Three Seas (Sideways Earth)

The Three Seas were teaming with life within and upon the shores in the early days of the wandering. An Ice Age, brought on by yet as unknown circumstances, caused the hunters and gatherers to migrate south into what today is called Europe.

In the beginning
Legends abound that mankind was almost destroyed in the days before the great Ice Age that covered much of the known world. Most of the legends go back to a single clan - some to even a single family. Today, though, anthropologists suggest that modern man began in the rain forests of the Sahara along the shores of what is today known as the Oceania Grande.

Evidence also indicates that a gradual migration from the northern regions of the Eastern Sea (ancient records called it the "Middle Sea") and then down between the two northern seas known today as the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. The forests of the north were teeming with life which kept the early wanderers well fed for millennia. However, as the weather changed with the Ice Age, the tribes were forced south, but not back into the Sahara. They migrated down into what is now Eastern Europe.

Settling down along the shores of the Eastern Sea, hunter-gatherers began to grow crops along the rivers of present day Turkey. From there, anthropologists claim, civilization spread in many different tribes. Hardy herdsmen herded sheep, camels, and some cattle across the great plains of the northern shore of Eastern Sea and back into the northern Sahara of Africa. It was there that the great Egyptian civilization thrived, later to be emulated by the Greeks and then the Romans as the world that we now know began to take shape.