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In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?

 
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In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
I mean, just look at it. Were the few million people on earth so much cleverer in those days? I think not. It was centuries ago for God's sake. So who built this palace and all the other architectural structures around the world?

There are about 300 million people in American now. How are there no great palaces in the USA comparable to this? Are 300 million modern people not as great at producing architectural masterpieces as 500 million global people were in 1600?

There are now 7 or so billion people in the world and yet we have no new buildings that can compare to something like this.

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Tartaria thread?

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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
Here are the figures for global population

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When people are serfs ruled by an absolute king and money is no problem, you get buildings like this.
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We're about 300 million times more lazy & ignorant than the people were centuries ago. We're no longer critical thinkers & everything is handed to us and if it's not, we simply claim to be "offended" by each other or persecuted by TPTB. We're essentially nothing more than well dressed infants walking around in 20-30-40yr old bodies.
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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
When people are serfs ruled by an absolute king and money is no problem, you get buildings like this.
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How many serfs does it take to build something like this? France had a population of 20 million people. That includes, pensioners, children and women. I assume it wasnt any of those who built this palace. That would leave maybe a few million men free to build the palace. I doubt they could have had so many qualified builders around.

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And for example, there are so many self proclaimed billionaires now who dont have to worry about money.
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We're about 300 million times more lazy & ignorant than the people were centuries ago. We're no longer critical thinkers & everything is handed to us and if it's not, we simply claim to be "offended" by each other or persecuted by TPTB. We're essentially nothing more than well dressed infants walking around in 20-30-40yr old bodies.
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You say there are no critical thinkers but what about all the new technology we have. And yet we cannot make anything comparable to the Palace of Versailles.
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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
More wealth concentrated to fewer people at those times. Apart from that, in modern days only a fool would spend hundreds of millions of dollars only for decorating a palace (who needs more space than it is actually needed or who would decorate so heavily a place and make it a nightmare to preserve and keep it clean). An actual billionaire of today wouldn't have that much power to afford a palace like that, even if he created the biggest companies in the world. After all, the figures of a company's wealth and its creator personal wealth are two different things.
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In the old days you learned the trade 10-15 years training
You make a mistake and you got a good flogging

Move on 1,000 of years

You learned the trade in 3 days
Most if not all is designed by computers and built by robots
You make a mistake and you shout out your racist

And the boss gets a good flogging

Move on 3 months

Mankind starts learning the old trades long forgotten
And gets a good flogging

Unless the Robots take over

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We're about 300 million times more lazy & ignorant than the people were centuries ago. We're no longer critical thinkers & everything is handed to us and if it's not, we simply claim to be "offended" by each other or persecuted by TPTB. We're essentially nothing more than well dressed infants walking around in 20-30-40yr old bodies.
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You say there are no critical thinkers but what about all the new technology we have. And yet we cannot make anything comparable to the Palace of Versailles.
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There's no "new" technology out there. It's "rediscovered" technology. Nothing new under the sun... But I get your point. You'd think with all of our so-called technological innovations we'd have some grand cathedral on the moon or something like that & yet 3/4's of the earth's population goes to bed hungry every night.

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Maybe aliens helped in the construction just like they did with the pyramids and the Eiffel Tower.
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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
Versailles was a hunting lodge in what was then the boondocks.

It was expanded slowly.

France was really into the royalty thing and built palaces everywhere.
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We're about 300 million times more lazy & ignorant than the people were centuries ago. We're no longer critical thinkers & everything is handed to us and if it's not, we simply claim to be "offended" by each other or persecuted by TPTB. We're essentially nothing more than well dressed infants walking around in 20-30-40yr old bodies.
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You say there are no critical thinkers but what about all the new technology we have. And yet we cannot make anything comparable to the Palace of Versailles.
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There's no "new" technology out there. It's "rediscovered" technology. Nothing new under the sun... But I get your point. You'd think with all of our so-called technological innovations we'd have some grand cathedral on the moon or something like that & yet 3/4's of the earth's population goes to bed hungry every night.
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I'm thinking the Great Wall of China is BC. Look at the world' population BC, it's about 100 to 150 million people in the whole world around that time. How many people were involved in building the wall? It's so great you can literally see it from outer space.

