r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson The Flyin' Hawaiian • 15h ago
What is this, fairytale land?
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u/Mindless-Cat1453 13h ago
Stone age mfs used to live sophisticated villages, used to work , used to make tools ect .
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u/Lost-Klaus 13h ago
Shhh, people want to think that this only happened because of the Romans, or sometimes Greek.
Plovdiv is the most ancient contineusly inhabited settlement in Europe though, it was a big salt making and trading city of what I know is at least the early/middle bronze age, maybe older but I am a little fuzzy on the exact years.
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u/Dominarion 13h ago
Man, what they call Old Europe is frikking old. The Vinca and Cucuteni-Trypillia cultures predates Mycenean civ by thousands of years and appeared at roughly the same the same time as Sumer. It looks like they invented copper smelting and they competition the Sumerians for the first settlement whp went over 10'000 pop.
Plovdiv was founded after these civilisations crumbled due to the Yamnayas migrations. Something like 4500 years ago.
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u/Lost-Klaus 12h ago
Oh I am not saying plovdid was "the first" just the "oldest continual inhabited".
But yeah People and societies go back easily over 10K years.
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u/Sega-Playstation-64 14h ago
One of my favorite conversations on Reddit was me arguing with a guy that primitive or medieval cultures were stupid because he could just disprove their beliefs using the scientific method.
He had no idea how fast he would be drawn and quartered or burned alive if he tried, let alone the language barriers
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u/MirrahPaladin 13h ago
Redditors when they go back in time with a science textbook thinking they can build a utopia but are just called crazy and are killed (this must be religion’s fault somehow)
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u/Sensitive_Educator60 14h ago
“Your stupid look at my science!”
“Your stupid look at my club in your head.”
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u/Good-Hand-8140 5h ago
If you brought them your trash bronze spear head and he'd probably give it to the kids to play or give it to the shaman to make some story of gods gift or something. Stone cut spear heads were increadably sharp, strong, and labour intensive. Bronze metalworking advantage was mass production and recycling.
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u/callmedale 3h ago
Native copper, which could be mined and worked without smithing, was used during the ice age and was abandoned in favor of returning to stone. Some of those tools were comparable to bronze and show up in the remains of societies that existed centuries after they were made
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u/ThatGuyYouMightNo 10h ago
They're gonna look at you like that no matter what you mention because language hasn't been invented yet.
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u/irradihate 9h ago
There's been language as long as there's been people.
You all really think someone invented language?
Stadial history is a helluva drug.
Mandatory cultural anthropology in schools.
This level of stupidity is unbearable.
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u/betawolferz 14h ago
Did not expect to see a ZZ meme in this sub today