Through our senses we find out about the world. Full real life proceeds with all that we do skilfully to advance our interests. Palaeolithic rock art enables the hunter to practise shooting arrows on target. We can comprehend early Southeast Asian cultures as responses to living high near the Himalayas along rivers flowing towards the Pacific Ocean.
Early cultures of South China Sea navigate from coasts to Austronesian islands
Human development continues in Africa with evidence from North African rock paintings of life with animals in a green Sahara before 10,000 BCE. Free Berber, Tuareg and Bedouin nomads motivate extensive material exchanges between cultures of the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Brightly painted ancient Egyptian temple columns bring into being and represent enduring realities of life. From deep in the heart of Africa comes the power and strength to initiate steady civilisation through Minoan, Persian, Hellenic and Roman assaults providing favourable human qualities for the Mediterranean world.
Life of the senses and material well being
Celtic, Germanic and Nordic peoples of Atlantic Arctic North Sea atmospheres actively protect their lives and make firm the steady intercourse of early European towns. Clovis and Charlemagne of the Franks provide an impetus for unification and on this stability Lyon, Dresden, Ghent and Rotterdam are built. The progress of centuries comes together in the market places and civic ceremonies of the Low Countries. Advancing into an era of worldwide growth people are tough enough to learn new skills and come through the Industrial Revolution.
Endurance into an era of material prosperity
Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and London with foundations of vigorous acquisition now enjoy human life arts deepening to reality. Romantic impressionist Turner and Monet collide into the severe Tonalist Whistler representing 20th century struggle through confusion to definition. Realities of living make liberation movements essential fare. To attain immediate physical function a new century ventures ever closer to essential intensities of living.
Life in the 21st century