Evolution History
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Bronze age to the Silk Road
Light comes to Europe
Age of global empires
19th Century
The 19th Century was a time of great change. Population growth changed from linear to cubic to exponential. Monarchies fell. The role of religion in government withered in the West. Technological progress was astounding, and the status of science elevated. Secular philosophies florished, and secular sciences expanded dramatically. Psychology was established. Anthropology was established. The list goes on: modern geology, organic chemistry, electricity, photography. This amazing age also saw the publication of the Origin of Species, a work that firmly established humanity's connection with the rest of life and influenced many secular thinkers.
1826AD First photographs
It is difficult to imagine all of the effects of photography on humanity, but it clearly brought the world closer, and made it much more difficult to spin tall tales about wild adventures. Conversely, it brought an air of profound authenticity to those things that were indeed real. Photography's effect on fanciful exaggeration is analgous to the Internet's effect on urban legends.
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