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80:7.1 During the decline of [[culture]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] there [[persisted]] for sometime a superior [[civilization]] on the islands of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization eastern Mediterranean].
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80:7.1 During the decline of [[culture]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] there [[persisted]] for sometime a superior [[civilization]] on the islands of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization eastern Mediterranean].
  
80:7.2 About [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12,000_BC 12,000 B.C.] a brilliant tribe of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites] migrated to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete]. This was the only island settled so early by such a superior group, and it was almost two thousand years before the descendants of these mariners spread to the neighboring isles. This group were the narrow-headed, smaller-statured Andites who had intermarried with the [[Van|Vanite]] division of the northern [[Nodites]]. They were all under six feet in height and had been [[literally]] driven off the mainland by their larger and inferior fellows. These [[emigrants]] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete] were highly skilled in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textiles textiles], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy metals], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery pottery], plumbing, and the use of stone for building [[material]]. They engaged in [[writing]] and carried on as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herder herders] and [[agriculturists]].
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80:7.2 About [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12,000_BC 12,000 B.C.] a brilliant tribe of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites] migrated to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete]. This was the only island settled so early by such a superior group, and it was almost two thousand years before the descendants of these mariners spread to the neighboring isles. This group were the narrow-headed, smaller-statured Andites who had intermarried with the [[Van|Vanite]] division of the northern [[Nodites]]. They were all under six feet in height and had been [[literally]] driven off the mainland by their larger and inferior fellows. These [[emigrants]] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete] were highly skilled in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textiles textiles], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy metals], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery pottery], plumbing, and the use of stone for building [[material]]. They engaged in [[writing]] and carried on as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herder herders] and [[agriculturists]].
  
80:7.3 Almost two thousand years after the settlement of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete] a group of the tall descendants of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamson] made their way over the northern islands to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece Greece], coming almost directly from their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurd highland home north of Mesopotamia]. These progenitors of the [[Greeks]] were led westward by Sato, a direct descendant of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamson and Ratta].
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80:7.3 Almost two thousand years after the settlement of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete] a group of the tall descendants of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamson] made their way over the northern islands to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece Greece], coming almost directly from their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurd highland home north of Mesopotamia]. These progenitors of the [[Greeks]] were led westward by Sato, a direct descendant of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamson and Ratta].
  
80:7.4 The group which finally settled in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greece] consisted of three hundred and seventy-five of the selected and superior people comprising the end of the second [[civilization]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamsonites]. These later sons of Adamson carried the then most valuable strains of the emerging [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_80#80:9._THE_THREE_WHITE_RACES white races]. They were of a high [[intellectual]] order and, [[physically]] regarded, the most [[beautiful]] of [[Human|men]] since the days of the [[first Eden]].
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80:7.4 The group which finally settled in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greece] consisted of three hundred and seventy-five of the selected and superior people comprising the end of the second [[civilization]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamsonites]. These later sons of Adamson carried the then most valuable strains of the emerging [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_80#80:9._THE_THREE_WHITE_RACES white races]. They were of a high [[intellectual]] order and, [[physically]] regarded, the most [[beautiful]] of [[Human|men]] since the days of the [[first Eden]].
  
80:7.5 Presently [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece Greece] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_islands Aegean Islands] region succeeded [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt] as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental] center of [[trade]], [[art]], and [[culture]]. But as it was in Egypt, so again practically all of the [[art]] and [[science]] of the Aegean world was derived from Mesopotamia except for the [[culture]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamsonite] forerunners of the [[Greeks]]. All the [[art]] and [[genius]] of these latter people is a direct [[legacy]] of the posterity of Adamson, the first son of [[Adam and Eve]], and his extraordinary second [[wife]], a daughter descended in an unbroken line from the [[pure]] [[Nodite]] staff of Prince [[Caligastia]]. No wonder the [[Greeks]] had [[mythological]] [[traditions]] that they were directly descended from [[gods]] and [[superhuman]] [[beings]].
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80:7.5 Presently [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece Greece] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_islands Aegean Islands] region succeeded [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt] as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental] center of [[trade]], [[art]], and [[culture]]. But as it was in Egypt, so again practically all of the [[art]] and [[science]] of the Aegean world was derived from Mesopotamia except for the [[culture]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamsonite] forerunners of the [[Greeks]]. All the [[art]] and [[genius]] of these latter people is a direct [[legacy]] of the posterity of Adamson, the first son of [[Adam and Eve]], and his extraordinary second [[wife]], a daughter descended in an unbroken line from the [[pure]] [[Nodite]] staff of Prince [[Caligastia]]. No wonder the [[Greeks]] had [[mythological]] [[traditions]] that they were directly descended from [[gods]] and [[superhuman]] [[beings]].
  
