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Atlantis: Island or World?
So considering that the end of the Ice Age heralded a rise of sea level by approximately 200 meters; what if this rise in sea level occurred in days or months or even years; rather than decades?
What if Atlantis was not an Island, but the entire world. An ancient world during the Ice Age when sea-levels were lower, when the Sahara was a vast grass land with huge rivers?
Imagine a world of trade; one common language; and though maybe not technology comprable today, certainly more than the ancient world shortly after.
A world completely drowned in a deluge with the end of the Ice Age; over-crowding leads to war and the end of civilization. People return to tribalistic savages.
Language barriers are created once more.
And trade ends as technology is a product of stable society.
Plato put the age of Atlantis' destruction at 9,000 years before his time. This is at the end of the Ice Age.
Scientists today; looking for an Island, think he must have been wrong and he meant 900 years which is the destruction of Thera.
But why is Atlantis considered an Island? Plato said it was a continent beyond the pilars of Herakles.
Perhaps when he was saying it was as large as Africa and Asia he meant it spanned across these lands.
And this entire continent was sunk; because there is no evidence of Atlantis anymore; it is beneath 200 meters of Ocean.
But around the world, we constantly find ruins in the sea...is there a coordinated effort to correlate the ages of these ruins?
Stratrf_Rus,
AboveTopSecret 3 Comments [4/14/2006 12:00:00 AM]
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