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Preface
Reading
of the history of most nations is
like playing a
harp with a single string. For
political and
religious reasons history was
written to suit
the present at the time and
place, without
any attempt to answer
"why?".
The word History, originally
Greek and
meaning inquiry, is to be used
to designate
both things that happened in
the
past and the recorded memory of the
past. All things that have a past history,
may be said to include everything that
happened and as it happened. Since
the
beginning of written words that has
survived, western and eastern
scholars
alike developed twisted and modified
stories into their writings to suit their own
reasons. All of their so-called historic
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explanations have
one thing in common
Consciously or unconsciously, they all
derived
from theological or ideological
suppositions, from psychological
stereotypes or
from wishful thinking, and
not from
careful analysis of historical
processes.
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Civilizations had and do die out,
however,
civilized nations do not plunge
into
primitive cultures and rapidly
multiply in
population as the Egyptians,
Greeks,
Macedonians, Romans, Chinese,
Arabs,
Indians had in the last three
thousand
years. They all lost the ancient
knowledge
simply because they did not
developed
with it, they never been part of
those
claimed civilizations at those
locations.
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