Well, we know from 'The Ark of Truth' that the Alterans(what the Ancients called themselves at the time) are from the same planet as the Ori. They lived in an isolated mountain town, keeping their true level of technolagy a secret. Instead of fighting, or even using the ark, they decided to take off in their intergalactic ship and find a new home. I suspect the early history of humanity on their planet would have been similar to ours.
The way I see it there are two basic possibilities of how the Alterans would have got to that mountain:
a) The Alteran were an ethnic group similar to the French or English. So, at one point they were a collection of tribes who eventually formed a nation state. Over time they lost territory to the Ori and developed their non-violant secular liberal ideology. The majority of their population would have either been wiped out or converted to Orgin, with the survivors falling back to their isolated mountain town.
b) The Alteran were originally a collection of verious individuals from all over the planet who fled persercution from the Ori. Think of Orgin as a religion similar to the Christanity/Islam of the middle ages except they actually conquered the world. So, verious scientists, liberals, etc who already had a non-violant secular ideology and rejected Orgin sought refuge at the isolated mountain town.
I personally think b fits better with what we know of the Ancients since it would explain why they were so idealistic. The Alteran, as a people, never had to actually defend territory.
The way I see it there are two basic possibilities of how the Alterans would have got to that mountain:
a) The Alteran were an ethnic group similar to the French or English. So, at one point they were a collection of tribes who eventually formed a nation state. Over time they lost territory to the Ori and developed their non-violant secular liberal ideology. The majority of their population would have either been wiped out or converted to Orgin, with the survivors falling back to their isolated mountain town.
b) The Alteran were originally a collection of verious individuals from all over the planet who fled persercution from the Ori. Think of Orgin as a religion similar to the Christanity/Islam of the middle ages except they actually conquered the world. So, verious scientists, liberals, etc who already had a non-violant secular ideology and rejected Orgin sought refuge at the isolated mountain town.
I personally think b fits better with what we know of the Ancients since it would explain why they were so idealistic. The Alteran, as a people, never had to actually defend territory.
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