The document describes how hills and rocky areas provided advantages for grazing animals over flat plains areas. On plains, heavy rains could turn the ground to mud, trapping herds who were unable to roam freely. This led to disease and other issues. Hills allowed drainage and drying of the ground through convection currents. It's speculated that early humans discovered this and began constructing stone structures like monoliths to provide high ground for livestock, and that these may have developed into early urban centers. Hills thus offered benefits that could have supported the development of civilization.

1. The Great Epic

2. They had won the beasts, and humans
began to proliferate.
Mankind begins to take animals around.
They keep them all together and within
their territory, separate from other
mankind (on their property).

3. When it rains, it pours.
Modern drainage has allowed us to forget what rain on
the plains is like. Mud is uncomfortable. Normally cattle
range farther, and escape the mud, but while enslaved
for meat, they had no choice but to remain in one place.

4. They might try to climb a mound or hill, (on
the plains low ground might even flow), but
they would make mud and slip down as an
entire heard fights for the high point.

5. It wouldn’t take long for the herd to squish any size of dirt
mound into a mud-pit. If unable to roam, the mud-pit would
dry more slowly. The herd could be trapped in the mud for an
entire season. Even with room to roam, Various sizes of herd
could destroy the vegetation of a large area, making virtually
any space a group of humans could defend and maintain
ownership of into an eroding mess.

6. Disease runs Rampant.
Gangrene (plague), Virus’s (plague), Bacteria
(plague), attitude (plague) and other ailments all run rampant
in muddy hells, even in more modern times! It is unlikely that
people (our ancestors, who are genetically identical to us)
would ignore the problem if they became aware of a solution.
However, with modern technology, a lack of relevant
experience can make it difficult to imagine how ancient
innovations might work (plague).

7. The people of the mountains.
Near mountains and rocky hills, grazing animals are
very successful, and are able to escape the mud. The
discussion of the mountains is too long to truly
include, so please bear in mind that it is unlikely that
thousands of years of development could have come
from one fact or aspect of conditions. However, many
ideas must have come from this success. Hill and
mountain peoples are revered in every culture.

8. Hills have problems.
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Rock-slides.
Mud-slides
They cause rain, and see flash floods.
Snow-melt
They hide predators
They hide bandits
They freeze suddenly, and out of season. They
melt suddenly, and out of season.
• They are difficult to navigate with tools and
wheels.

9. Hills dry quickly.
Weather is like physics and chemistry. There
are macro- and micro-scale weather systems. At the
macro-scale, continents see pressure changes from
heating and expansion that cause wind. At the
micro-scale, things are different. Single hills and
mountains have isolated and “personal” “weather
patterns” at all times, and especially when not
overpowered by continental systems. This is also
true for plains, depressions, lakes, trees, boulders,
roads, rooftops, etc.

10. Hills dry quickly (cont.)
Heat rises. More accurately, heating causes
air to expand, and become lighter (per volume)
than cooler air. The cooler air is acted on by
gravity and pulled towards the earth more
powerfully than the lighter air (more mass
means more energy). This is another complex
area of discussion. If the air heats evenly across
a large area, the exchange of air (convection)
may not occur immediately because there is no
path of least resistance.

11. (air heats evenly across an area)
As the air below is heated by the solar warming
of the earth’s surface, it becomes lighter, and should
float on the cooler air above. Because the air heats
evenly, however, the even distribution of potential
energy causes the cooler air to “balance” on the
lighter air below, and no airflow occurs.
This would cause humid air in the plains to
remain in place, and keep the ground muddy.

12. A high point, such as the top of a hill, would create a situation that allows the warmer
air to escape. “Perhaps”: the force of gravity is less at the top of the structure, the angle
of the warming air mass causes the mass to work together (pushing up the side), the
highest point gets earlier sunlight, making it warm first, etc. (note: although in our
minds warm air rises, actually it is the opposite, and cool air merely sinks more than
warm air due to its higher density.)

13. This air-flow dries the ground.
There is a variety of discussions that can
take place on this statement. There are a variety
of benefits to the environmental effect, and a
variety of things that would develop as a result
of understanding this aspect of surface materials
in sunlight.

15. It must have been discovered that rocks on a mound would have
this effect. Rocky hills are legendary in every culture. “speculation”:
Monoliths were developed to maintain hills and provide a safe and
sanitary place to go for cattle. They may have also been urban centers, as
people aren’t much different from cattle. (Cattle are people too! Buut we
eat them.) The rock would not conduct photosynthesis, so all of the solar
energy that hits it would convert to heat, encouraging convection.
Following rainfall, a herd could be taken to the monolith, and more
livestock would survive over time. Again, this effect would also pertain to
people. Essentially, the monolith is ventilation technology, or an early
sanitation effort.

16. Golden Urban Centers.

20. Athens….