Was Wormwood a major drug problem 5000 years ago?
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TLC? titless crew? will chilly come to you naked if you drink absynthe?\n\nthe answer yes acording to the kjv\n\nWormwood Heb. la'anah , the Artemisia absinthium of botanists. It is noted for its intense bitterness (Deu 29:18; Pro 5:4; Jer 9:15; Amo 5:7). It is a type of bitterness, affliction, remorse, punitive suffering. In Amo 6:12 this Hebrew word is rendered "hemlock" (R.V., "wormwood"). In the symbolical language of the Apocalypse (Rev 8:10, Rev 8:11) a star is represented as falling on the waters of the earth, causing the third part of the water to turn wormwood. The name by which the Greeks designated it, absinthion , means "undrinkable." The absinthe of France is distilled from a species of this plant. The "southernwood" or "old man," cultivated in cottage gardens on account of its fragrance, is another species of it.
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History books don't go back that far!\nThe disease evolved alongside humans.
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Interesting question. Check this quote:\n\n"Debate about the origins of syphilis has continued for nearly 500 years, ever since early sixteenth-century Europeans blamed each other, referring to it variously as the Venetian, Naples, or French disease. One hypothesis assumes a New World origin, and holds that sailors who accompanied Columbus and other explorers brought the disease back to Europe. Another explanation is that syphilis was always present in the Old World but was not identified as a separate disease from leprosy before about A.D. 1500. A third possibility is that syphilis developed in both hemispheres from the related diseases bejel and yaws."\n\nI got this from this site:\n\nhttp://www.archaeology.org/9701/newsbriefs/syphilis.html
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Maybe like 200,000a year.
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its been millions of years
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The history of technology is at least as old as humanity. Some primitive forms of tools have been discovered with almost every find of ancient human remains dating from the time of homo habilis). Nevertheless, other animals have been found to use tools—and to learn to use and refine tools—so it is incorrect to distinguish humans as the only tool-using or tool-making animal. The history of technology follows a progression from simple tools and simple (mostly human) energy sources to complex high-technology tools and energy sources.\n\nThe earliest technologies converted readily occurring natural resources (such as rock, wood and other vegetation, bone and other animal byproducts) into simple tools. Processes such as carving, chipping, scraping, rolling (the wheel), and sun-baking are simple means for the conversion of raw materials into usable products. Anthropologists have uncovered many early human habitations and tools made from natural resources. Birds and other animals often build elaborate nests and some simple tools out of various materials. We normally don't consider them to be performing a technological feat, primarily because such behavior is largely instinctive. There is some evidence of occasional cultural transferrence, especially among the other, nonhuman primates. Nevertheless, there is now considerable evidence of such simple technology among animals other than humans.\n\nThe use, and then mastery, of fire (circa 1,000,000 - 500,000 BC) was a turning point in the technological evolution of humankind, affording a simple energy source with many profound uses. Perhaps the first use of fire beyond providing heat was the preparation of food. This enabled a significant increase in the vegetable and animal sources of food, while greatly reducing perishability.\n\nThe use of fire extended the capability for the treatment of natural resources and allowed the use of natural resources that require heat to be useful. (The oldest projectile found is a wooden spear with fire hardened point, circa 250,000 BC.) Wood and charcoal were among the first materials used as a fuel. Wood, clay, and rock (such as limestone), were among the earliest materials shaped or treated by fire, for making artifacts such as weapons, pottery, bricks, and cement. Continuing improvements led to the furnace and bellows and provided the ability to smelt and forge native metals (naturally occurring in relatively pure form). Gold, copper, silver, and lead, were such early metals. The advantages of copper tools over stone, bone, and wooden tools were quickly apparent to early humans, and native copper was probably used from near the beginning of Neolithic times (about 8000 BCE). Native copper does not naturally occur in large amounts, but copper ores are quite common and some of them produce metal easily when burned in wood or charcoal fires.\n\nEventually, the working of metals led to the discovery of alloys such as bronze and brass (about 4000 BCE). The first uses of iron alloys such as steel dates to around 1400 BCE.\n\nMeanwhile, humans were learning to harness other forms of energy. The earliest known use of wind power is the sailboat. The earliest record of a ship under sail is shown on an Egyptian pot dating back to 3200 BCE. From prehistoric times, Egyptians probably used "the power of the Nile" annual floods to irrigate their lands, gradually learning to regulate much of it through purposely built irrigation channels and 'catch' basins. Similarly, the early peoples of Mesopotamia, the Sumerians, learned to use the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for much the same purposes. But more extensive use of wind and water (and even human) power required another invention.\n\nIt is still a mystery as to who invented the wheel and when and why it was invented. According to some archaeologists, it was probably originally invented about 8000 B.C. The wheel was almost certainly independently invented in Mesopotamia -— present-day Iraq.
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None, that was a long time ago!
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The methusla tree, a Joshua Pine in Israel is said to be more than 3000 yrs old.  They keep exactly which one it is a secret though, so it's not plundered.\n-Duo
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How did early mankind servive to perpetuate the human race to what it is today? There were no such things as pharmacies in those days. Besides, I know of many people, who are up in age, and they NEVER had anything seriously wrong with them in their entire life.
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Using it as an ingredient in an anointing oil is a little different from rolling it up and lighting it and then smoking it. I hardly think that should cause a huge outcry amonst Christians. It was put here by God and therefore had to have an obvious purpose. Native Americans used all parts of the plant for different things over the years as well. That doesn't mean I would consider them Stoners. In the context for which it was used, Simply agree and say yes that is true, however that does not mean it was ever meant to be used as a drug for getting high.
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You can by all the Chaparral you want on line.It has been used for hundreds of years by American Indians for Cancer.It's the strongest anti oxidant known to man.Back in the 60's there was a woman who died from Liver failure and when they search her house to find out what could have killed her they found a bottle of chaparral along with a whole Pharmacy next to her bed.It didn't matter that she was taking a hand full of pills at a time that her Doctor gave her.It must have been the Chaparral.The evidence was not conclusive but they had a chance to blame something other than the Pharmaceutical drugs.We all know that Nobody Ever Died from taking a Pharmaceutical drug.  RIGHT????????
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this is a nice question\n&we can resolve the ans by the diff of current life & the life before 500 yrs\nthe biological changes wold be\n1 lose of appendix &nicetin membrane\n2 lose of the smallest fingures of legs\n\n\ntecnology will be much more advance\nwe might not go to office &schools
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...worlds oldest profession
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It is estimated to be 1300 years old. Please read on;\n\nhttp://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/earle/pi/pin/hel.htm
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A long long time ago.
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to smoke it regularly no, it was a herb that god put on this earth to be used for medicine. but we humans have abused it!
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About 2,000 years i think