My sister’s favorite western cartoon is Avatar. She recognizes the themes of war, racism, and colonialism.
My brother’s favorite movie is Avatar (James Cameron)
They’re both racist conservatives lol. My brother is even a Reaganite even though he never lived through his presidency. ( I feel like it’s one thing to be a fan of historical figures you’ve never lived under like :lenin-sure: but Reagan is a modern figure lol).
A few hundred thousand years humans hadn't left africa, a few more and there aren't any modern humans at all. That doesn't leave a lot of room for these civs in the historical record.
Yeah, that's what I tried telling him. Modern humans didn't leave Africa until 60,000 to 90,000 years ago and that's well established in the fossil record. Earlier types of humans had left Africa, like homo erectus had a range all the way from Europe to Indonesia about 2 million years ago. Neanderthals were in central Asia 400,000 years ago. So this guy would have to believe ancient technological civilizations were built by earlier types of humans, or these ancient civilizations weren't human at all. He might be confused about the time frame of human evolution.
In my experience this is the case for a huge amount of people.