>>38449603Oh, definitely, definitely. It's crazy to think how far back human history goes: think about how far back even the late middle ages are to us. That's how far back the Roman empire seemed to them. And then the same can be said of the Homeric greeks to the Romans, and the Akkadians and Sumerians to the homerics. Then you take how far back Akkad must be to us, and you get things like the early settlements in Jericho, 8,000 years old. To think civilization has been going on for that long, that we've come so far, and yet so little has changed, especially with regards to us being human... it makes you feel small, makes history seem that much bigger, especially when you're present in a ruin, and you know that people lived there thousands of years ago.
And that's not even scratching the surface for the history of life on land, which puts barely a dent in life on earth, which isn't even that long compared to the length of the universe. Things are really, really big, and I think we often don't understand the sheer magnitude of it all.
