2007-03-03 01:58:55 · 11 answers · asked by airiek l 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
No. About two thousand years ago we were exactly as we are now, except with generally less education, lower levels of health and greater levels of general ignorance of the world and life around us. The Romans were invading most of Europe, the Greeks had developed modern philosophy, the Babylonians had developed the principles of several aspects of modern maths and the Egyptians were a declining world power. We have never been monkeys, no matter how many thousands or millions of years you go back. And we are not descended from monkeys. However, if you go back far enough you will find a common ancestor. By that I mean an animal, that is now extinct, that was the ancestor to both monkeys and humans, but itself was neither monkey nor human.
2007-03-03 02:44:45 · answer #1 · answered by Alazon 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You have to go back much further than that for us to have been pre-hominids.
We were never monkeys simply because monkeys are also decendent from the same proto-primates that gave hominids. At best, monkeys and we are almost cousins (but not quite). Apes are a bit closer to us.
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2000 years ago, individuals were just as able to process thought and information as we are. What has changed is the sum of information (data) available to us, from which we can draw conclusions and move on to the next step of knowledge.
There were Greek philosopers who were basing their astronomical calculations on the fact that Earth was sperical, with a circumference of 250,000 stadions (a stadion was worth 2400 palms... so there).
Just as we still have people basing their conclusions on the "fact" that Earth is flat and at the centre of the Universe.
2000 years is too short a time on the evolutionary scale for us (it is a lot for insects and a lot more on the bacterial scale).
2007-03-03 11:16:55 · answer #2 · answered by Raymond 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We belong to the ape family, not the monkey family, and both together are called primates. Recognizable humans appeared millions of years ago, not 2000 years.
2007-03-03 10:30:00 · answer #3 · answered by J 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was way further back than 2000 years,but having said that some people still have not evolved.
2007-03-03 10:07:23 · answer #4 · answered by wheeliemad 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
2000 years ago the Roman Empire was at it's peak. what do you think?
2007-03-03 10:07:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
About 2000 years ago, we were Homo Sapiens, not monkeys. And we are Homo Sapiens, still. The ones that say we were monkeys are also Homo Sapiens.
in fact, Jesus was a Homo Sapien.
God Bless :)
2007-03-03 10:10:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
no you need to go back at least a million years to find our evolutionary relatives
2007-03-03 12:25:17 · answer #7 · answered by Go Blue 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO
Maybe 2,000,000 yrs
2007-03-03 12:47:53 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep; want a banana ?
2007-03-03 10:08:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
we were never monkeys. the theory of evolution is a bunch of crap. It's just a theory but people talk about it like it's fact.
and even according to the theory of evolution, we were humans then...
2007-03-03 10:07:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 7⤋