Many of these Chinese inventions came to be in the early times of ancient China. They were discovered by chance and evolved into the inventions we know and recognize today. Some are merely improvements in a specific area, and other inventions have claims to their origin in other areas of the...
The Aztec empire was one of the few in the world to implement mandatory education. Many of the other contemporary civilizations had education for the upper classes, but Aztec education was for everyone, regardless of gender, rank or station. Schools were segregated, however. There were three dif...
In terms of animals, thedomestication of catsoccurred widely in ancient times, in regions from Egypt to China. Domestication of chickens occurred in southern China. Mesopotamia in Asia Minor most likely saw the domestication of cattle and sheep. Mesopotamia was also where the wheel, and subsequentl...
The Aztec empire was one of the few in the world to implement mandatory education. Many of the other contemporary civilizations had education for the upper classes, but Aztec education was for everyone, regardless of gender, rank or station. Schools were segregated, however. There were three dif...
Clock: One of the greatest inventions of the medieval world was the mechanical clock. The difficulty in inventing a mechanical clock was to figure out a way in which a wheel no bigger than a room could turn at the same speed as the Earth, but still be turning more or less continuously....
This fun shooting game may practice the memmory and thinking. Here are the inventions included in the game: 1. Papyrus - 3000 BC. Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as writing surface. Papyrus was first manufactured in Egypt as far back as the fou...
Taken to the extreme in the form of medieval christianity, there is only one truth, and that’s written. Earth was made to test our resolve against it, you’re not supposed to be happy, earthly things (including you or your child) are temporary and fleeting, the greater end is in ...
I wrote an article titled “I Compiled a List of Tech’s “Next Big Things” So You Wouldn’t Have to” in 2018. It has since been read over 50,000 times and shared more than 1,000 times on social media. As anyone reading it in the 2020s will notice, a l
In popular culture and many history books Rome is portrayed as the pinnacle of culture before our modern times. Roman achievements such as aqueducts, thermal spas, roads, and the use of concrete are often highlighted to show how advanced technologically Rome was. Think of the film Gladiator and...
In the medieval period, the Chinese also developed a 12-round repeater crossbow that continued to be used until the nineteenth century, and has been compared to the machine gun in terms of its destructive capacity. Zhang’s Seismoscope