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Thread #75641 Message #1331666
Posted By: Peace
18-Nov-04 - 07:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: The 'Open-minded' Find Atlantis
Subject: RE: BS: The 'Open-minded' Find Atlantis
It already has, Clinton.
Incas Aztecs Easter Islands
The Chinese and Koreans had printing long before Johannes Gutenburg did--or his student William Caxton. (Caxton studied under Gutenburg in 1475 or thereabouts.) But, look for a history of print, and one is given to believe it's European in origin. Such is not the case.
"Printing goes way back to China, where in the 8th Century they were printing from movable wooden blocks and both to Korea and China in the 11th Century where there is evidence of printing from movable wooden type.
However, printing, which has played the major role in the spread of literacy and understanding, is generally regarded as being a 15th century European invention." From the www.
Older civilizations HAVE existed. It's just a matter of recognizing them. Surgery occurred before it became a Europen 'discovery'. (Obsidian blades can be used for open-heart surgery; in fact, they have been in modern times.) What I was saying is this: We ain't the first to have a sense of discovery, and the pyramids still stand.