I remember having similar thoughts of awe about how _old_ are things in this region of the earth, when I was listening to one of the famous Dan Carlin hardcore history series.
There he mentioned how when the romans were conquering Babylon, it had already had a 3000 year history. So its like similar time from us to the romans, as the relative starts of those two civilizations.
Babylon was _old_ and they knew it - who was this young upstart trying to recklessly mess with the natural order?
I can’t even process things like 12-14 _thousand_ years of human civilization…
What's even nuttier is that them invading something with a 3000 year history would be a little like us stumbling over ancient Rome today it having been a thing for that long.
On the other hand, one could argue the cultures around the North Atlantic are close enough to Roman culture and jurisprudence that we are to ancient Rome what later Babylon was to earlier Babylon?
There he mentioned how when the romans were conquering Babylon, it had already had a 3000 year history. So its like similar time from us to the romans, as the relative starts of those two civilizations. Babylon was _old_ and they knew it - who was this young upstart trying to recklessly mess with the natural order?
I can’t even process things like 12-14 _thousand_ years of human civilization…