911:History of the World

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[edit] Intro

The research into the full history of our world is an almost impossible and complex task, but by doing so will force us to look into all the aspects upon which our present society is being formed. Consider this historic research together with Science of fascism as an important context for the History of oppression study.

[edit] How could we know?

[edit] Astronomy

Astronomy is the science of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as auroras and cosmic background radiation).

The earth is part of an unimaginable large and strange Universe ("its probably stranger than we can imagine" - Terrence McKenna), and is under heavy electro-magnetic influence of the Sun, its own body and other elements such as the Moon, besides the occasional impacts by large or small Asteroids. No one can truly know what the Universe really is, but we can try to extrapolate our current 'measurements' and sensations into space and time to get some vague idea of what it might be (and what it might have been).

[edit] Geology

Geology is the science and study of the solid matter of the earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history and the processes that shape it. Its is one of the so called Earth sciences, the others are:

[edit] Biology

[edit] Anthropology

Anthropology is study of humanity: all human beings at all times and with all dimensions of humanity.

The pre-text for human survival is completely defined by Astronomy and Geology. Therefore any human culture will make strong references to the elements within these fields (food, rain, sunlight, natural disasters), but Social sciences are also crucial in the evolution of humanity:

  • Archeology is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes.
  • Conscious/critical/creative psychological behaviour
  • Generational dynamics
  • to research: Do the social aspects of humanity become more critical with the growth of populations? What is the evolutionary, social and spiritual effect of explosive Human population growth and the increase in density of living regions (or the perception thereof)?

[edit] Traditions & Spirituality

[edit] Science of Knowledge

  • What is our consciousness, our memory and our moral intuition?
    • How does it affect our perception and judgement?
  • What do we want to know?
    • Why do we want to know?
    • What can we really know?
    • What should we really know?
    • What should we do with our science and spirituality?
    • And the inverse of all of the above.
  • What culture and knowledge should we preserve?
    • How should we preserve that?
  • How to deal with historic and cultural falsifications?
  • What could be a useful purpose of being? What would not?

[edit] What do we think we know?

[edit] Dating the age of earth elements

  • Dating methods
    • Astronomical influence dating (?)
    • Carbon dating
    • Geological layering
    • Plant/seed dating
    • Genetic research
    • Social culture aspect dating (plant/clay/wood/stone/metal/... craftsmanship)
    • Oral and written history
  • Reliability of these methods?

[edit] Human civilization research

  • Recent single-origin hypothesis (the so called "Out of Africa" theory)
    • "According to the RSOH, anatomically modern humans evolved in Africa before 200,000 to 100,000 years ago, with members of one branch leaving Africa about 80,000 years ago. These emigrants spread to the rest of the world, replacing (and not interbreeding with) other Homo species already there, such as Neanderthals and Java man."
    • "Genetic evidence suggests Homo sapiens left Africa in prehistoric times only once."
  • Hybrid-origin
    • "argues that all of the genetic variation between the contemporary human races is attributable to genetic inheritance from at least two widely divergent hominid species, or subspecies, that were geographically dispersed throughout Africa, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent, prior to the evolution of modern Homo sapiens sapiens (according to hybrid-origin theory, approximately 35,000 years ago)."
  • "Modern man settled 400,000 years before previously thought"
  • "Ancient human unearthed in China: Radiocarbon dates, obtained directly from the bones, show the person lived between 42,000 and 39,000 years ago"

[edit] Nature

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