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Ernst Hans Gombrich

A Little History of the World

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  • shiraz bukharihas quoted9 months ago
    names for things
  • shiraz bukharihas quoted9 months ago
    Snow lay deep throughout the year, not only on mountain tops, but down in the valleys as well, and glaciers, which were immense in those days, spread far out into the plains. This is why we say that the Stone Age began before the last Ice Age had ended. Prehistoric people must have suffered dreadfully from the cold, and if they came across a cave where they could shelter from the freezing winds, how happy they must have been! For this reason they are also known as ‘cavemen’, although they may not have actually lived in caves.

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  • shiraz bukharihas quoted9 months ago
    like ours it just had two thick ridges above the eyebrows. Now, if all our thinking goes on behind our foreheads and these people didn’t have any foreheads, then perhaps they didn’t think as much as we do
  • shiraz bukharihas quoted9 months ago
    Stop! When did that happen?’
  • shiraz bukharihas quoted9 months ago
    Now, try to imagine a thousand million years! At that time there were no large animals, just creatures like snails and worms. And before then there weren’t even any plants. The whole earth was a ‘formless void’. There was nothing. Not a tree, not a bush, not a blade of grass, not a flower, nothing green. Just barren desert rocks and the sea. An empty sea: no fish, no seashells, not even any seaweed. But if you listen to the waves, what do they say? ‘Once upon a time
  • kengerleehas quoted2 years ago
    mounds of rubble.

    One
  • kengerleehas quoted2 years ago
    bricks and rubble
  • kengerleehas quoted2 years ago
    Tigris and the Euphrates
  • kengerleehas quoted2 years ago
    three thousand years.
  • kengerleehas quoted2 years ago
    the Rosetta Stone
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