12-06-2007, 02:08 AM
I have been reading World Hisory along wit my son. One fact I noticed about Europeans was thy always had non-local(foreigners) as their rulers from the ancient times. The current British were subjected to invasions and conquests and the the leaders/ruling elite were of the conquering people. The Romans, the Angles, the Saxons, the Picts and the Normans etc wee among the conquering people. Similarly the Russians had the Vikings, the Tatars and so on conquering them and formingthe ruling elite. The French and Germans we already know.
So is it possible that they came up with the AIT to be similar to their own experience? They could not reconcile that there could be an advanced civilization based on native intelligence.
So is it possible that they came up with the AIT to be similar to their own experience? They could not reconcile that there could be an advanced civilization based on native intelligence.