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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

something from nature, man created new tools, such as hoes, spades and later
ploughs. When man learned to mine and work metals, the task became quicker and
easier. Someone decided to try to use domestic animals as draft-cattle — cows, bulls
and later horses when ploughing. Another step to make life easier — man spent less
time on ploughing up his plot of land and got the possibility of increasing the size of
cultivated fields and vegetable gardens. The yield of crops began to increase; the best
seed was selected for sowing the next year which resulted in the appearance of more
productive varieties. Thus, the intentional selection appeared.

A “good” laziness and an instinct for self-preservation were the driving force
for all this. “Good” laziness I understand to be the desire of a person to facilitate the
labour and increase his chances to live till the next spring, creating new tools, unlike
“bad” laziness, when man doomed himself to starvation. So, there is laziness and la-
ziness. Not everyone tried to invent something new; not everyone who tried got
something worthwhile. But sooner or later, a person who was able to see the world
from another angle and understand what another could not see and understand was
born. And new tools appeared and discoveries were made which changed life both for
this person and all the rest.

Someone used the pieces of bog ore to make the fire (bog iron contained from
20 to 60% of iron). These pieces were often the only stone which man could find in
the forest, especially near numerous bogs in the areas with excess moisture. Man de-
duced that he could save the meat from burning if he put a small twig with beaded
meat on two such stones — he had only to turn the small twig with meat and the meat
and his hands would not be burnt. Thus, the pieces of bog ore which contained a lot
of iron were in direct contact with charcoal and fire. I would like to remind that char-
coal appears at wood combustion and is able to take away oxygen from iron oxide,
thus, liberating pure iron. Using the pieces of bog ore as a prop, man accidentally
smelted iron when preparing supper or dinner. Most likely this happened thousands,
maybe millions, of times until the morning someone paid attention to the very hard
and sharp excrescences on the stone which were not there before. Maybe these metal
excrescences on the piece of ore cut him badly and ... made him reflect on this phe-
nomenon. And the result of this reflection was the appearance of iron in people’s eve-
ryday life. Tools and weapons made of iron were simply incomparable to those made
of burnt wood or bone. Thanks to the communal way of life, this kind of discovery,
casual or not so casual, quickly became the property of a family or a tribe. And the
good created by one or several people became universal property.

Gradually the life of people became less dependent on the whims of nature. And
the reason for this kind of change is … man’s survival in the conditions of the
Temperate Zone. Due to the long and cold Russian winter, the white race which de-
veloped the Temperate Zone after the catastrophe 13 016 years ago (2007) was able
to revive the civilization on Midgard-earth again. Certainly, the level of development
of modern civilization is much lower than the level of development of that which ex-
isted before the catastrophe, but, nevertheless, even being isolated from everyone and
everything, the civilization of Midgard-earth was able to get out from the Stone Age
to which it was brought down by the catastrophe.

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