in 3000 BC, the sumerians had reached, and exceeded the climax of their civilization, and were on a sharp decline.
the ppl on the island of britain were building the stonehenge
those guys in americas were founding great cities.
the egyptians were building pyramids.
homers' tales were going to be written soon.
and the indus river civ was just putting up its first hamlets.
want to know more???
you are so self absorbed in praising he indian culture, that you dont even see that even greater civilizations existed before that time.
Building stonehenge, pyramids, great cities is a different thing, and asking the questions like those mentioned in Prashopnishada is another. Every big civilization in this world built cities, fought wars, conquered each other. But no one from Aryavart (Bharat / India) came outside to conquer anyone. India is known not for it's worldly achievements, but for the centuries of wisdom it has, which despite being attacked for thousands of years, still remains, and flourishing.
Swami Vivekananda puts it in very beautiful lines -
“Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live...”
"Let foreigners come and flood the land with their armies, never mind. Up, India , and conquer the world with your spirituality!"(Complete Works, Vol. 3, p. 284).
You cannot imagine the interest the world is showing in India and Indian things. Especially in developing nations like Brazil ,the desire to learn Indian religion, yoga, dance, music, cuisine, and so on is terrible. You can safely say that there are at least 500 yoga schools in Brazil alone. Then there is a mad rush for yoga in the United States , United Kingdom , and so on. But in India ? We hate ourselves. We decry our History. We hate our Science and Technology and want to imitate Americans and British.
"Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?"
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
And after all it was not about how old who is. As always, deviating from the topic has been the agenda in this debate. You took just one point from the post which you could answer. My point was that no one that time thought as deeply as Vedic Rishis, about Universe, Consciousness, and had such tremendous wisdom. We had the biggest universities in the world, Nalanda and Takshila, which were burning for almost a year after being destroyed by barbaric Islamists.
Topics like Astronomy, Metaphysics, Theology and Law, Medical Science, Astrophysics, Surgery had been taught in India even before the coming of Britishers (Souce: Prof. Dharampal's Lifetime Research).
Beautiful Tree - Indigenous Indian Education in Eighteenth Century
But perhaps, you closed mind will not allow you to accept anything beyond your beliefs. You will always try to prove everything false, because of the brainwashing about Indian Technology and Science you all have been going through since long.
