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SOURCES AND MORE INFO BELOW: Jared Diamond's "The World Until Yesterday": http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-World-Until-Yesterday-Traditional/dp/0141024488/ music by: youtube.com/jakechudnow Follow...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.This picture isabout a year and a half old. But the pyramids themselvesare much older than that. How much older? Well, think of it this way.The Pyramids of Giza were asold to the ancient Romans as the ancient Romansare to us. When the pyramids were being builtthere were woolly mammoths living on Wrangel Island.That's pretty old. But don't get too impressed.We often learn about the past in units, separatechapters, which distracts from the fact that many chapters aren'tjust nearer each other than you might think, they are oftenliterally written on top of one another. Anne Frankand Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the exact same year.By the late 1960s humans had come a long way.We've become a spacefaring specie...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.This picture isabout a year and a half old. But the pyramids themselvesare much older than that. How much older? Well, think of it this way.The Pyramids of Giza were asold to the ancient Romans as the ancient Romansare to us. When the pyramids were being builtthere were woolly mammoths living on Wrangel Island.That's pretty old. But don't get too impressed.We often learn about the past in units, separatechapters, which distracts from the fact that many chapters aren'tjust nearer each other than you might think, they are oftenliterally written on top of one another. Anne Frankand Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the exact same year.By the late 1960s humans had come a long way.We've become a spacefaring specie...
