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latitudes, from what is now Morocco to Mongolia. This transition was an eventual result of
climatic changes after the retreat of the last glacial sheet and the weakening of rains of the
pluvial 46 period.
Seven or eight thousand years ago, first strong states based on agriculture and first
great cities emerged. Man obtained the possibility to reproduce himself with intervals
smaller than earlier. The city civilization of the Celtic and Berberian states and of their
predecessors (Egypt, Crete, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, North India, China) arose. Here we
also enter the ages for which legends have been conserved and come to us, and for which
there are innumerable material monuments discovered by archeological excavations. Their
importance and effectiveness have continuously and rapidly increased during the past three
centuries.
One may think that during past 5 to 7 thousand years, a continuous and ever
accelerating creation of the nposphere has been happening, and the cultural biogeochemical
energy of the mankind has been growing firmly, mainly without any backward movement,
but with stops the duration of which ever decreased. The conscience is growing that this
increase of cultural energy has no irresistible limits, and that here we deal with a
spontaneous geological phenomenon.
116. Here, it is appropriate to present some facts. The beginning of the Egyptian
calendar based upon the many years’ observations on the Dog Star and having become the
foundation of all the Old World chronology (down to our days, when it happened to be
spread all over the noosphere) may be dated 4236 B.C. or somewhat earlier. 47 Even before
that, 4 to 5 thousand years B.C., a city culture existed in India, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor,
with such everyday life technology about which even few years ago we could not suspect
yet. This technology was spread over the population numbered perhaps by millions. To the
end of
46 N. Nelson gave recently a concise review of this problem at the world scale. See: N. Nelson. Prehistoric
Archeology: Past, Present, and Future. Science, 1937, vol. 85, no. 2195, p. 87.
47 One may only choose between this figure 4236, and another one: 2776 B.C. All the facts now known to us
(taking into consideration the course of the growth of historical and archeological studies) indicate that only the
first figure is true. See: N. Idel’son. The History of Calendar. L., 1925. (In Russian).
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