Spenglerian autist. Purveyor of historical Urphänomen. Lover of Antiquity; Faustian supremacist.
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I'm fascinated by history's peculiar and unconventional theories, often overlooked by mainstream academics. One such theory is 'Hyperdiffusionism,' proposing that complex societies stem from a single origin. 
I don't have an answer. But it is worth noting that there are a lot of settlements within Newfoundland that Basque whalers would use. These date more to the 16th century, but I don't see why there couldn't have been other settlements predating Columbus' voyage. 
Two weeks ago, The Hague put out an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. As a practical matter, Putin will never face trial at the ICC. But it does show the intensity of the regime's moral condemnation of the man. They want a Nuremberg-type trial for Putin and his associates. Why? 
"the Zhou were blond" 
Prior to the birth of any High Culture, Spengler postulates a murky 'pre-cultural period'. This consists of primitive folk, with tribes and their chiefs. This exists prior to the formation of any polity. For China, this begins with the Shang dynasty & the Chinese Bronze Age. 
Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859) was a German naturalist who merged Romantic philosophy with science. His main work, Cosmos, attempted to document and comprehend the natural world. Charles Darwin called Humboldt "the greatest scientific traveler who ever lived." 
For starters, I think it's a great thing to promote Spengler and his ideas. Some say that popularizing him dilutes the quality of his audience and that Spengler was never meant for the masses. But Spengler was a bestselling author in his own day.
Spengler's detractors fail to recognize how fundamentally aesthetic his entire project is. Goethean science was never meant to be a process of rigorous epistemological evaluation. Goethe sought out how to faithfully describe Nature as it appears within human experience.