It's wild to think about how short human history is. For example, the iron age started approximately 1200BC, which means that if you are 32 years old you have been alive for 1% of the time humans have used iron. If you are 54 years old then you have lived through 1% of horses being domesticated, the wheel being used for transport, written language and living in towns. 🤯
@gundersen What most people also don't know is that if you went back some 2500 years, nobody would speak any language that you would understand.

@Dragonblaze @gundersen I call bullshit.

Pretty sure I can communicate in Biblical Hebrew. (They'd make hella fun of my accent, but, um, as a non-native English speaker, what else is new.)

@moshez @gundersen I could do Akkadian myself. But most people wouldn't be able to speak any ancient language.