And then compare the wall to Trump's great wall. It hardly compares.

The history of the Great Wall of China began when fortifications built by various states during the Spring and Autumn (771–476 BC) and Warring States periods (475–221 BC) were connected by the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, to protect his newly founded Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) against incursions by nomads from ...

History of the Great Wall of China - Wikipedia
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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
Versailles was a hunting lodge in what was then the boondocks.

It was expanded slowly.

France was really into the royalty thing and built palaces everywhere.
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The French didnt stop with Versailles. They also made the Statue of Liberty.

The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York, in the United States. Wikipedia
Address: New York, NY 10004, USA
Height: 93 m
Construction started: September 1875


So what made them stop?

Not to mention Notre Dame

The cathedral's construction was begun in 1160 under Bishop Maurice de Sully and was largely complete by 1260


We're talking medieval period.
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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
Maybe aliens helped in the construction just like they did with the pyramids and the Eiffel Tower.
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I forgot about the Eiffel tower:

Constructed from 1887 to 1889. Now that's comparatively new. If they could do this in 19th century, why have they suddenly forgotton how to make things like that?
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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
Vatican

In 1447, Pope Nicholas V razed the ancient fortified palace of Eugene III to erect a new building, the current Apostolic Palace.

world population was around 350 million people. Italy's a tiny place. We go there to see the ruins which noone seems to know how to repair. Or recreate.
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Men.

Pussies died at childbirth.
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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
In the era before large scale mechanization and industrialization, people had many more creative skills that could be harnessed in producing such edifices. There was also much more in the way of raw materials and capital that was not tied up in various extortion usury schemes.

Still, the French crown basically destroyed itself with such luxurious building projects as it drove most of the country to poverty to pay for them, creating great hostility that would eventually mean downfall.

In the centuries that followed the period you reference, mass production and industrialization held great promise in extending the creativity into much wider spheres of influence. Problem became the industrialization of the manufacture of war machines and implements that fueled intense arms races among competing kingdom until the entire western world was eaten up with war, war production, and colonial expansion to prop up the needs of the various war based economies. Creativity became progressively a neglected concern with only a few bubbles of development escaping being consumed in the froth of empire building and regional conflicts.
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When people are serfs ruled by an absolute king and money is no problem, you get buildings like this.
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Yep. And money bought more.
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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
This thread is worthy of serious inquiry and discussion...

Who made the millions of bricks in all the brick structures in the united states??

Architecture is much older than we are taught... many pre-flood buildings still stand, and have been repurposed, imo
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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
Some people ask some funny questions...
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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
We're about 300 million times more lazy & ignorant than the people were centuries ago. We're no longer critical thinkers & everything is handed to us and if it's not, we simply claim to be "offended" by each other or persecuted by TPTB. We're essentially nothing more than well dressed infants walking around in 20-30-40yr old bodies.
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I literally sit at my computer all day for a job. As do many others.

We are way lazier. Look at their architecture and then look at ours. Soulless glass bullshit.
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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
We're about 300 million times more lazy & ignorant than the people were centuries ago. We're no longer critical thinkers & everything is handed to us and if it's not, we simply claim to be "offended" by each other or persecuted by TPTB. We're essentially nothing more than well dressed infants walking around in 20-30-40yr old bodies.
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You say there are no critical thinkers but what about all the new technology we have. And yet we cannot make anything comparable to the Palace of Versailles.
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There's no "new" technology out there. It's "rediscovered" technology. Nothing new under the sun... But I get your point. You'd think with all of our so-called technological innovations we'd have some grand cathedral on the moon or something like that & yet 3/4's of the earth's population goes to bed hungry every night.
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That's not true. Only 1 in 4 sub saharan africans go to bed hungry.

...and the rest of the world does better than they do. But they only have hunger because they have an average 6 to 8 children a peice. If they cant see the conection and stop making so mamy babies then they deserve to die.
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Re: In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille?
it should be completely obvious that the cities of the world are far older than the official narrative.
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36000 workers, it took 56 years to build, thousands workers died building it.





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