Hey folks! The long awaited part 2 of my “Atlantis could be real… heck anything could be real!” series. Thanks for being so patient.

If you need to catch up, here’s Part 1. Otherwise, let’s just dive in.

3.) Civilizations come and go.

So I’ve been using this 25,000 year number. No specific reason. I’m just throwing it out there cause it’s far. We could go even further back if we wanted. But I think it’s far enough for what we’re talking about here… cause a lot can happen in 25,000 years, particularly when when it comes to ancient or even advanced civilizations.

The Mayans went from 0-60 in about 2000 years, then 600 years later, poof! They were gone. Ancient Egyptian civilization started about 5000 years ago and had a decent 3000 year run. So did the Sumarians, only they started about 7000 years ago. Indus Valley civilization, not even 2000 years of existence. Rome West 1000, Rome East 2000. In fact, it seems all great civilizations have a relatively short life when you compare them to a span of 25,000 years.

We also know that several civilizations rose independent of one another… in different isolated parts of the world… some of them, thousands of years apart. While the Sumerian people were just starting to figure out urbanization and high school proms, the dudes in the Americas were still painting pictures inside caves.

4.) There actually was a Great Flood.

18,000 years ago the world looked very different. Well, maybe not totally different… but different enough. It was the peak of the last Ice Age, and the most significant difference was that the Oceans were much shallower (by about 350 feet). A lot of the water in our current oceans was frozen up in ice sheets, just waiting to let loose. Which means there was a lot more land exposed. Here’s a map of what I’m talking about.

Now, of that exposed land, you can see the most noticeably different was in that area between mainland South East Asia and Australia; what is now Indonesia. A drastic change to a region that was probably a pretty hip homosapien hang-out. Cause that land was REALLY nice back then. Warm. Tropical grasslands. Fertile as hell. Not a bad place to do an agricultural, 2000+ year civilization experiment if you ask me.

But look around at other areas too. In the Mediterranean… or the Caribbean… or Scandinavia. In a span of about 10,000 years, certain land masses changed so drastically, that even if humans just passed through those areas, much less set up base there… they’d probably have some crazy stories. No? I mean, I still remember when I was a kid, some city worker came to our neighborhood, opened up a sealed sewer grate and literally 1,000,000 (maybe even 1,000,000,000) roaches poured out. They blanketed our nice middle class neighborhood…..

I’m sorry, was that too disgusting a story to tell?

Anyway, point being, the rise of sea levels was a bigger event than that. Although, yes, I know what you’re thinking: “John, that sewer opened in a span of a few seconds. The sea levels rose over 18,000 years”.

I know… and that’s why in part 3 I’ll be talking about some more noticeable events to go along with it.

No roaches though, I promise. So stay tuned.

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