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They don't really explain it... What is generally assumed by the fandom is that following the revolt against Ra, only Ra left Earth alone. The remainder of the System Lords installed and then continued to use the Antarctic gate until it became untenable. Many people think that by that point, there were plenty of subjugated planets the Goa'uld could use for slaves or hosts, and thus didn't need to bother with our backwards little planet.
Another explanation of the cultures found on other planets is one borrowed from Trek, the parallel development theory. That is, an ancient culture would probably evolve along the same lines as the Earthbound equivalent. In this case, the evolution could be considerably slower due to the abscence of conflict from other cultures (like how the Austrailian aborigine culture remained unchanged for thousands of years before a bunch of English guys screwed it up).
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Which actually makes sense. I can imagine one of the System Lords saying one day: "It's fucking cold down here, why don't we put up a gate somewhere a bit warmer?" 8)
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There is at least one culture that definately came through the Beta (Antarctic) Gate. The culture was based on Medieval Christianity which wouldn't have developed until long after the Alpha Gate was buried in the revolt.
However, as was suggested earlier, there were other Goa'uld on Earth besides Ra, apparently. They probably contacted the System Lords who brought another Gate to Earth. I think that these other System Lords were taking Humans to their respective worlds (Ra had Abydos, Apophis had Chulak) to mine the Naquida and serve as hosts.
In fact, Osiris and Seth have been on Earth since the Alpha Gate was sealed and were only recently dicovered. So not all of the Goa'uld left...
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They mentioned the antarctic gate being the more recently buried, and the one explaining the more recent cultures we've seen in the very episode that gate was introduced.
Plus, it sorta makes sense to put the gate in Antarctica, where none of the locals would know where it was. In Egypt, it would have been in a place that would be relatively attackable by the resident population, and indeed that's what happened. In Antarctica, there's no one around, and getting there would be tough for anyone except the Goa'uld and their mighty flying vessels.
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Yah, I remember when their collective lightbulb came on and they realized that there were two gates at the same address, they asked Teal'c if the Goa'uld would bring another gate if one became inaccessable. He said they might.
Now, this could be interpretted as asking if the Egyptian Gate would've been brought after the Antarctic one was buried or vice versa. It's been a while since I saw that ep, though, so the question may have been more clear than that though.
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Well, I just figured the Antarctic gate was older, because Antarctica has been under ice for a lot longer than the Egyptian gate had been underground. Of course, if we assume that the Antarctic gate was installed in the ice on purpose, that changes everything...
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The thing is though, that they basically established the burying of the Egyptian gate at around 3000 BC, IIRC. We've seen Christian and Viking cultures in the series that obviously post-date that date. They had to get the people off the planet somehow, and the series mythology leads us to believe that their ships weren't capable of traveling very fast until just recently (Teal'c thought motherships traveled at only 10c and cargo ships at 2c, but both were proven wrong fairly quickly). So the second gate must be the newer one.
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I think the Norse were taken off-world by the Gou'ald, but thereafter, protected by the Asgard. However, I also seem to remember a line in one of the eps about the Asgard visiting Earth and also posing as gods.
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The second gate I think is the Egyptian one. I do believe they used the older gate (Antartica) to get more slaves off planet but I couldn't give you an exact quote or ep on it.
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