by James Buchanan

The discovery of 3,000 year old European mummies in China raises the question of how much influence Europeans may have had on early Chinese civilization. One website reports “In the late 1980′s, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert. They had long reddish-blond hair, European features and didn’t appear to be the ancestors of modern-day Chinese people. Archaeologists now think they may have been the citizens of an ancient civilization that existed at the crossroads between China and Europe.”

Any honest historian will admit that there was a great age of discovery and innovation from 1492 until today. The source of that creativity has overwhelmingly been the White race. Even today the vast majority of Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics go to people of European ancestry.

Many of the greatest milestones of societal evolution also result from Europeans. Europeans were the first race on the planet to abolish slavery. White societies established democracies and republics to replace previous tyrannical forms of government. The “Bill of Rights” has prevented tyranny in America to the present day. The United States played a major role in creating the first Asian democracies after World War Two.

Asian nations have proven capable of adopting and duplicating European inventions and even forms of government. The nation of Japan is the most impressive. They went from a feudal society to building battleships in less than 50 years. Asian civilization dates back thousands of years, but most of this history was a long period of stagnation.

For years, historians believed that civilization came from Asia. How could Asians create the first civilization while the White race has otherwise had a virtual monopoly on creativity? Recent discoveries suggest that civilization may have been yet another White invention that was exported to Asia. One of the most impressive milestones toward civilization is the production of bronze. One website reports “the first true crafts in human history, sprang up and developed during the Chalcolithic period (5th – middle of 4th Millennium B.C.). Powerful ore-dressing centers were established around the rich and easily exploited copper deposits in the Bulgarian lands, which supplied with copper large regions of South-Eastern Europe.”

If Europeans were so advanced that they processed bronze 7,000 years ago, why isn’t civilization considered a European invention? Perhaps the best explanation is that Europe suffered a series of ice ages. A major ice age took place about 14,000 years ago, which must have devastated the population of Europe. Another calamity struck Europe 8,200 years ago when a gigantic ice dam in North America broke open and threw Europe into a mini-ice age. In order to have a civilization you need both technology and people. Europe’s population was drastically reduced by repeated ice ages. It’s entirely possible that the population of Europe did not recover until 2,500 years ago. The first locations in Europe where civilization arose during recorded history were the most southern parts of Europe and the warmest: Greece and then Rome. Could there have been earlier civilizations in Europe’s pre-history and could these civilizations have spread to Asia?

There is growing evidence that Europeans migrated to warmer parts of the world thousands of years ago. The European mummies in China are proof that European inventions and concepts were transferred to Asia. The fact that there was relatively little progress in Asia until Europeans returned 500 years ago is strong evidence that Asians are able to maintain civilization and culture, but Europeans are needed to advance civilization through creativity and invention.