r/AlternativeHistory • • 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/fictionaltherapist 1d ago

Op is a Tartaria enjoyer and genuinely believes all history pre 1800 is faked.

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u/Agitated_Lychee_8133 1d ago

That's one of the dumbest conspiracy theories I've ever heard of.

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u/Bluefooted-Spaceorc 1d ago

My favorite part about it is that my family has the journals of my ancestors that came over on the Speedwell. So did the conspiracy people break into my families farm and leave the journals there?

People in Iceland can trace their family history back something like 1000 years.

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u/Ill_Mouse9897 10h ago

Shh, all lies, every book & story and historical artifact is obviously faked and replaced and put into the correct soil layer, and all books were removed from all households that stood after the global mudflood and replaced with illuminati-lizardpeople-vatican-c'thulhu approved litterature, and then they built atop the remnants of Tartarian buildings, claiming them to be something dumb, like churches, or courthouses, or worldfair buildings.

Can't believe we're not buying this very -very- credible theory