Early Civilization Part 1

0:01 All right, we're going to have some fun, a little bit of fun, and go back in time and look at early human history in the previous. Podcast I said to you that. The Urantia book is not only a. Revolution. Revelation. Of new truth. It is. Also a revelation of humanity because 99% of human history is unknown to us. We have no idea. I mean we. Could sort of piece it. Together a little here and there, but there are more questions than there are answered answers by most anthropologists, so I. Thought I would share with you that section of the book. The Urantia Book, Part 3 primarily.

0:41 So we'll kind of start with Paper 81, which is entitled Development of Modern Civilization and we'll skim through some of this and. We will reveal to you. Some of that missing history as we continue with the Rancho. Radio Podcast. We're going to take a trip back in time. All right, so the. Beginning of paper 81 reads that. Regardless of the. Ups and downs of the miscarriage of the plan for world betterment projected in the missions.

1:22 Of both calagasia. And Adam, the basic organic evolution of the human. Races or species? Continued. To carry the races forward in the. Scale of human progress and racial development. It reads that evolution can be delayed, but it cannot be stopped. So, notwithstanding, paraphrasing the miscarriage, the default of our planetary Prince Caligaspia, and then later. The default of. Adam and Eve. Which is partially recorded. In the book of. Genesis, they say that the scale. Of human progress did continue. Despite these setbacks, because as they say.

2:04 Evolution can be delayed, but it cannot be stopped the influence of the violent race, they say, though a number is smaller than had been planned, produced in advance in civilization, which since the days of Adam. Far exceeded the progress. Of mankind throughout its entire previous existence of almost 1,000,000. Years for about. 35,000 years after the days of. Adam The. Cradle of civilization was in southwestern Asia, extending from the Nile Valley eastward and slightly to the north, across northern Arabia, through Mesopotamia and into Turkistan and climate. Was the decisive.

2:48 Factor in the establishment of civilization in that area. It was. A great climatic and geologic change that took place in northern Africa and western Asia that terminated the early migrations of the Adamites, barred them from Europe by the expanded Mediterranean and diverting the stream of migration north and east into Turkistan. So they're saying that the Great Migration of the Adamites, which was based in what is known as Babylon, essentially it was. It was too. Difficult to migrate into Western Asia and Northern Africa. But it was favorable for this.

3:35 Small pocket, maybe a few 1000 Adamites and they traveled northward and eastward towards the Caspian region and into central. Asia, which is. Why we have many of the early religions, the Akkadians, the Urartians and others, and then of. Course the architectural. Finds they they find in these. Areas are the. Remnants of these early, expanding and quite progressive Ant Adamites. Even Lake Van is named after one of the earlier Nodites, Van. It reads by. The time of the completion of these land elevations and associated climatic changes around 15,000 BC, civilization had settled down to a worldwide stalemate except. For the cultural.

4:25 Ferments and biological. Reserves. Of the Andites. That's still. Confined by mountains to the east and Asia, and by the expanding forests. In Europe to the West. So this amalgamated race now of the earlier Nodites and the Adamites became the Andites and they were the predominant cultural influence about 15,000 years ago. But they were. Stuck in this area, they couldn't expand. Outward too effectively. Because of the climate. And it reads that climate or climatic evolution is now about to accomplish what all? Other efforts failed to do that is.

5:06 To compel EUR Asian man to abandon hunting for the more advanced callings of herding and farming. So, Hunter Herder. You heard that? Expression say I mean because of the climate in that. Area the. Cradle of civilization, it was the climate that. Forced us through. The environment to move away from hunting and more into herding and farming, and that it ends with a common evolution may be slow. But it is terribly effective it. Writes that since slaves were so generally employed. By the earlier. Agriculturist The farmer was formerly looked down on by both the hunter and the.

5:51 Herder for ages. It was considered menial to till the. Soil, Wherefore the idea that soil toil is a curse, whereas it is the greatest. Of all blessings, even in the days of Cain and Abel, the. Sacrifices of the pastoral life were held. In greater esteem than the offerings of. Of the agriculture. And hence that's why Cain and Abel had a huge fight. Man ordinarily evolved into a farmer from a hunter by transition through the era. Of the herder. And this was also true among the Andites. Now remember the Andites are the amalgamated race of the Nodites, which is more of the human element. That was uplifted by the Calogastia. 100 and the Adamites.

6:44 So 2 advanced races that amalgamated into becoming the Adamites. We all have Andite, we all have Andite blood in us. A contribution of 1's, one kind of human stock and the other, and I'm just throwing these in so that for those people who are not as familiar with the text can understand what they're talking about. But more often, it reads, the evolutionary coercion of climatic necessity would. Cause whole tribes to pass. Directly from hunters. To successful farmers, but this. Phenomena of passing immediately from hunting to. Agriculture only occurred. In those regions.

7:24 Where there was a high degree of race. Mixture. With the Violet stock, so there's they're. Implying here that it. Was the higher. Races the smarter of the ancestors. That took to. Farming easier than the more baser human stock the aboriginal humans, the evolutionary peoples, notably the Chinese, early learned to plant seeds and to. Cultivate crops. Through observation of the sprouting of seeds accidentally moistened or which had been put in. Graves as food for the departed, but throughout Southwest Asia. Along the fertile river bottoms and adjacent plains, the Andites were carrying out the improved agricultural techniques inherited from their ancestors who had made farming and gardening.

8:18 The chief pursuits. Within the boundaries of the second Garden of Eden, for thousands of years the descendants of of Adam had grown wheat and barley as improved in the garden. And throughout the. Highlands of the. Upper. Borders of Mesopotamia, the descendants of Adam and Adam's son, here met, traded and socially mingled. It was these enforced changes in living conditions. Which caused such. A large proportion of the human race to become omnivorous and Dietetic practice and the combination of wheat. Rice. And vegetable diet. With the flesh of the herds.

