This question has intrigued me a lot. Our history is based on books and inscriptions, and it does not go beyond 8,000 or 9,000 years ago.
So what was there in the world before that time?
Why was there a sudden burst in human population at that time?
Why hadn’t humans learned to write until that time, even though human remains are found even older than 50,000 years?
Have you thought about these questions? 
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Yes, I think over this.
I think rapid changes incurred because people then knew how to grow food (agriculture) and then started building small villages (permanent places). Even today, people who wander around and have no permanent place of living (like gypsies) don't know how to read and write. So living together in small villages after the men knew how to grow food eventually lead to writing, etc.
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Sibt e Hasan's book 'Maazi ke mazaar' tries to give answers of questions you raised.
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^ can you please share some information from the book?
Re: What was there in the world 10,000 years ago?
Sibt e Hasan's book 'Maazi ke mazaar' tries to give answers of questions you raised.
What this book say?
Re: What was there in the world 10,000 years ago?
100,000 years ago, hmmm may be it was when hazrat aadam and Bibi hawa's were alive.
This question has intrigued me a lot. Our history is based on books and inscriptions, and it does not go beyond 8,000 or 9,000 years ago. So what was there in the world before that time? Why was there a sudden burst in human population at that time? Why hadn't humans learned to write until that time, even though human remains are found even older than 50,000 years?
Have you thought about these questions? :)
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100,000 years ago, hmmm may be it was when hazrat aadam and Bibi hawa's were alive.
As per Torah its true, but archeology says that humans lived on earth way before 10,000 years
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some extracts from the Book
Re: What was there in the world 10,000 years ago?
This question has intrigued me a lot. Our history is based on books and inscriptions, and it does not go beyond 8,000 or 9,000 years ago. So what was there in the world before that time? Why was there a sudden burst in human population at that time? Why hadn't humans learned to write until that time, even though human remains are found even older than 50,000 years?
Have you thought about these questions? :)
Early humans were hunter-gatherers. Moving around to find food put a limit on the population size, as the naturally occurring food in an area would only support a certain population size.
Human population growth is attributed to the development of agriculture. Once humans started settling down in an area and began farming, they were able to produce larger amounts of food and ultimately the population grew in size.
A good example is the Aboriginals of Australia. They lived in Australia for roughly as long as humans lived in Europe, but never adopted an agricultural lifestyle, instead remaining hunter-gatherers for about 42,000 years to now.
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So living together in small villages after the men knew how to grow food eventually lead to writing, etc.
That is true. And it is a proof that we as individuals have no value. It is only the combined work of a group or nation which changes things.
Organization and learning from others, are the attributes which distinguish humans from other creatures.
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They learned to cultivate and left the hunter-gather lifestyle. This caused explosion in both speed of learning and population. It happened about 12,000 years ago. And what was responsible for all this?
How come humans started cultivating and how come population exploded so suddenly when modern humans were living on this planet for tens of thousands of years (at least 50,000 years)?
Experts say that it was the end of ice age around that time was responsible for it.
Re: What was there in the world 10,000 years ago?
They learned to cultivate and left the hunter-gather lifestyle. This caused explosion in both speed of learning and population. It happened about 12,000 years ago. And what was responsible for all this?
How come humans started cultivating and how come population exploded so suddenly when modern humans were living on this planet for tens of thousands of years (at least 50,000 years)?
Experts say that it was the end of ice age around that time was responsible for it.
Historians believe that human learned about agriculture accidentally. Men used to go for hunt leaving women at home for taking care of children, etc. A woman left some grain on ground which after a time appeared as small plant. Thats how humans know about cultivation. First farmers in the world were women and therefore rituals in old religions show a goddess responsible for cultivation.
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Why hadn't humans learned to write until that time, even though human remains are found even older than 50,000 years?
writing started out of necessity. When humans developed skills, they realized that they need to leave messages and instructions for others to follow. Humans probably did not have any special skills in pre-10K era, so writing was not required.
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The very first writings are Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs but the origin of language remains unknown.
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I agree with what TLK has stated, but also with what muqawwee123 stated. Assuming we go by the Historians ...
First there was nomadic life - this meant the people would usually wander in smaller groups, the leaders being responsible for only a hand full of people. Then families would probably bump into one another and enquire from one another about food sources, then they would work out seasonal variations and instead of travelling haphazardly they would return to the same places and travel nomadically in cycles - similar to the migration patterns of birds. This meant they were more successful at survival and could sustain larger families.
Then they realised that food could procreate through plantation and would encourage the growth ... They also realised water was needed and developed irrigation. It was probably to onset of irrigation that enabled people to settle ... the first settlers in Mesopotamia did so probably because the region never dried up - it was naturally constantly irrigated.
The development of technologies meant complex forms of communication were needed and people were probably developing the first forms of trade at this point. With the onset of value, security and protection was needed. As the settlements grew the reign of leadership and the influence of a few over many became more and more significant ... Verbal comminucation was not enough to carry the message of instruction to the people. Memory and tutelage was also not enough - because as settlements grew their interaction with other settlements meant some of their more seasoned minds would die, or be killed ... They developed a sense of sustainability and record keeping which they did through counting and measuring quantities of foods, trade items, weapons and these developed into images of the same things rather than those things themselves ...
The formation of society and community accelerates population growth.
***My personal opinion is that Adam (AS) was taught all of these things - science, languages and written forms were part of his legacy ... and we are merely rediscovering these things ... after years of forgetting them and rediscovering them.
***Everything will perish ... The problem with history is that it is a snapshot in time ... our time ... the recorded history is only an image of what remains ... We have no idea of what extent populations had existed in the past and how intelligent they were because certain catastrophic natural events take that "reset" the history we don't see.
For example ... if a rift opened out under a village and it fell into a sea of magma all the living creatures and houses and any tools would be totally turned to magma recycled rock formations - never to tell the tale of history. It is inevitable that the further we go in the past the less information we can obtain because it has longer to be destroyed ... "history reset" ...
We know that latter writings were on papyrus those papers have on the whole vanished/disintegrated ... inks would fade so we have older writing that is more intact - i.e. stone engravings than the slightly newer writings. For sure there would be stones totally destroyed and recycled by the earth that may have had older writings on them.****
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^ psyah bhai very well explained .