Talk:Avatar/@comment-5475207-20121223232909/@comment-3467624-20130208011508

Well I think it would make sense if it were around a thousand giver or take a few hundred years.

If the Avatar universe is similar to ours in the way that humans came around, that would meant that there were "modern" humans 200,000 years ago. And the Avatar couldn't have (or at least, I don't think so, not the way it is now) existed before all the bending disciplines were created.

We also know that bending, or earthbending at least, was created after there were civilized societies, kingdoms with marked borders, useful weaponry and warfare, written language, and recorded history.

So halfway after they came about makes sense (in fact it would make them way more advanced then we were at that point; this also may explain the tech they made so quickly between Aang and Korra), especially since they spent all that time it the energybending era.