Quote from: Br.IanVonTurpie on Wed 24 Feb 2021Perhaps the aincient Celts , Indians, Egyptians and Easter Islanders were tuned into supernatural realms? Or had assistance from Aliens?
It is not just the climate that determined the level of scientific and technological progress of Eurasia because even the Spanish, Portuguese, Arabs, Indians and Chinese who lived in long stretches of desert in many parts of their empires also had industrial level technology that was far in advance of what the Jews, Africans, and Native Americans had, which was nothing, but also the lack or forced prohibition of superstitious practices.
This had 2 effects, the 1st is that the prohibition of superstitions like witchcraft, even in pagan times, prevented the spread of irrational ideas that may brainwash people into being illogical and cult like in their way of thinking.
The 2nd effect is that the witches who were executed could not pass their inferior genes onto the next generation of people which rendered the gene pool free of gene pollution that could lead to the breeding of unintelligent people.
The beliefs of the polytheistic pagans and the monotheistic religions of Europe and Asia were not as irrational as the superstitions of the Jews, Africans, and Native Americans.
The only irrational ideas in the Eurasian religions were the belief in an afterlife, divine punishment, heaven and hell, reincarnation, miracles, prophecies determined by oracles, prophets, and holy scriptures, and the concept of an apocalypse or end of the world.
While the Jews, Africans, and Native Americans have very bizarre superstitions, like cannibalism, human sacrifice, the practice of scalping by the Native Americans, and even today extremely superstitious practices like beheading bald men and trying to extract gold from their heads along with drying live babies to death in a magic ritual, that would supposedly grant wealth, are still practiced by Africans while Jewish Rabbis still suck the penises of circumcised newborn boys.
Like I said in this other thread:
https://creativityalliance.com/forum/general-jabber/the-agrarian-eurasians-and-the-primitive-jews-africans-and-native-americans/msg35993/#msg35993
The ancient Eurasians already had machines like the quern stone as early as 8000 BCE, which they used to grind grains and other materials, so it is very possible for them to have other sophisticated tools and machines which they used to make structures like the Stonehenge.
For example, aside from using roller logs, curved cradles, sleds, and rafts to transport the stones, they could have lifted the stones using levers to pry the stones off the ground and ropes connected to teams of draft animals to pull the stones into an upright position.
The stones on top of the posts could have been positioned into place by sliding them up ramps using the roller logs, curved cradles, or sleds which would be pulled by teams of draft animals.
Because of the absence of manufacturing tools, machines, and draft animals, the Native Americans and Easter Islanders had to build their structures entirely by hand which is not impossible but very time consuming, especially since they did not even possess metal tools.
They would have had to use hard stones like obsidian to carve the stones into specific shapes, which is harder than using dolerite or metal and will take longer.
The pyramids of the Mesoamericans had to use smaller stone blocks than the Egyptian ones because they did not possess roller logs, curved cradles, sleds, and draft animals to pull massive stones while the Easter Islanders would have had to carve stones that are already in an upright position because they did not possess the levers, ropes, and draft animals to raise up a lying stone.