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Old 28-April-2008, 03:39 PM
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Maybe they weren't that primitive.
I'll re-state a quote of mine from the CT section (because it's applicable, and I'm proud of it).

The err is in thinking that people of the past were less intelligent than us, rather than less knowledgeable. There's a big difference between the two.

To expand upon that; humans, as a civilization, make markable gains in knowledge in relatively short periods of time. For instance, the technology to broadcast information over air-waves and land-lines (TV, Radio, Internet, etc.) was not something we knew how to do 200 years ago. The railroad they had 200 years ago were better than the wagon trails 100 years before that. Etc. etc.

But intelligence, or the ability to learn and reason, is something that doesn't change from decade-to-decade or from century-to-century. Our ability to reason isn't all that much different than it was when we roamed to plains of Mesopotamia. Do not think that anchient peoples were stupid, they certainly were not.
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