The Flow of Human Civilization

About six thousand years ago a community of humans that had been living a primitive existence on a coast of Asia for thousands of years was shaken by the fall of small hot comet fragments with cool interiors. These fragments brought with them humans genes, incorporated in bacterial hosts that were required to create the most basic of civilized humans.

It was not long before the good old influenza virus all armed with these new genes set about transporting these genes to the local community. Orthomyxoviruses usually infect the upper respiratory tract (throat and upper lungs) because these tissues have plenty of the receptors for the influenza virus. Modern scientists on earth believe that the influenza virus is constantly changing its genes because of errors in replication or mutations. It is not so. The humble virus is a gene transporter that constantly transports required genes from species to species. It has a fragile RNA code that can pick and drop new genes easily but not one that is prone to errors. When an error does take place the virus withers and dies by killing itself and its host.
Returning, to the primitive community on coast , they emerged from the common cold as civilized humans that wanted to develop pottery, cities, and agriculture, and become literate by developing writing. These communities developed the first pictorial symbols to represent human names and words. Remaining at first a limited community for several hundred years these coastal people were eventually forced to move northwards and westwards due to seismic disturbance and submergence of their coastal cities about five and a half thousand years ago. They chose only arid plains to establish their new habitations, along the greatest of rivers that flowed at that time, since it is these they were used to and familiar with. Interaction with existing local communities in their new habitats provided them with much needed manpower for a rapid expansion of civilization. Forests scared them because of the threat of wild animals and they were completely unfamiliar with mountain territories considering them unsuitable for agriculture and hence these were avoided in the first march of human civilisation. A branch of this community migrated to what is now Iraq and developed the Sumerian civilization on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates. From here they spread to the Nile valley as well. All along the humble cold virus remained busy transferring essential genetic information to local communities, these early migrants came in contact with. There are varieties of the influenza virus that transport genes across species and varieties that transport genes within a species.
These early civilisation developed many technologies such as metals, glass, textiles, food control, agriculture and irrigation. Gold, copper, bronze, and iron were used for different ornaments, weapons and vessels. The Indus valley people developed the first written symbols that they inscribed on clay tablets. Their well planned cities were far better planned then modern Indian cities. The Sumerians added a host of new pictorial symbols to the original ones they had brought from the Indus valley and later also developed the first abstract human alphabet. They began to describe more than just names, lineages and identity tags that the indus valley people used to inscribe. The Egyptians who had developed the pictorial script into a great art, however had no use for the newer abstract one and ignored it. The Egyptians driven by poweful Pharaos accomplished great feats of enginering. There is no mystery to the pyramids. The pyramid blocks are not huge stone blocks, but blocks cast in situ out of Egyptian cement developed on site from local rocks. The special neural genes that lead to the evolved royal Egyptian speices is too large to be carried and transported by the influenza virus that carries its code in ten or eleven pieces. Originally inserted as a rare sequence by a DNA virus the Pharaonic gene spreads mainly by reproduction. The royal families guarded it jealously by marrying within the family and exterminating a chance reproduction outside of it. Therefore, the Royal Egyptian genes did not spread widely in human communities. Fortunately that is not the case with the rudimentary genes that led to humans becoming civilized.
There are many similarities between Sumer, Egypt and the Indus Valley – the sites of earth’s earliest civilizations. These are some of the hottest, driest and most inhospitable places on the planet. It takes considerable agronomic and hydrological knowledge to convert the marshes and control the floods to turn these into productive farmlands. When you examine the ziggurats of ancient Sumer, the pyramids of Egypt or the ruined cities of Indus Valley, you do not see lush fertile plains but vast, blistering, desert expanses. Sumer, Egypt and the Indus Valley share some other critical features in common, which make them unlikely places for primitive peoples to have developed earth’s first civilizations. We should expect to find civilizations evolving in more hospitable places. Civilization originated in these harsh, desert environs lacking many basic resources. Rapidly they invented mining, chariot, sailboat, writing, cities, engineering and so on, and all this while most of the world’s tribes was still living as hunter-gatherers. You cannot explain the radical departure from the human norm by several tribes through Darwinism. Genetic deviations and the ubiquitous influenza virus that arrived one summer morning on an Asian coast were responsible for it.
The first Indo-Aryan communities of Khatti/Hittite, and those of Phoenicians that lived to the north of Mesopatamia came in contact with the Sumerians, rapidly acquiring these genetic modification through cross breeding, thanks again to the influenza virus. Phoenician come from the older Mediterranean sub-stratum predating both the Semitic and Indo-Aryan groups. The more vigorous health and moral disciplined life of Indo-Aryans lead to the development of an even more vigorous civilisation in Anatolia by about 1400 BC. Large areas of Anatolia were infused with the culture of Mesopotamia from 1700 BC onwards. The indo-aryans then spread quickly through the old world, both westwards and eastwards, spreading their language and culture. Arya or Aryans was how the hittites introduced themselves to the outside world because the Sumerians called them that. In ancient Sumerian language Arya means the shining ones. That is what they called the Hitttites because of their lighter complexion and lighter hair. The Sumerians themseves were black haired although they were not negroid.
It took yet another viral insertion close to 800 BC to create the Athenian Civilisation. This was another genitic modification initially introduced by a virus that spreads mainly later through breeding. Fortunately for Europe, the Athenians were not as zealous as the Pharaos to protect their genetic development, or atleast the spartans ensured that it would not be so by pulling down their city walls. All of Europe benifited. This genetic modification has bypassed all human communities except the European ones till today because they lack the earlier genetic sequence to make it functional. Even Gypsy communities that live in Europe cannot acquire the Athenian genes for the same reason. It is not surprising then that they are the only community that lives in squalor in an otherwise well mantained Europe. The gypsies migrated to Europe from India several centuries ago. It is for similar reasons that many of the cities on earth today, except european influenced ones are disorganised. The earliest genetic sequences that helped create the Indus, Sumerian and Egyptian civilisations has become ineffective in the modern environment. It is only effective when combined with a strict moral and legal discipline that could be enforced by ancient religions and monarchies. It is absent in the present scientific and apparently democratic age. Japanese though, and to an extent the Chinese as well have a variant of the same sequence of genes that runs through Europe.
The more recent genetic evolution that led to Industrial revolution in Europe is an independent sequence of genes also spread by the influenza virus. Similar is the case with the most recent Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. It caused a vigorous infection in those that did not carry some earlier genetic squences leading to death of the host and the virus. However, some that emerged from that viral insertion, emerged as the most advanced human nerds yet seen on earth. They were able to conceptualise world wars, nuclear energy and the modern computer.
Evolution though complicated is really a simple matter for Nature, as simple as catching the common cold. However it is unfortunate that large tracts of mankind still function with primitive forms. It is possible that it will remain so far into the future, because as existing humans evolve new primitive ones may emege. Even the earliest Sumerian genes have not yet reached sizable sections of the human community on earth. This is because they have missed an earlier genetic sequence that must be installed first before later ones can be accepted or switched on by the human genome. They would continue as hunter-gatherers if civilisation is not imposed on them from the outside. However, it is the direct responsibility of all evoloved beings to protect and nurture all others. It is also possible to exploit those who are less evolved but such actions cannot go unobserved by Nature, and just as Nature knows how to evolve beings It also knows how to snuff them out. The Spanish flu or the HIV virus is just a mild example of Nature's wrath. The best of Humans have not evolved on earth yet to the point that they could put a stop to the sort of exploitation that is going on in Somalia or the daily dose of killings that persist in Baghdad. Therefore Humans have yet to traverse the long road ahead to becoming truly God like.