80:7.6 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_civilization Aegean region] passed through five distinct [[cultural]] [[stages]], each less [[spiritual]] than the preceding, and erelong the last [[glorious]] era of art perished beneath the weight of the rapidly multiplying mediocre descendants of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube Danubian] slaves who had been imported by the later [[generations]] of [[Greeks]].
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80:7.6 The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_civilization Aegean region] passed through five distinct [[cultural]] [[stages]], each less [[spiritual]] than the preceding, and erelong the last [[glorious]] era of art perished beneath the weight of the rapidly multiplying mediocre descendants of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube Danubian] slaves who had been imported by the later [[generations]] of [[Greeks]].
  
80:7.7 It was during this age in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete] that the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mother_Goddess mother cult] of the descendants of [[Cain]] [[attained]] its greatest [[vogue]]. This [[cult]] [[glorified]] [[Eve]] in the [[worship]] of the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mother great mother]." Images of [[Eve]] were everywhere. Thousands of [[public]] [[shrines]] were erected throughout [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Minor Asia Minor]. And this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mother_Goddess mother cult] persisted on down to the times of [[Christ]], becoming later incorporated in the early [[Christian]] [[religion]] under the [[guise]] of the [[glorification]] and [[worship]] of [[Mary (Jesus' mother)|Mary]] the [[earth]] [[mother]] of [[Jesus]].
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80:7.7 It was during this age in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete] that the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mother_Goddess mother cult] of the descendants of [[Cain]] [[attained]] its greatest [[vogue]]. This [[cult]] [[glorified]] [[Eve]] in the [[worship]] of the "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mother great mother]." Images of [[Eve]] were everywhere. Thousands of [[public]] [[shrines]] were erected throughout [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Minor Asia Minor]. And this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mother_Goddess mother cult] persisted on down to the times of [[Christ]], becoming later incorporated in the early [[Christian]] [[religion]] under the [[guise]] of the [[glorification]] and [[worship]] of [[Mary (Jesus' mother)|Mary]] the [[earth]] [[mother]] of [[Jesus]].
  
80:7.8 By about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6500_B.C. 6500 B.C.] there had occurred a great decline in the [[spiritual]] [[heritage]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites]. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE descendants of Adam] were widespreadly [[dispersed]] and had been virtually swallowed up in the older and more numerous [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR human races]. And this [[decadence]] of Andite civilization, together with the disappearance of their [[religious]] [[standards]], left the [[spiritually]] impoverished [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA races of the world] in a deplorable condition.
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80:7.8 By about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6500_B.C. 6500 B.C.] there had occurred a great decline in the [[spiritual]] [[heritage]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites]. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE descendants of Adam] were widespreadly [[dispersed]] and had been virtually swallowed up in the older and more numerous [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR human races]. And this [[decadence]] of Andite civilization, together with the disappearance of their [[religious]] [[standards]], left the [[spiritually]] impoverished [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA races of the world] in a deplorable condition.
  
