Europe and Africa began to rise out of the Pacific depths. [1] 360,000,000 years ago Western Europe and the British Isles were emerging, except parts of Wales, which were deeply submerged. [2]
350,000,000 years ago in Europe no great changes are marked because the land fluctuations were less, while the volcanic action was more persistent. 340,000,000 years ago large portions of the American continents and Europe began to emerge from the water. 320,000,000 years ago a new inundation occurred in Europe. [3] A great volcanic activity of this age was in the European sector. Violent earthquakes took place in northern Europe, notably in Scotland. [4]
Five million years later the land areas Europe were briefly inundated. 260,000,000 years ago extensive coral reefs were created in northern Europe. Later an uplift formed a stratum of Devonian red sandstone in Europe. very much of western Europe, including the British Isles, was submerged. In Wales, Germany, and other places in Europe the Devonian rocks are 20,000 feet thick. As the land rose, North America became connected with Europe by land bridges extending to Greenland. 240,000,000 years ago the land over parts of both Europe and North and South America began to sink. [5]
210,000,000 years ago the warm-water arctic seas covered most of North America and Europe. Carboniferous age deposits also occurred in Europe. In some parts of North America and Europe the coal-bearing strata are 18,000 feet in thickness. This epoch witnessed the beginning of the Vosges, Black Forest, and Ural mountains. Stumps of other and older mountains are to be found all over Great Britain and Europe. 180,000,000 years ago brought the close of the Carboniferous period in Europe. [6] Africa once connected Europe to South America. [7] It was soon after the arrival of these prereptilian frogs that North America was temporarily isolated, cut off from Europe, Asia, and South America. [8]
150,000,000 years ago the northern half of South America, most of Europe, and all of Asia are well above water. There was more shallow water around Europe and Asia. [9] There are big dinosaurs buried in western Europe. [10] 120,000,000 years ago the polar sea expanded. The invasion of the waters was more important in Europe. [11]
100,000,000 years ago the North American continent and a part of Europe were well above water. 95,000,000 years ago the American and European land masses again began to sink. Great volcanic actions occurred south of the Alps. 90,000,000 years ago, angiosperms spread throughout Europe. Large deposits of chalk were produced. 65,000,000 years ago there occurred one of the greatest lava flows of all time and affected Europe. Most of Europe was under water. [12] The oldest mountains of the world are located in Asia, Greenland, and northern Europe. [13] 40,000,000 years ago most of Europe was submerged at the end of this time and large amounts of foraminiferous limestone were deposited. [14] Greenland connected Europe to North America. [15] 15,000,000 years ago the mountain regions of Eurasia were rising, and there was some volcanic activity throughout these regions. [16]
10,000,000 years ago began an age of widespread local land deposits. Much of Europe, at this time, was still under water, including parts of England, Belgium, and France. [17]
By the close of the Pliocene the lands of the north-eastern part of North America and of northern Europe were highly elevatedThroughout the glacial period, landslides occurred in Europe. In Europe the ice at various times covered the British Isles excepting the coast of southern England, and it overspread western Europe down to France. In Europe the fifth invasion of the ice was not so extensive as the preceding one. [18]
The Neanderthalers gradually spread in Europe. 800,000 years ago game was abundant; many species of deer, as well as elephants and hippopotamuses, roamed over Europe. 750,000 years ago the fourth ice sheet was well on its way south. Neanderthalers retreated before the advancing ice. [19]
700,000 years ago the fourth glacier, the greatest of all in Europe, was in recession; men and animals were returning north. The climate was cool and moist, and primitive man again thrived in Europe and western Asia. Mammalian life again rapidly spread out over all Europe.600,000 years ago the ice had receded its maximum and the men and animals of Europe changed very little. [20]
During the interglacial epochs primitives passed westward around the Mediterranean and soon overran the continent of Europe. In the caves of western Europe may be found human bones mingled with the remains of both tropic and arctic animals. [21] Red race left imprint, although few, in Europe. [22] The blue race invaded Europe and there they expelled the Neanderthal Andonites they found. [23] Blue race was most adventurous of colored races in Europe. [24]
Adamites and Andites entered Europe in their migrations. The first Adamic migrations in Europe ended in 15,000 BC. The last three Andite waves occurred between 8,000 and 6,000 BC. and most of it entered Europe. [25]
Europe received more Andite inheritance than rest of world. By 12,000 B.C. three quarters of the Andite stock of the world was resident in northern and eastern Europe. [26]
As the period of the early Adamic migrations ended, about 15,000 B.C., there were already more descendants of Adam in Europe and central Asia than anywhere else in the world, even than in Mesopotamia. In southern Europe there was a mixed race of Andonites and Sangiks with some Adamite. [27] By 5,000 B.C. the three purest strains of Adam’s descendants were in Sumeria, northern Europe, and Greece. [28] Drought drove Andonites to overrun Europe by 2,500 B.C. provoking the most serious and lasting of all cultural setbacks up to that time. [29]
The early teachers of the Salem religion penetrated to the remotest tribes of Africa and Eurasia, ever preaching Machiventa’s gospel of man’s faith and trust in the one universal God as the only price of obtaining divine favor. [30] Nothing like the civilization of the times of Jesus has been seen in the Occident before or since those days. [31]
When the Jewish religion of good works and slavery to law fell victim to the stagnation of traditionalistic inertia, the motion of religious evolution passed westward to the European peoples. [32] The feudalism of the European Middle Ages was a dark age in which the territorial state collapsed. [33] Up to the time of the Urantia revelations the nations of Europe have always been at war. [34]