Amazing stuff.
To go so far technologically but only really take off in the past century...it’s odd.
All of these intelligent people and groups throughout history and yet technological advances were stopped or stalled due to war or natural disaster...
If Rome had traveled on a straight line up to now, how far advanced would they have been?
Or even further back, Egypt.
If Rome had traveled on a straight line up to now, how far advanced would they have been?
Or even further back, Egypt.”
Rome had all the time in the world to advance, the better part of a millenia. They had a working steam engine. It was considered a toy. Great civilizations rose, ruled, dominated and fell without building upon what they knew.
The trick to advancement was learned when Anno Domine came along, AD, the year of Our Lord. (You know, the designation that “science” today is trying to replace with “CE”).
The church gathered existing knowledge and created the scientific method as a means of advancing man’s understanding of God’s Creation. The church required clergy to be educated to the highest levels possible.
It was the Church bringing knowledge thru the Dark Ages and figuring out a way to reliably build upon it and advance it that put men on the moon in 2000, or rather, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine years.