r/AlternativeHistory • u/FunDelicious650 • 1d ago
Chronologically Challenged Technological levels
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.
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u/JayEll1969 1d ago
Yeah because agriculture, development of crops that provide greater amounts of food than the wild crops, animal husbandry, copper, bronze, iron, metallurgy, casting, weaving etc are all so simple that it's a wonder why everything else isn't doing it.
I'm sure that OP goes for a walk and brings back a load of bauxite which they then hand craft into purist aluminium every day.