It was surprising to learn...

that in chapter 2 - An Urban Revolution, it describes the transition from the Agricultural society to the Urban thriving mega-metropolis' in North, Central & South America. We are so used to reading how the Greeks designed astronomy, hydro architecture to water their fields and form a thoughtful and advanced civilization. To read that before the time of the Greeks, possibly thousands of years before Rome, the rise of the Ming dynasty that there were even more advancements happening in the Americas.

Knowing that the regions where the Aztec, Mayans, Incas and many more civilizations in the west cultivated art, music, science, the written manuscript shows the drive of every human. Evolution flourished in all parts of the world simultaneous, not in chronological order. For me, understanding history was linear in time, but I had associated it with written knowledge in our education system. It is marveling to see how diverse in the flourishment of other regions of the world were so advanced that we are still unable to determine how their systems of old were constructed, let alone support hundreds of thousands of millineals ago.

Keep in mind that before recorded history, vast cities, cultures and mega civilizations lived in an advanced state rivaling our current status of high-life. To have running water, complex tunneling systems for wealth distribution, and isolated sewage was something that did not happen in most of Europe for thousands of years later, is shocking to say the least. I re-watched one of my favorite time movies, Apocalypto to revisit this mega-metropolises to regain a taste of the ancients. It seems that our mother-earth has hidden many of her secrets which still dumbfound us today.