Peace is one of the principal benefits of empire. The squabbles, petty wars and sporadic slaughters of rival tribes and peoples are suppressed under the rule of a central power. And this has a profound effect on the social evolution of subject peoples: tribes whose way of life had been based on permanent warfare with their neighbours, regular raids for capturing slaves or for headhunting, were now freed from the fear of attack but also deprived of a form of cultural expression. They had to adapt to a new world of civilised life and harmonious coexistence with their neighbours.

This was the greatest blessing of living in the Roman Empire, especially perhaps in the first three centuries of the Christian Era, after the period of civil war that marked the end of the Republic and before the barbarian invasions of the fourth and fifth centuries AD.



Much the same can be said for the British Empire in general and for the British establishment of the Australian colonies in particular even as some are more reluctant to be civilised than others.

When you're i. Europe and reflect on all the marvelous achievements of our Aboriginals


roll a 3 sided die

Frank wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2026 at 10:12am:


Yes.  And?

Ignoring the incredible human cost of establishing the Pax Mongolica in the 13/14th centuries?

And in the age of MAD, you think the US 'empire' can demolish the Chinese 'empire', to create a Pax Americana?

Is Freemasonry a stone age institution?

I know I've installed many a stone slab for kitchens & bathrooms in my younger days.
"Ug"

I don't think aborigines were stone age.
More like the much earlier wood, stick and leaves Age.

Well, to be serious. I believe that Australian Aborigines are a far flung remnant of possibly a very large people's that populated much of the planet. But not as old as the San Bushman who just headed towards southern Africa, but they spawned the much younger 3 types of classic Caucasoid (wavy hair filament), Mongoloid (straight hair filament) & Negroid (curly hair filament).
Though it seems the Mongoloid & Negroid were more isolated.
Papua's Melanesians are more Negroid (& Denisovan), much like the Tasmanian aborigines were. But the later Murrayans & recent (12,000 yrs ago) Carpentarians are more Caucasoid. So to the Ainu of Japan.
White European Caucasoid likely came from this older group.

As for Gobleki Tepe?
Well here's the cruncher.
There are 32 abstract symbols that appear consistently all around the world in discovered Cave Art. 12 of these symbols are consistently exact.
So basically, long ago and for over 100,000 years - it seems there was one unifying culture of Sapiens painting the same symbols from Sahul, to Southern Africa, Asia, Europe & Asia along with Middle-East.
So I believe that yes, Gobleki Tepe could have been created by the descendants who followed the same Symbolism that their Ancestors used, but Australian Aborigines didn't create Gobleki directly. They're just a remnant of that first global culture that developed in a world still occupied by Neanderthal. Denisovan , Ophiran (San) and even Homo Erectus )which existed for over 2 million years all over the world except Oceania & the America's.
I bet Erectus, even made it to Australia. They were exceptional tool makers and rafting wouldn't have been beyond them with remains found in Indonesia.

So Aborigine 'ancestors', let alone everyone else's- made Gobleki.

...I mean, what else was there to do in such an empty boring place?

They really don't know. The best in the field have speculated that these abstract symbols (even found in N.America) could be many things - possibly early written language to just visual Art descriptions of communication. But what stands out is their consistency in likeness across the globe and over such a very long time frame of our prehistory.

Most people miss these symbolisms and see only pictures of hand prints, animals, human stick figures hunting etc.
I'm quite new to it myself. Having caught my fascination only early this year.

Chinese  I Ching set consist of 64 hexagrams,which is 32 pairs but it is based on binary symbols.
Today, this ancient base-2 progression forms the foundational logic of all modern computer.