80:7.9 By [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_B.C. 5000 B.C.] the three [[purest]] strains of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE Adam's descendants] were in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumeria], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe northern Europe], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greece]. The whole of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] was being slowly deteriorated by the stream of mixed and darker races which filtered in from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia]. And the coming of these inferior peoples [[contributed]] further to the scattering abroad of the [[biologic]] and [[cultural]] residue of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites]. From all over the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertile_crescent fertile crescent] the more [[adventurous]] peoples poured westward to the [[Mediterranean|islands]]. These migrants cultivated both [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain grain] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetables vegetables], and they brought [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_animals domesticated animals] with them.
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80:7.9 By [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_B.C. 5000 B.C.] the three [[purest]] strains of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE Adam's descendants] were in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumeria], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe northern Europe], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greece]. The whole of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] was being slowly deteriorated by the stream of mixed and darker races which filtered in from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia]. And the coming of these inferior peoples [[contributed]] further to the scattering abroad of the [[biologic]] and [[cultural]] residue of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites]. From all over the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertile_crescent fertile crescent] the more [[adventurous]] peoples poured westward to the [[Mediterranean|islands]]. These migrants cultivated both [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain grain] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetables vegetables], and they brought [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_animals domesticated animals] with them.
  
80:7.10 About [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_B.C. 5000 B.C.] a mighty host of [[progressive]] Mesopotamians moved out of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates Euphrates valley] and settled upon the island of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus Cyprus]; this [[civilization]] was wiped out about two thousand years subsequently by the [[barbarian]] hordes from the north.
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80:7.10 About [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_B.C. 5000 B.C.] a mighty host of [[progressive]] Mesopotamians moved out of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates Euphrates valley] and settled upon the island of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus Cyprus]; this [[civilization]] was wiped out about two thousand years subsequently by the [[barbarian]] hordes from the north.
  
80:7.11 Another great colony settled on the [[Mediterranean]] near the later site of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage Carthage]. And from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa north Africa] large numbers of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:6._THE_LAST_ANDITE_DISPERSIONS Andites] entered [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain Spain] and later mingled in [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland Switzerland] with their brethren who had earlier come to [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy Italy] from the [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_Islands Aegean Islands].
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80:7.11 Another great colony settled on the [[Mediterranean]] near the later site of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage Carthage]. And from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa north Africa] large numbers of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:6._THE_LAST_ANDITE_DISPERSIONS Andites] entered [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain Spain] and later mingled in [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland Switzerland] with their brethren who had earlier come to [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy Italy] from the [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_Islands Aegean Islands].
  
80:7.12 When [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt] followed [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] in [[cultural decline]], many of the more able and advanced [[families]] fled to [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete], thus greatly augmenting this already advanced [[civilization]]. And when the arrival of inferior groups from [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt] later threatened the [[civilization]] of [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete], the more cultured [[families]] moved on west to [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greece].
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80:7.12 When [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt] followed [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] in [[cultural decline]], many of the more able and advanced [[families]] fled to [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete], thus greatly augmenting this already advanced [[civilization]]. And when the arrival of inferior groups from [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt] later threatened the [[civilization]] of [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete], the more cultured [[families]] moved on west to [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greece].
  
80:7.13 The [[Greeks]] were not only great [[teachers]] and [[artists]], they were also the world's greatest [[traders]] and colonizers. Before succumbing to the flood of inferiority which [[eventually]] engulfed their [[art]] and [[commerce]], they succeeded in planting so many outposts of [[culture]] to the west that a great many of the advances in early Greek civilization [[persisted]] in the later peoples of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization southern Europe], and many of the mixed descendants of these [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamsonites] became incorporated in the tribes of the adjacent mainlands.
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80:7.13 The [[Greeks]] were not only great [[teachers]] and [[artists]], they were also the world's greatest [[traders]] and colonizers. Before succumbing to the flood of inferiority which [[eventually]] engulfed their [[art]] and [[commerce]], they succeeded in planting so many outposts of [[culture]] to the west that a great many of the advances in early Greek civilization [[persisted]] in the later peoples of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization southern Europe], and many of the mixed descendants of these [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamsonites] became incorporated in the tribes of the adjacent mainlands.
  
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80:7.1 During the decline of culture in Mesopotamia there persisted for sometime a superior civilization on the islands of the eastern Mediterranean.

