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78:1.2 [[Adam and Eve]] also [[contributed]] much that was of [[value]] to the [[social]], [[moral]], and [[intellectual]] [[progress]] of [[mankind]]; [[civilization]] was immensely quickened by the [[presence]] of their [[offspring]]. But thirty-five thousand years ago the world at large possessed little [[culture]]. Certain [[centers]] of [[civilization]] existed here and there, but most of [[Urantia]] languished in [[savagery]]. [[Racial]] and [[cultural]] [[distribution]] was as follows:

78:1.2 [[Adam and Eve]] also [[contributed]] much that was of [[value]] to the [[social]], [[moral]], and [[intellectual]] [[progress]] of [[mankind]]; [[civilization]] was immensely quickened by the [[presence]] of their [[offspring]]. But thirty-five thousand years ago the world at large possessed little [[culture]]. Certain [[centers]] of [[civilization]] existed here and there, but most of [[Urantia]] languished in [[savagery]]. [[Racial]] and [[cultural]] [[distribution]] was as follows:

*1. 78:1.3 ''The violet race''— [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE Adamites and Adamsonites]. The chief [[center]] of Adamite culture was in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#PAPER_76:_THE_SECOND_GARDEN second garden], located in the triangle of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris-Euphrates_river_system Tigris and Euphrates rivers]; this was indeed the [[cradle]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India Indian] civilizations. The secondary or northern center of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race] was the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamsonite headquarters], situated east of the southern shore of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea Caspian Sea] near the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopet_Range Kopet mountains]. From these two centers there went forth to the [[surrounding]] lands the [[culture]] and [[life plasm]] which so immediately quickened all the [[races]].

*1. 78:1.3 ''The violet race''— [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE Adamites and Adamsonites]. The chief [[center]] of Adamite culture was in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#PAPER_76:_THE_SECOND_GARDEN second garden], located in the triangle of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris-Euphrates_river_system Tigris and Euphrates rivers]; this was indeed the [[cradle]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India Indian] civilizations. The secondary or northern center of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race] was the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamsonite headquarters], situated east of the southern shore of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea Caspian Sea] near the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopet_Dag Kopet mountains]. From these two centers there went forth to the [[surrounding]] lands the [[culture]] and [[life plasm]] which so immediately quickened all the [[races]].

*2. 78:1.4 ''Pre-Sumerians and other Nodites''. There were also present in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], near the mouth of the [[rivers]], remnants of the [[ancient]] [[culture]] of the days of [[Dalamatia]]. With the passing [[millenniums]], this group became thoroughly admixed with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites] to the north, but they never entirely lost their [[Nodite]] [[traditions]]. Various other [[Nodite]] groups that had settled in the [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levant] were, in general, absorbed by the later expanding [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race].

*2. 78:1.4 ''Pre-Sumerians and other Nodites''. There were also present in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], near the mouth of the [[rivers]], remnants of the [[ancient]] [[culture]] of the days of [[Dalamatia]]. With the passing [[millenniums]], this group became thoroughly admixed with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites] to the north, but they never entirely lost their [[Nodite]] [[traditions]]. Various other [[Nodite]] groups that had settled in the [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levant] were, in general, absorbed by the later expanding [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race].

*3. 78:1.5 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonites] maintained five or six fairly [[representative]] settlements to the north and east of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamson headquarters]. They were also scattered throughout [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan Turkestan], while isolated islands of them [[persisted]] throughout [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia Eurasia], especially in mountainous regions. These [[aborigines]] still held the northlands of the Eurasian continent, together with [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland Iceland] and [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland Greenland], but they had long since been driven from the plains of [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA blue man] and from the [[river]] valleys of farther [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia] by the expanding [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland Greenland], but they had long since been driven from the plains of [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA yellow race].

*3. 78:1.5 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonites] maintained five or six fairly [[representative]] settlements to the north and east of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamson headquarters]. They were also scattered throughout [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan Turkestan], while isolated islands of them [[persisted]] throughout [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia Eurasia], especially in mountainous regions. These [[aborigines]] still held the northlands of the Eurasian continent, together with [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland Iceland] and [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland Greenland], but they had long since been driven from the plains of [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA blue man] and from the [[river]] valleys of farther [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia] by the expanding [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland Greenland], but they had long since been driven from the plains of [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA yellow race].