<span>The current thinking is around 200,000 years ago, but I would argue against this by saying that humans had not yet developed the same mental capacity that we have today, as some cognitive ability would have been needed in making art, which of course seems to have appeared around 70,000 years ago in its geometric form, where as the figurative animal paintings and carvings came to be around 40-35 thousand years ago. So, humans were physically definitely modern around 200ka, but mentally, this is unlikely. It is of course possible to argue that behavioural changes need not to be dictated by physiological or cognitive changes. Art could just be an invention</span>
The Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers influenced them through the idea of democracy and people governing through parliaments and assemblies, while the European Philosophers influenced them through the ideas of Social Contract and human rights and things like that. This was mostly from Locke and Hobbes.
In the years leading up to the Civil War, the South continued to fall behind the North in all of the following except "military leadership," since the South contained some of the greatest generals of all time, such as Robert E. Lee.
Mexico and america were cool with each other in general