80:7.2 About 12,000 B.C. a brilliant tribe of Andites migrated to Crete. This was the only island settled so early by such a superior group, and it was almost two thousand years before the descendants of these mariners spread to the neighboring isles. This group were the narrow-headed, smaller-statured Andites who had intermarried with the Vanite division of the northern Nodites. They were all under six feet in height and had been literally driven off the mainland by their larger and inferior fellows. These emigrants to Crete were highly skilled in textiles, metals, pottery, plumbing, and the use of stone for building material. They engaged in writing and carried on as herders and agriculturists.

80:7.3 Almost two thousand years after the settlement of Crete a group of the tall descendants of Adamson made their way over the northern islands to Greece, coming almost directly from their highland home north of Mesopotamia. These progenitors of the Greeks were led westward by Sato, a direct descendant of Adamson and Ratta.

80:7.4 The group which finally settled in Greece consisted of three hundred and seventy-five of the selected and superior people comprising the end of the second civilization of the Adamsonites. These later sons of Adamson carried the then most valuable strains of the emerging white races. They were of a high intellectual order and, physically regarded, the most beautiful of men since the days of the first Eden.

80:7.5 Presently Greece and the Aegean Islands region succeeded Mesopotamia and Egypt as the Occidental center of trade, art, and culture. But as it was in Egypt, so again practically all of the art and science of the Aegean world was derived from Mesopotamia except for the culture of the Adamsonite forerunners of the Greeks. All the art and genius of these latter people is a direct legacy of the posterity of Adamson, the first son of Adam and Eve, and his extraordinary second wife, a daughter descended in an unbroken line from the pure Nodite staff of Prince Caligastia. No wonder the Greeks had mythological traditions that they were directly descended from gods and superhuman beings.

80:7.6 The Aegean region passed through five distinct cultural stages, each less spiritual than the preceding, and erelong the last glorious era of art perished beneath the weight of the rapidly multiplying mediocre descendants of the Danubian slaves who had been imported by the later generations of Greeks.

80:7.7 It was during this age in Crete that the mother cult of the descendants of Cain attained its greatest vogue. This cult glorified Eve in the worship of the "great mother." Images of Eve were everywhere. Thousands of public shrines were erected throughout Crete and Asia Minor. And this mother cult persisted on down to the times of Christ, becoming later incorporated in the early Christian religion under the guise of the glorification and worship of Mary the earth mother of Jesus.

80:7.8 By about 6500 B.C. there had occurred a great decline in the spiritual heritage of the Andites. The descendants of Adam were widespreadly dispersed and had been virtually swallowed up in the older and more numerous human races. And this decadence of Andite civilization, together with the disappearance of their religious standards, left the spiritually impoverished races of the world in a deplorable condition.

80:7.9 By 5000 B.C. the three purest strains of Adam's descendants were in Sumeria, northern Europe, and Greece. The whole of Mesopotamia was being slowly deteriorated by the stream of mixed and darker races which filtered in from Arabia. And the coming of these inferior peoples contributed further to the scattering abroad of the biologic and cultural residue of the Andites. From all over the fertile crescent the more adventurous peoples poured westward to the islands. These migrants cultivated both grain and vegetables, and they brought domesticated animals with them.

80:7.10 About 5000 B.C. a mighty host of progressive Mesopotamians moved out of the Euphrates valley and settled upon the island of Cyprus; this civilization was wiped out about two thousand years subsequently by the barbarian hordes from the north.

80:7.11 Another great colony settled on the Mediterranean near the later site of Carthage. And from north Africa large numbers of Andites entered Spain and later mingled in Switzerland with their brethren who had earlier come to Italy from the Aegean Islands.

80:7.12 When Egypt followed Mesopotamia in cultural decline, many of the more able and advanced families fled to Crete, thus greatly augmenting this already advanced civilization. And when the arrival of inferior groups from Egypt later threatened the civilization of Crete, the more cultured families moved on west to Greece.

80:7.13 The Greeks were not only great teachers and artists, they were also the world's greatest traders and colonizers. Before succumbing to the flood of inferiority which eventually engulfed their art and commerce, they succeeded in planting so many outposts of culture to the west that a great many of the advances in early Greek civilization persisted in the later peoples of southern Europe, and many of the mixed descendants of these Adamsonites became incorporated in the tribes of the adjacent mainlands.

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