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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 1993837" data-attributes="member: 20740">As for impact (discluding the butterfly effect), I'd say pretty minimal.  It's difficult to think of individuals from BCE that directly impact the modern day.  Christ is the only one I can think of and it's arguable that the Christian faith is morally very similar to that of the Jews and so what kind of impact it might have had that wouldn't have happened without Christianity is questionable.10% population just means that that 10% will prosper wildly for several generations until the population has boomed and begins to regulate itself through war, famine, etc.As for technology, it is possible that the progress may be set back a few years, but significantly?  Doubt it.  Maybe a few breakthroughs of the past 100 years would happen 100 years later.  Over a couple thousand years, though, this isn't that much of a difference.  Also remember that many technological advancements are made through natural events that occur.  Those natural events will still occur and be interpreted by younger generations who can learn from them, even if they are 50 years behind what the other set of people would have had technologically.As for past remembrance, I think it's hard to say.  It's one of those things that is very dependent upon who was wiped out and how advanced technology was at the time of the apocalypse.  For instance, if an apocalypse happened today on Earth, very little information would be completely lost since we have so many duplicates of information.  This would hold true since the invention and proliferation of the printing press.Even before then, if the most advanced knowledge of the time is all compiled in one place (Library of Alexandria is a good example) and nothing happens to the library or its caretakers (this is where the example's relevance crumbles) knowledge may still be maintained fairly well.I'd say this is all a matter of preference.  Without history being written down (perhaps the apocalypes happens when very few people are literate and there are lots of languages; many languages would die out and writing might be a fairly lost art) at the time, the apocalypse will likely end up in most any modern day religion as a creation story or parable (the Deluge, for instance, may have ocurred in some shape or form as there are many world religions who share the same story)I really think a couple thousand years is too long to make an impact.  Fantasy campaigns often have a tendency to write histories back to hundreds of thousands of years or even millions (Eberron).  This makes little sense.  Modern day man didn't even appear until 200,000 years ago (and this is a large estimate).  Civilization of any sort recognizable by you and I didn't appear until a few thousand years ago (5k?).  Two thousand years is a very, very, very long time.I think 200 years would be a better timeframe for post-apocalypse.  Just long enough that everyone around back then and their grandchildren are dead.</blockquote>

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