness
Chapter 40:Borders for Unity
Chapter 41:Learning

This book is dedicated to Frank Bettinger, a good friend and philosopher who has departed this Earth. Throughout his life, Frank was a proponent of history and to the learning from it.
PROLOGUE
If we look back to the Neanderthal extinction of 40,000 years ago and the beginnings of Cro-Magnons at 300,000 years ago, the eventual evolution of humans possessed an instinct for survival coupled to necessary innovation. Through the millennia, however, survival was important but subservient to innovation and conquest. As millennia passed and Cro-Magnons proceeded to current Homo sapiens, language and complex tools became evident. Modern thinking has produced both civil advantages and tremendously selfish detriments to control civilization and humanity.
Can innovation be contrived to produce subservience of a select group of individuals to others? With innovation, control, obedience, loyalty, and forced subservience, rulership can be enjoyed by some hominoids over others. History of any length lends credence to this idea.
Ancient times, civilizations’ histories, and archaeology provide ample evidence that over zealousness and control hungry country or Providence leaders wanted psychological and tangible means to control people in their country or others, possibly, the world. For thousands of years, these human thoughts have been present to produce grandiose aggressive acts driven by traits of avarice. Not all humans have or exercise these traits, but the traits or characteristics are sufficient enough in DNA or otherwise to cause leadership conflicts, war, international envy, or hatred, since the beginning of any form of human civilization.
Chapter 1
PRE-MODERN HUMAN HISTORY

P RIOR TO MODERN DAY ACTIVITIES much history has taken place. Prehistoric and ancient world history are at the limits, grasp, or scope of science and historical tools. Our understanding is proportional to recency. Hopefully, time, technology, and science will provide better tools for learning, enlightenment, and realization of a long past Earth and humanoid changing events. Knowledge of any part of history may guide us in the future.
It is a certainty that humanity possesses a long and very interesting history. Before carved, chiseled, or scribed historical records, humanoids were in the process of gaining inventiveness for surviving, and, thereby, evolving. In the thoughts of improvement, innovation, adaption, or survival, ideas of control or conquering another Neanderthal’s, Cro-Magnon’s, or Homo sapiens territory, goods, or mate were surfacing.
Homo Neanderthals probably appeared about 500,000 to 400,000 years ago and became true Neanderthals around 300,000 years ago. Fossil records show Neanderthals lived in Eurasia from 200,000 years ago until their extinction. Extinction dates very: from 42,500 years ago to 29,000 years ago. However, 40,000 years ago is the most prevalent date, but a recent date of 24,000 years ago has been theorized. Further, a theory has been postulated: Neanderthals interbred with Cro-Magnons or Homo sapiens and did not become wholly extinct. A supposition says as much as 2.0 percent of Neanderthal DNA exists in nonblack humanoids. Another estimate is much higher in percentage. If any DNA exists, it has likely hybridized over time. A theoretical co-location, probably in Eurasia, lasting nearly 3,000 years would be catalytic to hybridization.
It is impossible to determine if Neanderthals had premonitions or forethought, but the idea of interbreeding gives an idea of clan or tribal longevity with mass power and, possibly, planning. Would interbreeding with Cro-Magnons allow Neanderthals more territory or vice versa? The theory seems reasonable, but we have no clear answer or evidence.
Dates vary for the first Cro-Magnons. A proposal of 160,000 years ago has been made, but around 120,000 years ago in Africa, Cro-Magnons were spreading to Western Asia. Some evidence fits their occupancy of Western Asia at around 100,000 years ago. Exact dating is most elusive, since we are dealing with millennia. Extinction for Cro-Magnons is not an applicable term, since Cro-Magnons became Homo sapiens –us.
There are portions of modern societies that believe modern humans have always been as present – no evolving or change of form- ever. Paleoanthropology and other sciences with fossil records indicate Homo sapiens via Cro-Magnons have, indeed, changed and adapted over thousands of years. World weather changes, floods, glaciations, earthquakes, asteroids, volcanoes, tar pits, etc. have forced hominoids to adapt or change locations. In the times of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, Smilodon, the saber tooth tiger, coexisted in the Americas during the Pleistocene Epoch, 2.58 million to 11.700, years ago. The largest of the specie probably weighed from 500 to 1000 pounds and was just short of fifty inches at the shoulder. While Smilodon disappeared from existence about 10,000 years ago, the animal must have forced some ingenious avoidance or hunting techniques for Cro-Magnons. Like it or not, innovation for survival was an absolute necessity in the Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs.
Homo sapiens, Cro-Magnons, or both hominoid species migrated from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Levant in a period of 130,000 to 100,000 years ago. In the seventh millennium BC, trade was predominant between what is now Yemen and East Africa, which resulted in Egyptians possessing Yemenis mitochondrial DNA. Possibly, some Homo sapiens migrated from the Levant, but migrating Yemenis may have floated the Red Sea or followed along the African east coast to become Egyptians in a few millennia. The Egyptian – Yemenis DNA ratio is fine, but the route to Egypt is conjecture. The Sinai Peninsula is occasionally considered the southern portion of the Levant but it is normally professed as a bridge to Egypt, especially the northern portion.
With the prehistoric migrations from the Sub – Saharan portion of Africa and with a majority of Homo sapiens or Cro-Magnons proceeding to the Levant, ideas of peace and tranquility might be expected. However, as time and rulers’ minds contemplated expansion, avarice brought control wars, which became inevitable as history proceeded to currency.
The battle of Kadesh, now modern Syria, was representative of Egyptian ruler aggression – more control of land and people. In 1,274 BC, Rameses II moved north with the idea of conquering Kadesh and its people. The Hittites from the Levant area of modern Turkey had similar ideas. Chariots were utilized, but a stalemate followed, whereby, a peace treaty was drawn that has lasted to modern times. Certainly, this was not the first battle, but it was recorded and produced a peace treaty. It seems catalytic to centuries of battles and wars to follow. The following centuries demonstrated we are slow to learn that battles or wars are unfavorable to humankind. The possibilities of control, riche