Continents Quote by Jared Diamond

“Different rates of development on different continents, from 11,000 B.C. to A.D. 1500, were what led to the technological and political inequalities of A.D.…

— Jared Diamond

“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of chemistry. 4.5…

— Yuval Noah Harari

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.

— Jesse Jackson

When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let's not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the cradle, the…

— Donald Johanson

“In the penultimate stages of writing this book, the date of the great exodus from Africa may have shifted more than 10,000 years earlier…

— Adam Rutherford

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

— Howard Rheingold

I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.

— Nova Peris

The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the…

— Gao Xingjian

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa,…

— Harry Johnston

“The last 10,000 to 20,000 years have witnessed a period of dramatic growth in human civilization. Indeed, our growth during this time is unique…

— Heidi Cullen

“nineteenth century economic development was "the development of continents instead of coast lines."98”

— Thomas Sowell

Well, one of the things I should tell you is that if you look at the very long sweep of history what you see…

— Paul Romer