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Posted by 26536 on 3/23/07; 11:46:26 AM
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By Taryn
Posted by 26536 on 3/22/07; 2:28:17 PM
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Mesopotamian people created many useful things which I’m going to talk about in this report. Mesopotamia is the cradle of civilization so everything the people created is the core of everything we do or say today.
One of the great achievements from the Mesopotamian people was money. Money was invented by bartering Now we use money in the same way. We exchange cashiers at stores, money for items.
The Mesopotamian people created math. Mathematics was taught in schools. Farmers used math to keep track of their inventory. The people who went of to India for trade needed to keep track of the stuff they are taking to India or the goods they brought back from India. The people who had money needed to know what the money was worth and if they spent money how much they would have left or if they received money how much would they have with more money.
Another skill these people achieved was better farming. They started to farm near water because their crops weren’t growing in the blazing desert. Being near water was easier for the farmers to water their crops. Farming near water lead to irrigation.
The best achievement, I think, is the wheel because it took a while to get to where it is now, kind of like everyone in the world they grow and learn to get better at things. The cart/wheel started just a cart with no wheels. Mesopotamians would haul the cart up mountains to get to where they wanted to go. The cart would occasionally get stuck so the people put skis underneath the cart making it slide. Even though this invention got stuck often it did work better, then the people put a bunch of logs under the cart. The cart would slide on the logs and every so often a log would roll out at the end of the cart. The person would have to haul the log back to the front and put it under again continuing the same cycle. Finally the cart had been modified to have notches where wheels would fit. The wheels would be connected by axles making the front two turn at the same time and the back two turn at same time.
In conclusion I learned a lot about the way Mesopotamians lived and how they created everything about our world today. Before I thought most things were invented by people in history like Albert Einstein. Now I know that everything was built upon a community.
Posted by 26536 on 1/19/07; 11:46:22 AM
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Posted by 26536 on 11/30/06; 8:15:58 AM
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Bam, Iran
I like this site because it shows Bam with significance and culture. The web site shows that the whole city of Bam is made of mud, even the castles. It is pretty cool! The site was easy to load and it gave a lot of information about Bam, Iran. Bam looks like it is in pretty good shape for it being 2000 years old. The web site shows many ancient cities all over the world, Bam, Iran was a link on this site.
Posted by 26536 on 11/29/06; 12:04:44 PM
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Well an Australopithecus was more ape like then any other species in the stages of humans. Also it is the least human in the stages. There are many different types of Australopithecus with many different types of skulls and body parts. They are the first stage in human development, approximately 1.2 - 4 million years ago they roamed the earth. An Australopithecus had ape like features and some of the various types had fin like bones on top of their heads, others had large jaws, like an ape of some sort. An Australopithecus lived in either South Africa or East Africa.
Australopithecus had simple tools like a stick in an ant hole and ate the ants that came out of the hole on the stick. They invented the base of every tool except they had small brains so they weren’t technical tools. They had teeth similar teeth to humans today. Australopithecus ate mostly fruit, nuts, and some ate meat. They developed the skill of walking up right for the first time in human history.
RESOURCES
Toutant, A. & Doyle, S. (2000). Ancient Worlds (Outlooks 7). Oxford University Press Canada.
Posted by 26536 on 11/10/06; 3:02:30 PM
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