Humans

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"Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings. I think you missed that." "They're doomed." "Yes. But a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. It's a privilege to be among them."

- Vision and Ultron's exchange, regarding mankind.

Humans (Homo sapiens) are the inhabitants of Earth, also known to the Nine Realms as Midgard and as Terra by those from the Nova Empire. The races of the Realms refer to Humans as Mortals, while the various alien cultures living beyond the realms use the term Terrans.

Early Visitations
Until the 21st century, extraterrestrial civilizations often thought Humans to be a primitive and backward species. When these far more advanced civilizations had visited earth in the past, early Humans marveled at their power, mistaking their advanced technology to be magic, and for the extraterrestrials themselves to be gods. Through time, accounts of these events faded into folklore and mythology. The most prominent of these accounts were Norse Mythology, which details stories of visitations from the formidable race known as the Asgardians.

Prior to when the Asgardians came, there was one extraterrestrial species that had traveled to earth many millenniums ago, when early homo sapiens were not yet the dominant species on earth; a civilization known as the Kree. When they came to earth, the Kree had the agenda of serving a war effort in a pro-longed intergalactic battle.They experimented on many groups of the homo sapiens, altering their DNA, as a means of enhancing their natural abilities to utilize the primitive species as slave-soldiers. While they conducted their experiments, the Kree built underground cities as bases for their operations.

When the Kree deemed their experiments to be a mistake, they left the earth, leaving behind their underground cities, remnants of their technology, and even one of their dead. Unprecedented to the Kree, their test subjects had gained enhanced abilities as a result of the experiments conducted on them. They passed their altered genes down to generations, expanding their numbers. And for millenniums to come, this newly emerged sub-species had concealed itself from their sister race, and became colloquially known as the "Inhumans".

Slow Beginnings
While the Inhumans hid themselves, their sister race, the Homo Sapiens, still was discovering ways to survive their time on this earth. It not was until they had begin to learn how to cook their food, that they had begun to advance more quickly. And at the center of this progression, was born the cradle of civilization itself, Mesopotamia.

It was in Mesopotamia where such things such as culture, religion and language had become a part of society's norms. From Mesopotamia, branched off many other cities and civilizations belonging to Humans. Humans were spreading across the globe at an exponential rate,becoming the most dominant species on earth.

With their cities and civilizations growing fast over thousands of years, Nations were born. Empires began to emerge, as oppressive dictatorial rule was common in nations. Class and/or racial discrimination was becoming frequent in society.

The empires flourished at an exponential rate, and two of the most prominent and most powerful were the Romans and Egyptians. It was during this time when Humans began to advanced even further into Politics, languages, and even architecture.

Worlds Closer
Near the year 2575 BC, a haphazard interdimensional anomaly known as the Convergence had occurred. Builders utilized this event to build more complex structures like Stonehenge.

A Serpent Leaves The Garden
During the Kree's time on earth, they had experimented on an inhuman named Alveus, planning to use him to lead their armies of slave-soldiers. His physical form drastically altered, Alveus became the most powerful inhuman known to existence. But instead of submitting to the Kree, Alveus led a rebellion against them. However, despite being an enigmatic figure among the inhumans, they began to fear him because of his great power. But while the inhumans fear him, the humans marveled at his power. Worshipping Alveus as a an almighty deity, his followers believed him to destined to rule the world.

It was during the year 400 BC when the inhumans exiled Alveus to a barren planet, simply because of their fears. When his worshippers learned of their idol's banishment, they became hell-bent on returned him to this planet. Forming into a cult centered around this fanaticism, the group built statueS and drew illustrations of Alveus's true form; these drawings forming into the colloquial symbol for the cult. The cult then survived for years t come, taking many forms, and many names.

Dark Days Upon Us
The Roman Empire had fallen, an event that started a chain reaction that put Humanity in an era of darkkness. Appropriately enough, this era was named the "Dark Ages". It was during this Era when the extraterrestrial race known as the Jotuns, or colloquially named the "Frost Giants" had begun a conquest on earth, starting with the town of Tønsberg, in what is currently Norway.

This brought them into conflict with the Asgardians, who easily overpowered the Jotuns. After the war, Asgardians took time on earth to form relationships with the Humans. They taught their culture and language amongst other things to the Norwegian civilizations. Their visitations went down in legend, forming the ancients myths of the Norse gods.

From the Romans, derived the British. This nation grew into prominence over the dark ages, colonializing across the world for centuries even after the dark ages, which correspondingly formed independent nations due to rebellion against their imperial rule. Most notable of these independent nations is that of North America, a current world superpower. And eventually, monarchy became infamous amongst governments, democracy grew into prominence, forming the modern free world.

World War One
Fast forward centuries further, during the early/mid 1900's when America was nearing it's zenith. Across the world, racial disharmony and morally ambiguous political conflict led to two of the worst Wars ever seen by Humanity. All nations were plagued by the impending need to engage in the conflict, risking their national security. As a means of preparing for the inevitable, all of the governments involved utilized more advanced weaponry unseen in any past military conflicts, resulting in more death and devastation. From grenades to chemical warfare, the death toll was only rising higher and higher as militaries were constantly utilizing these newest weapons.

Japan, China, Russia, Britain, Austria, and Germany are merely the most notable out of the many nations that had engaged in the world wide military conflict.

Rise Of Nazi Germany
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A Serpent Remerges
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World War Two
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Humans
For all of the known humans in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, see the category Humans.