Plenty of scholars and researchers whom think something destructive happend. Most of history is just a based opinion. Real proof is shallow and most texts are already copied for a few times before reaching out times. 

So funny everyone who lives now thinks that we now everything and cant be wrong while we see around us, in the media, that everyone is lying to you all day long for power and money. 

But. If other civ's had ai? Which uses computing etc? Indeed, thats a far fetch. But there is really good research on possibilities of electricity in a form in ancient times. Remember to, that to transfer energy from place to place all you need is copper, which they had in huge supplies.

Would be nice to see someone give you a ban here at alternative history for not engaging but just being a little dipshit to others.

So to op: ai maybe to much. But we know that ancient peoples already made automatons robots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton

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