Having set the background and gained a glimpse of just how thorny
the subject could be it seems easiest to change tack and take the loosest of
definitions. Listing some of the many things for which Ancient Rome might justly
be remembered for....in no particular order:
Advanced roads and road
networks
Milestones
The standard width of our modern roads and tunnels is based on
that of ancient Rome (there was a standard width for cart wheels, essentially
based on the need of placing two horses side by side). The worn ruts in the
roads made it virtually impossible to use any other measure.
Triumphal arches
Aqueducts (actually they learned
much about structures from the
Estruscans, but developed it to perfection)
Bronze valves and water pumps.
Huge numbers of instruments and tools for engineering,
construction and measurement. The Romans were, after all, excellent engineers.
For example you could purchase your access to water supply for set hours of the
day or set quantities of water, which were dutifully metered and billed, pretty
much as you would today, albeit with slighty different technology!.
Medical and Surgical
tools (mainly thanks to the Greeks actually but hugely developed as a
consequence of the needs generated by Gladiatorial games and continuous war
campaigns)
Cesareans - sounds like Caesar doesn't it? Cesareans were often used
to save the baby if the mother died during childbirth.
Fast curing cement - hugely important discovery which
allowed cement to cure and harden in short times and even under water. The
ancient Romans realised that adding pozzolanic earth from volcanic regions (Eg
Pozzuoli near Naples) to traditional mortar allowed a water proof and extremely
solid mix. This could be used to waterproof the interior of aqueduct tunnels or
extend the potentials of Roman architecture
with impo
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Lis t of Inventions in Ancient Egypt Black Ink First Ox-Drawn Plows 365 Day Calendar and Leap Year Paper First Triangular Shaped Pyramids Organized labor Hieroglyphics as an early system of writing Sails
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Plywood has been made for thousands of years; the earliest known occurrence of plywood was in Ancient Egypt around 3500 BC when wooden articles were made from sawn veneers glued together crosswise. This was originally done due to a shortage of fine wood. Thin sheets of high quality wood were glued over a substrate of lower quality wood for cosmetic effect, with incidental structural benefits. This manner of inventing plywood has occurred repeatedly throughout history.
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Before the Greek dark ages, Athens was a small village, home to a tribe of Ionian people. After the Greek dark ages, Athens grew rapidly until Athens was one of the two most powerful city-states in the ancient Greek world. (The other was Sparta.)
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The written history of Madagascar begins in the 7th century when Omani Arabs and Shirazi Persians established trading posts along the northwest coast and introduced Islam, the Arabic script (used to transcribe the Malagasy language in a form of writing known as sorabe), Arab astrology and other cultural elements.
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Background: What is slavery?
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What were the tasks of slaves?
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laves on Business
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SLAVERY
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SLAVERY
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When Americans think of slavery, our minds create images of Africans inhumanely crowded aboard ships plying the middle passage from Africa, or of blacks stooped to pick cotton in Southern fields. We don't conjure images of American Indians chained in coffles and marched to ports like Boston and Charleston, and then shipped to other ports in the Atlantic world.
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Yet Indian slavery and an Indian slave trade were ubiquitous in early America. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, tens of thousands of America's native peoples were enslaved, many of them transported to lands distant from their homes.
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here were probably always slaves in India, but until about 1000 AD there were only a few slaves, and most of them worked as house servants.
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Islamic conquerors reached India, they forced many more people to be slaves. They sold thousands of these slaves out of India to work in Persia (modern Iran) or Afghanistan. Many of these people worked in the mines. SIGN IN LOG OUT
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House Bill (HB) 136, which would expand public subsidies for private education
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metal imitations of cowrie shells, and then metal strings of beads called cash
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