>>7058629There's a difference:
People back then had the capacity for the same level of intelligence as people are today. Like, if you had a time machine and took someone from back then and gave them a 21st Century education, they wouldn't be any less "dumb" than anyone else today.
However, people back then didn't have the same EXPERIENCE we have today. They didn't have gun powder, World Wars, cell phones, airplanes, atomics, physics, advanced metalurgy, microprocessors, etc, that we have today, and all that education (or lack thereof) absolutely affects one's worldview and ability to process information.
This also means that no one back then would've been able to invent anything we have today, simply because they had no way to understand how to invent everything else that is required to then invent something we have today... for the same reason why no one here today has the ability to develop a way to fold time-space or construct an element of atomic weight of 130 or something... but that might be child's play for someone in 200 years or so.
