Civilizations have exploded where people came together, thrived in their trade and industry, common goals, defence.
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Jericho, 10,000 years ago. Nomadic peoples noticed the natural grains in this valley crumbled into the hands, easily made into breads. Perhaps the first city, each having a role, baker, butcher, farmer, grain grinder, bowl craftsman, student…Sumer, and Egypt 3-4000 years ago. Civilizations growing out of the fertile plains of the Mesopotamian and Egyptian deserts, these city states began to create their own laws, codes, rules, thrived for thousands of years. Around Sumer, as the sands salted up, people left the marshes, came inland, great empires created. Babylon, recreated in recent decades, the fabled lands of Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Trades with the Orient.
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Egypt, a hierarchical and happy society for three thousands years without interuption, found their world come apart when Asian warriors on horses came out of the Arabian desert, wild Assryians with new swords, and on horses. The panicking Egyptians thought this was a new being, this mounted warrior on this unknown beast, the central Asian horse, now known to the known world.
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Science says civilization burst forward at this meeting point, the cradle became the carrier of civilization between Eqypt’s Africa, Sumer’s Asia, and Assyrian horses and new bronze age from Persia, Hindu, China and Eureasia, around the time of Christ, and as civilization continued north and west into Europe, first Greece, Macedonia, Rome, the Holy Roman Empire, the French, the Spanish, the German, the English, Dutch, Polish, Russian Empires, Mongol, Golden Hordes, all emerged, reached their natural height and power and generally collapsed, often of their own weight and inefficiencies.
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Far away from these meeting points, herders and gatherers, the farther north the hardier, less evolved societies. In the north of England, south of the Roman Emperor Hadrian’s Wall designed to keep the wild Picts and Scots at bay, the lands were open as the Roman Armies were called back in defence of Rome as Germanic tribes raged through Italy.rome was sacked in 454 AD, by then Germanic Franks poured west into Gaul and, taking on a variance of the Roman language, have ruled Gaul since, renaming it after their homeland area of Frankfort: France, and their new language would be French.
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Rome’s Britain, and fine capital Londoninium, were soon over run by Angles and Danes on the east, Saxons on the south coast, Norse Vikings in the north, the Celts fighting their legendary King Arthur’s legendary, and later King Alfred the Great’s historical fights to defend and create this new countrybecoming known as England.
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In northern England, this adapting by peoples to recreat themselves shows a certain small focal point of local civilization that began to evolve as a Norseman named Vasa and his men took over a strategic hill overlooking a fertile valley. They built a fort here. Vasa’s Fort, or Ing in Norse. Vasa’s Ing thrived, and as the fort was on the Ton, the hill, it became Vasa’s Ing Ton, a safe place to bring and sell your produce, trade, the valley thrived. Vasa’s Ing Ton thrived, merchants became known as capable and filled with abilities.
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About a thousand years after all this, actions had created a modern speaking people able to merge their Germanic languages, and then with the new Normans, names of places and peoples further evolved. And after 1608 many English, especially the young and the restless, often the brightest and the best, left for America.
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One was a family from Vasa’s old stomping grounds. They thrived in the new America: one son got in trouble with his father about cutting down a cherry tree. By then the town, and the family name had evolved from “Vasa’s Ing Ton” to “Washington”, and that son-
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George, became America’s first President.
God bless America. Derek Vasa Dashwood
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