ANT210H5 Chapter 8: Reading Note-Chapter 8
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The wondrous achievements of the archaic world can be traced to the genius of this singular ancient land. The cultures of the ancient egyptians and the maya, the civilizations of china and india, the inca, the moundbuilders, and the sumerians were all derived from this source of civilization. The original civilization of which i speak, the source of all human achievement, is. Atlantis, the island continent whose people were obliterated beneath the seething waters of the atlantic more than 11,000 years ago: atlantis the fair; atlantis the beautiful; atlantis the source. West simsbury, connecticut, zip code 06092, appears to be almost the only place left on the planet that someone has not claimed is the actual location of the lost. According to plato, the lost civilization of atlantis was located on a continent-size land- mass positioned outside of the straits of gibraltar, in the atlantic ocean, and was destroyed in a natural cataclysm more than 11,000 years ago.
