We are used to thinking that civilization is now at the highest point of its development. Perhaps this is true. But let's not forget that we actually know very little about the civilizations of the past. Yes, they didn't have electricity, electronics, or bitcoin, but they had the technology to meet their needs at the time.
Using the example of the exhibits of the local history museum, I will try to show that the civilizations of the past were also developed.
This is medieval chess. They are no different from modern ones, except for the quality of manufacture. Is it handmade. They served their owner well and have survived almost intact to this day.
This is a cannon. It cannot be compared with modern artillery in terms of range or lethality, but at the time it was the most formidable weapon. A civilization that knew how to make such weapons had a significant advantage over others. It was considered very highly developed.
Tools for spinning and weaving made it possible to solve a fantastically difficult problem at that time. The tools themselves are also difficult to make, but it was even more difficult to invent them.
Of course, we now have much more complex tools, mechanisms and devices. But do we know everything from the past civilization? If in the Middle Ages there were quite complex tools, then perhaps in more advanced stages of civilization there were things that we do not know about. For example, if a civilization possessed a method of recording information on a medium that cannot be found during archaeological excavations. Suppose it is ultra-thin and cannot be stored for hundreds of years in the ground. Or we could not recognize that this thing is a carrier of information. Is it possible that once in ancient times there was a civilization that was more developed than the modern one?
