I remember when I was in school and our religion teacher told us that 200 years ago there were still people that knew almost everything that was known to humanity back then. This wasn’t possible anymore.
for anyone arriving - phind has an issue where anyone can edit those links and they persist.
I'll tag whoever was claiming to be from phind up above.
I verfied this by copying the link in OP to my computer and opening it there, and it had my edits, not 1=2 edits, and assuredly not what jwpapi wanted to link.
Such confidence ratings over unavailable/lost/missing data appear like a luxury to where I'm from (science wise). Does historical analysis come with heuristic privileges over other fields in that regard?
There was certainly a time when discrete knowledge didn't collectively aggregate over generations.
But even in prehistoric times there were things like boat making, midwifery, metallurgy, sea navigating, animal husbandry, farming and seed cultivation, tool and weapon making, navigational shortcuts, the wide variety of spoken languages, medicinal knowledge, knowledge of fresh water sources and hunting techniques ...
Squaring the number to 40,000 years isn't far back enough. 200,000 years ago, for instance, people weaved grass beddings out of on insect repellant plants, wore clothes, had shoes ... Seafaring is at least 130,000 years ago.
Specialization and collaboration is a core part of being human.
However now I feel like it’s possible again.
https://www.phind.com/search/cm73yk4wc0002336u6brx4jp1
It helps greatly to learn new topics.