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One of the most fascinating and interesting subjects that has been under scrutiny by man is his quest about the origin and the birth of civilization New discoveries from the remains of fossilized bones excavated from the earth at various places throw more light on the subject and makes it more interesting.

The latest line of thinking in regard to human origin zeroes down to two major theories:

• According to one theory, different types of humanoid developed in parallel across the different parts of the universe, and

• The second theory believes that mankind originally developed several million years ago in what we call at present as Africa, and from there man moved across to other regions in the world – especially – first to Asia, then to Australia, followed by Europe and finally the Americas.

We have arrived at some broad consensus with regard to the human origin and birth of civilization. They are:

• Over a considerable period of time, the species belonging to the Homo erectus group were replaced by the Homo sapiens, the group in which humans are categorized.

• The emergence of Homo sapiens occurred sometime between 130,000 years to 200,000 years from now – the period when the human origin took place in the universe.

• One of the earliest generations of Homo sapiens was found to have developed in Africa. Most of the early Homo sapiens lived in caves and were mostly hunter-gatherers

• These hunter-gatherers moved out of the African region in pursuit of hunting and, breaking the Sub-Saharan barrier, moved into other regions which we now categorize under Asia, Australia, and Europe. These hunter-gatherers also successfully crossed the land bridge and entered into the Americas.

• The hunter-gatherers were responsible for developing the cave societies with Neolithic mankind.

• The Neolithic mankind, in pursuit of green pastures, found the river valleys engulfing the major rivers such as the Nile, Tigris, Indus, Euphrates, and Huang Ho and created the first civilizations of human kind in these river valleys.

• The Danube River is the link for the hunter-gatherer into what we now call as Europe and from Europe these hunter-gatherers eventually crossed the Atlantic to the Americas.

Human civilization developed along these river valleys and it is these civilizations that led to major breakthroughs in how the man shaped his life in the world. It is these early civilizations that paved way for the man to understand the nature and also take control over the nature. He learnt and mastered the art of domestication of animals, found ways and means for food in the form of agriculture and also discovered the early techniques of irrigation.

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All of this started in the age of exploration, this term wasn’t around until that time. The objective of this was to stop the spread of diseases, at that time navigation was very popular to explore new lands, transport people in to the new world etc… The crew and the cargo were forced to be quarantined for 40 days, to avoid the introduction of new disease or bringing back diseases. The 40 day comes from the origin of the word, which in french Quarante means 40, it is also used in the Bible.

The word quarantine might also be associated to the Italian word quarantena, which also means a 40 day period. It is also mentioned in the 13 chapter of the new testament of the Bible.

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I suppose everyone has heard this one, many non Canadians call the inhabitants of the second biggest country “canucks”.  Fellow Americans called them often by that name, it is all for fun these days but before it had a more deep meaning.

The word first came to be in 1835 as a derogatory American reference towards the  French Canadians, whom were crossing the border because of the better work conditions etc.. This was specially the case in Maine, where the French Canadians of the Province of Quebec worked in the lumber mills. Today though, it is not an insult but rather a joke or farce towards our French friends. Some think it is a combination of the word canoeman, which in French is canaque. Or maybe it’s related to the word Canada/Kanata which the Indians said with a suffix of uk.

Over a million of the French Canadians crossed the lands and settled in New England, because of the better salary and more work.

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