8:59 Marked a great. Forward step in the health and vigor. Of these ancient peoples in paper two of the same section. The growth of culture is predicated. Upon the development of the tools of civilization and the tools which man utilized in his ascent from. Savagery were effective just to the. Extent that they. Released. Manpower for the accomplishments. Of higher tasks. You, who now live among latter day scenes of budding culture and beginning progress in social affairs. Who actually have? Some little spare time in which to think about society and civilization must not.

9:40 Overlook the fact that your. Early ancestors had little or no leisure, which could be. Devoted to thoughtful. Reflection and social thinking. The first four. Great advances in human civilization were the taming of. Fire the. Domestication of animals, the enslavement of captives and private property. While fire the first great discovery. Eventually unlocked. The Doors. Of the scientific. World it was of little. Value in this regard to primitive man. He refused to. Recognize natural causes as explanations for commonplace phenomena.

10:22 When asked where fire came from, the simple story of andon and the Flint was soon replaced by the legend of how some Prometheus stole it from heaven. The ancients sought a supernatural explanation for all natural phenomena not within the range of their personal comprehension, and many moderns continue to. Do this the. Depersonalization of the so-called natural phenomena. Has required ages. And it is not yet completed, but the frank, honest and fearless. Search for true causes. Gave birth to modern science. It turned astrology into astronomy, alchemy into chemistry, and magic into medicine. In the pre machine age, the only way in which man could accomplish work without doing it himself was to use an animal. Domestication of animals placed in his hands. Living tools.

11:23 The intelligent. Use of which prepared the way for both agriculture. And transportation. And without these animals, man could not have risen from his primitive. Estate to the levels. Of subsequent civilization, most of the animals. Best suited to. Domestications were found in Asia, especially in the central to southwestern regions. This was one reason why civilization progressed faster in that locality that in other parts of the world. Many of these animals had been twice before domesticated and in the andite. Age they were. Retained once again, but the dog had remained with the hunters ever since, being adopted by the Blue Man long ago, the Andites of Turkistan. Were the first peoples to.

12:16 Extensively domesticate the horse, and this is another. Reason why their culture was for SO. Long predominant. By 5. 1000 BC the Mesopotamian, Turkistan and Chinese farmers had begun the raising of sheep. Goats, cows, camels. Horses, fowls and elephants they employed. As beasts, the burden. The ox, camel, horse and yak man was himself at one time the beast of burden. One ruler of the Blue Man or the blue race once had 100,000 men in his colony of burden bearers. The institution of slavery and private ownership of land came with agriculture. Slavery raised the master's standard of living and provided more leisure for.

13:05 Social Culture. The savage is a slave. To nature, but scientific civilization is slowly conferring increasing liberty on mankind. Throughout animals, fire, wind, water, electricity, and other undiscovered sources of energy, man has liberated and will continue to liberate himself from the necessity of unremitting toil, regardless of the transient trouble produced. By the Prolific. Inventions of machinery. The ultimate benefits to be. Derived from such. Mechanical inventions are inestimable. Civilization can never flourish, much less be established, until man has leisure to think, to plan, to imagine new and better ways of doing things. Man first simply appropriated his shelter. Lived under.

13:58 Ledges or dwelt in caves. Next, he had adapted such natural materials. As wood and. Stone to create the family huts and lastly he entered the creative stage of home building, learned to manufacture a brick and other building materials the peoples. Of the Turkestan. Highlands were the. First of the. More modern races to build their homes of wood houses not at all unlike the early. Log cabins. Of the American pioneer settlers. Throughout. The plains human dwellings were made of brick. Later. On burned bricks. The older river races. Made their huts by setting tall poles in the ground in a. Circle the tops.

14:41 Were then brought together making skeleton frames for the. Hut which was. Interlaced with transverse reeds. The whole creation. Resembling a huge inverted basket. The structure could then. Be daubed over with clay and after drying in the sun would make a very. Serviceable, weatherproof habitation. It was from these early huts. That gave subsequent. Ideas of all? Sorts of basket weaving. And dependently originated among one group. The idea of making pottery arose from observing the effects of smearing these pull frameworks with moist clay. The practice of hardening. Pottery by baking was discovered when one of these clay. Covered primitive huts accidentally burned the arts of. Olden days were many times derived from the accidental occurrences attendant upon the daily life of early. Peoples, at least this was almost. Wholly true of the evolutionary progress of mankind up to the coming of Adam, while.

15:45 Pottery had been. First introduced by the. Staff of the. Prince about one half million years previous the making of clay vessels. Had practically ceased for over 1. 150,000 years only the Gulf coasts. Of pre Sumerian. Nodites continued to make clay vessels. The art. Of pottery. Making was revived during Adam's time. The dissemination of this art was simultaneous with the extension of the desert. Areas of Africa, Arabia and. Central Asia and it's spread in successive. Ways of. Improving technique from Mesopotamia out over the Eastern Hemisphere. These civilizations. Of the Andite age cannot always be traced by the. Stages of their pottery or other arts. The smooth course of human evolution was tremendously complicated.

16:36 By the regimes. Of both Dalmatia and Eden. It often. Occurs that the. Later bosses and. Implements are inferior to the earlier. Products of the pure and. I peoples, and this sometimes I think even confuses our modern anthropologists. They don't understand that sometimes the more they dig, the more they find more intricate objects. We see. That in Goblecki Tepe and so that's a precursor of some of the other areas that we're going to continue into as we. Discover some of. The revelations, discourse on early man, where we came from and how we got here. So we'll. Continue on with this trek as we continue with the Rancho Radio Podcast.

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