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RE: Plague and Power: Hell on Earth

in #life4 years ago

"Throughout the 2,750 years of its existence, the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture was fairly stable and static; however, there were changes that took place. This article addresses some of these changes that have to do with the economic aspects. These include the basic economic conditions of the culture, the development of trade, interaction with other cultures and the apparent use of barter tokens, an early form of money."

It is interesting that you quoted the prehistoric period of Europe.
After all, the new continent belongs to European civilization.

Best get on the right side of history, and set people free. Either become the master of your fate, or suffer the fate your masters impose.

Are you a right-wing thinker who opposes left-wing thinking?

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The Trypillian culture has primarily been found in Europe, but finds of bronze coins in the shape of knives that were used in what is now China at the time suggests that either they engaged in extensive trade with far Eastern cultures, or were present deep in East Asia. One of the discoveries was a coin with text on it pointing out it was minted in Ji Yo, a city in what has become China today.

Another label for the Cucuteni-Trypillians is Scythian, and that cultural context is primarily Asian, based on the steppes, with but a presence on the verge of Europe. We don't have much archeological evidence from Central Asia (during the Neolithic, before great cities like Samarkand and Tashkent arose, or more to the North of them at all). Not much is known about Scythian culture, and it is only vaguely understood what differences between Cucuteni, Trypillian, and Scythian existed.

It is important to realize that in the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and even into the Bronze Age, countries as 'the state' didn't span every inch of the globe. This was a culture, not a nation state. As a culture, it varied, and it becomes difficult to demarcate where it ends and another begins, and why. China, Korea, Ukraine, Romania, and Hungary didn't exist, and only recently have they emerged as states on the time scale of prehistory.

Also, generally Europe was always the weak fringe of culture, the last place people and technology arrived, and not the oligarchic culture it recently became. The Middle East and South Asia tended to have more people - and thus, power, from their greater populations that enabled larger armies - than Europe. The domestication of the horse ~7kya enabled the Yamnaya to basically replace the men of Europe (only a couple thousand years after farmers from the Middle East did the same thing), and Bronze took thousands of years to penetrate to the North and West of Europe. By that time Egypt or Assyria could have conquered the whole of it with a relatively small force ahorse and wielding bronze weapons and armor. They couldn't have ruled it, because it was so remote, so they didn't bother.

I do oppose left-wing thinking, but I also oppose right-wing thinking. I personally refer to the left and right as cheeks, not wings, because I think two-party divisions more represent an ass than a bird. States always form such bipartite divisions to enable a nobility to covertly rule, which inevitably destroys the cultural strength the state was adopted to further. Cultures have wings with which to soar, which states shit all over until the people are diminished, and can soar no more.

I do not support institutions, and consider them inherently slavery. I do strongly support peoples acting as sovereign members of their communities to work together for the good of their people, communities, and families.

Do you consider me the Right or Left? I do not consider me on that spectrum at all.

The Trypillian culture has primarily been found in Europe, but finds of bronze coins in the shape of knives that were used in what is now China at the time suggests that either they engaged in extensive trade with far Eastern cultures, or were present deep in East Asia. One of the discoveries was a coin with text on it pointing out it was minted in Ji Yo, a city in what has become China today.

I don't know about The Trypillian culture. However, I think there was an pre - ancient civilization.

You are right. There were many.