There were not eough people and plenty of seperation between them to minimize war. Then the conquests started and have
It is odd that you seem to ignore the biblical tale of being crucified for exercising free speech.
You may want to read this: http://www.womanastronomer.com/hypatia.htm
I find it revealing that real wars started with the advent of religion and (forced) conversion.
Golden Ages were always built on the backs of slaves. Today the US is experiencing a Golden Age, but I see no general happiness in the population.
Are we just spoiled or do we have really poor, unhappy people living in the richest country in the world?
Hypatia is proof that people were just as smart back then as we are today. So?Add that to the life style of the pagans, and you would have a happier people.
At the time of Hypatia, yes they had slaves as we understand slaves. Slaves like we understand seems too developed with the metal age. People were needed for mining of the ore. Before that the word slave had a far different meaning. There are a lot of words that way. God is another word that changed over time.
And there you have it. Mathematics haven't changed, in fact they have been refined. There is no war between Mathematics. There are (and always have been) wars between Gods, since the dawn of Mankind.
My thinking is a little different. The term “GOD" must have started out as the name of a very smart group of people or tribe. Then evolved into the meaning of the word “Knowledge". The people got more organized and as the earth was opening up land from the northern ice melts the populations grew and expanded. They already had heaven and afterlife and rebirth, but no gods. And we still have some of those religions around today. The Age of Deities (GODS) had to have gotten started after some major natural disaster or plague. The people relocated with very few of the scholars to pass on the knowledge. And the meaning got mixed up and confused. Reason for few scholars was it was before history and the memory and rhyme methods of pre-history is said to have taken 27 years of learning just to get the basics down.
The first gods were for different powers. So they would not have fought. They were stars and some animals with limited powers. Then over time the gods grew to more powerful animals and were able to be closer to the leaders than the normal people. The first big god that gave power to the leaders was the fire god. Still here today. Then the gods became part animal and part man. A finally or course the gods became man. After a protein advancement that help create large populations, we got kings and gods of a number too great to count. And yes, a lot of warring. We were still in the Age of Deities and going strong today.
As far as the early wars. The history and art work does not show a lot of wars in early times. Wars seemed to have started in the Middle East and Europe with the introduction of the Asian olive. The change from flax seed oil to olive oil changed the whole way of life. Moses only reason for going to Israel was the olive oil. He had to wait 40 years, because Egypt and the Hittites were at war over the olive oil. Alexandria the Great’s empire was nothing more than the olive oil production. Once he controlled the oil, he took over Egypt and then headed east.
Thus wars, death, destruction, misery, hardship. So where is the blissful existence? Wars, mostly territorial have existed in Nature for billions of years. It is part of the evolution of species and competition for resources.
As a wise woman nce told me; true passive inward posture can only be achieved by hermits. But by definition hermits are useless to human knowledge.
Well answer this, how fast were their race cars back then? If we just assume that they were people of wars, misery and hardships. Why not assume they had bitchin race cars. What does history tell us? Pick a 400 year period, about as long as the USA has been around. And you would be lucky to find one war in that time period. Now as you move the timeline closer to the 2,000 B.C. you will start having wars. As the Age of Deities becomes more prevalent we start seeing more wars, and the death, destruction and hardships you are referring to. I found one maybe hardship at Babylon about 5,000 B.C. that I have not gotten a handle on yet. When you rent a house, your rental agreement excluded the wood in the doors and windows. Now we know that Rome had an ecological disaster when they cut down all the forests all the way to the Alps. Were they having the same problem in Babylon years earlier? You know the oldest cruciform writings that man has found so far are bar tabs for beer. The data coming out of the ground shows a much happier lifestyle that most of us think could have happened in the past, until the powerful gods showed up.