The ancients were far more advanced than modern people at almost every level on a personal level of ability to do things. Both mentally as well as physically. Your average man from the year 1000 could endure a lot more than the perfumed princes of today.
An actual knight in armour in the crusades would make a modern soldier look like a pansy in a tutu on any comparable physical test of endurance or strength, and above all, mental fortitude.
But even certain aspects of their technology were advanced, and comparatively also higher quality.
Even when the actual technology was not in fact more advanced, the level of skill in building it was absolutely phenomenal.
Obsidian knives made from a type of volcanic glass are so sharp they cut on a cellular level. They have been used as tools since the Stone Age.
The mechanical Turk although not an actual intelligent robot, is nevertheless an ingenious device that took a lot of time and extremely precise work to construct.
If you bother to read the classics, Herodotus, Homers, Plato, Aristotle, Julius Cesar, you will realise that the ancient also had great thinkers.
If modern men aspired to be more like their ancestors, the world could only benefit from it.
Ancient Technology
The ancients were far more advanced than modern people at almost every level on a personal level of ability to do things. Both mentally as well as physically. Your average man from the year 1000 could endure a lot more than the perfumed princes of today.
An actual knight in armour in the crusades would make a modern soldier look like a pansy in a tutu on any comparable physical test of endurance or strength, and above all, mental fortitude.
But even certain aspects of their technology were advanced, and comparatively also higher quality.
Even when the actual technology was not in fact more advanced, the level of skill in building it was absolutely phenomenal.
Obsidian knives made from a type of volcanic glass are so sharp they cut on a cellular level. They have been used as tools since the Stone Age.
The mechanical Turk although not an actual intelligent robot, is nevertheless an ingenious device that took a lot of time and extremely precise work to construct.
If you bother to read the classics, Herodotus, Homers, Plato, Aristotle, Julius Cesar, you will realise that the ancient also had great thinkers.
If modern men aspired to be more like their ancestors, the world could only benefit from it.
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