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6,000 Years of Recorded Human History
Richard Overy, editor of The Times Complete History of the
World, stated in “The 50 Key Dates of World History” (Oct. 19, 2007):
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No date appears before the start of human
civilizations about 5,500 years ago and the
beginning of a written or pictorial history.
Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the American Youth
Congress in Washington, DC, February 10, 1940:
I knew that some day Russia would return
to religion for the simple reason that four or five
thousand years of recorded history have
proven that mankind has always believed in God
in spite of many abortive attempts to exile God.
In his address, “Prince of Peace,” printed in the New York Times,
September 7, 1913, U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan wrote:
The miraculous birth of Christ is not more
mysterious than any other conception-it is simply
unlike it...Science has not yet revealed to us the
secret of life...6,000 years of recorded history
and yet we know no more about the secret of life
than they knew in the beginning.
During the past 6,000 years, empires have risen and
empires have fallen, empires have risen and empires have fallen,
in a recurring cycle. Pulitzer Prize winning historians Will and
Ariel Durant wrote an 11-volume work, The Story of Civilization
(published 1935-1975), in which they examined the rise,
flourishing and fall of major world civilizations.
More than 20 years after his death, Will Durant’s quote
appeared in an opening graphic of Mel Gibson’s 2006 film Apocalypto:
A great civilization is not conquered from
without until it has destroyed itself from within.
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