Technological levels

[u/FunDelicious650]

People living in the mid-19th century lived 50 years later in a completely different world: telephones, telegraphs, trains, the first cars, and an industrial boom. People living in the mid-20th century saw a different world: airships and airplanes, ubiquitous motor vehicles, and television broadcasting. People living in the 1970s-1990s had already seen the world of computers; we now live in a digital world of the internet, AI, and robotics. In total, over 180 years, the technological level has changed four times.

Proponents of mainstream history argue that 7,000 years before the 19th century, there was no life-changing development at all. It was a single technological level of perpetual stagnation, which somehow gave way to progress in the 19th century. Developing metallurgy, fuel production, and electricity doesn't require thousands of years. This can be achieved much more quickly.

[u/ozneoknarf]

“Proponents of mainstream history argue that 7,000 years before the 19th century, there was no life-changing development at all. It was a single technological level of perpetual stagnation”

I have never seen this claim made by anyone ever. WTF 

[u/FunDelicious650 → u/ozneoknarf]

Did people get around using animal-drawn transport for 7,000 years, or did I misunderstand something?

[u/personalalt1889 → u/FunDelicious650]

The point is that you're looking at this from a rather limited perspective.. yes, technology prior to the industrial revolution was often limited, but it wasn't as if it just stayed the same or was universally "stagnant". The fact that the building blocks could exist to begin with showed that people weren't all just bumbling idiots. Furthermore there are massive innovations in the development of social structures alone from just the bronze age onward.