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81:1.1 For about thirty-five thousand years after the days of [[Adam]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_civilization cradle of civilization] was in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Asia southwestern Asia], extending from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile Nile valley] eastward and slightly to the north across northern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia], through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], and on into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan Turkestan]. And [[climate]] was the decisive [[factor]] in the [[establishment]] of [[civilization]] in that area.
81:1.2 It was the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change climatic] and [[geologic]] [[changes]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Africa northern Africa] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Asia western Asia] that terminated the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:3._EARLY_EXPANSIONS_OF_THE_ADAMITES early migrations of the Adamites], barring them from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] by the expanded [[Mediterranean]] and diverting the [[stream]] of [[migration]] north and east into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan Turkestan]. By the time of the completion of these [[land]] elevations and associated [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change climatic changes], about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15,000_BC 15,000 B.C.], [[civilization]] had settled down to a world-wide [[stalemate]] except for the [[cultural]] ferments and biologic reserves of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites] still confined by [[mountains]] to the east in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia] and by the expanding [[forests]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] to the west.
81:1.3 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change Climatic evolution] is now about to accomplish what all other [[efforts]] had failed to do, that is, to [[compel]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia Eurasian] man to abandon [[hunting]] for the more advanced callings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herding herding] and [[farming]]. [[Evolution]] may be slow, but it is terribly [[effective]].
81:1.4 Since [[slaves]] were so generally employed by the earlier [[agriculturists]], the farmer was formerly looked down on by both the [[hunter]] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herder herder]. For ages it was considered menial to till the [[soil]]; wherefore the [[idea]] that [[soil]] toil is a [[curse]], whereas it is the greatest of all [[blessings]]. Even in the days of [[Cain and Abel]] the [[sacrifices]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoralism pastoral life] were held in greater [[esteem]] than the offerings of [[agriculture]].
81:1.5 [[Man]] ordinarily evolved into a [[farmer]] from a [[hunter]] by [[transition]] through the era of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoralism herder], and this was also true among the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites], but more often the [[evolutionary]] [[coercion]] of [[Climate|climatic]] [[necessity]] would cause whole [[tribes]] to pass directly from [[hunters]] to successful [[farmers]]. But this [[phenomenon]] of passing [[immediately]] from [[hunting]] to [[agriculture]] only occurred in those regions where there was a high [[degree]] of race mixture with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet stock].
81:1.6 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR evolutionary peoples] (notably the [[Chinese]]) early [[learned]] to plant [[seeds]] and to cultivate crops through [[observation]] of the sprouting of seeds [[accidentally]] moistened or which had been put in [[graves]] as [[food]] for the departed. But throughout [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Asia southwest Asia], along the fertile [[river]] bottoms and adjacent [[plains]], the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites] were carrying out the improved [[agricultural]] [[techniques]] inherited from their [[ancestors]], who had made farming and gardening the chief pursuits within the boundaries of the [[second garden]].
81:1.7 For thousands of years the descendants of [[Adam]] had grown [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat wheat] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley barley], as improved in [[the Garden]], throughout the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan highlands] of the upper border of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. The descendants of [[Adam]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamson] here met, traded, and socially mingled.
81:1.8 It was these enforced [[changes]] in living conditions which caused such a large [[proportion]] of the human race to become [[omnivorous]] in [[Nutrition|dietetic]] [[practice]]. And the combination of the wheat, rice, and vegetable diet with the flesh of the herds marked a great forward step in the [[health]] and [[vigor]] of these [[ancient]] peoples.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_81 Go to Paper 81]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 81 - Development of Modern Civilization]]
81:1.1 For about thirty-five thousand years after the days of [[Adam]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_civilization cradle of civilization] was in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Asia southwestern Asia], extending from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile Nile valley] eastward and slightly to the north across northern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia], through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], and on into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan Turkestan]. And [[climate]] was the decisive [[factor]] in the [[establishment]] of [[civilization]] in that area.
81:1.2 It was the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change climatic] and [[geologic]] [[changes]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Africa northern Africa] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Asia western Asia] that terminated the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:3._EARLY_EXPANSIONS_OF_THE_ADAMITES early migrations of the Adamites], barring them from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] by the expanded [[Mediterranean]] and diverting the [[stream]] of [[migration]] north and east into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan Turkestan]. By the time of the completion of these [[land]] elevations and associated [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change climatic changes], about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15,000_BC 15,000 B.C.], [[civilization]] had settled down to a world-wide [[stalemate]] except for the [[cultural]] ferments and biologic reserves of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites] still confined by [[mountains]] to the east in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia] and by the expanding [[forests]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] to the west.
81:1.3 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change Climatic evolution] is now about to accomplish what all other [[efforts]] had failed to do, that is, to [[compel]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia Eurasian] man to abandon [[hunting]] for the more advanced callings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herding herding] and [[farming]]. [[Evolution]] may be slow, but it is terribly [[effective]].
81:1.4 Since [[slaves]] were so generally employed by the earlier [[agriculturists]], the farmer was formerly looked down on by both the [[hunter]] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herder herder]. For ages it was considered menial to till the [[soil]]; wherefore the [[idea]] that [[soil]] toil is a [[curse]], whereas it is the greatest of all [[blessings]]. Even in the days of [[Cain and Abel]] the [[sacrifices]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoralism pastoral life] were held in greater [[esteem]] than the offerings of [[agriculture]].
81:1.5 [[Man]] ordinarily evolved into a [[farmer]] from a [[hunter]] by [[transition]] through the era of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoralism herder], and this was also true among the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites], but more often the [[evolutionary]] [[coercion]] of [[Climate|climatic]] [[necessity]] would cause whole [[tribes]] to pass directly from [[hunters]] to successful [[farmers]]. But this [[phenomenon]] of passing [[immediately]] from [[hunting]] to [[agriculture]] only occurred in those regions where there was a high [[degree]] of race mixture with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet stock].
81:1.6 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR evolutionary peoples] (notably the [[Chinese]]) early [[learned]] to plant [[seeds]] and to cultivate crops through [[observation]] of the sprouting of seeds [[accidentally]] moistened or which had been put in [[graves]] as [[food]] for the departed. But throughout [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Asia southwest Asia], along the fertile [[river]] bottoms and adjacent [[plains]], the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites] were carrying out the improved [[agricultural]] [[techniques]] inherited from their [[ancestors]], who had made farming and gardening the chief pursuits within the boundaries of the [[second garden]].
81:1.7 For thousands of years the descendants of [[Adam]] had grown [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat wheat] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley barley], as improved in [[the Garden]], throughout the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan highlands] of the upper border of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. The descendants of [[Adam]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:5._ADAMSON_AND_RATTA Adamson] here met, traded, and socially mingled.
81:1.8 It was these enforced [[changes]] in living conditions which caused such a large [[proportion]] of the human race to become [[omnivorous]] in [[Nutrition|dietetic]] [[practice]]. And the combination of the wheat, rice, and vegetable diet with the flesh of the herds marked a great forward step in the [[health]] and [[vigor]] of these [[ancient]] peoples.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_81 Go to Paper 81]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 81 - Development of Modern Civilization]]
