| ▲ | Shitty-kitty a day ago | |
Brewing alcohol was known to hunter-gatherers. Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities). Medicine/education, that's the Greeks. | ||
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities) This is sort of like saying computers were invented in Mesopotamia because they did math. Roman water and earth-moving civil engineering was absolutely cutting edge to the degree that the projects they undertook would have been unfathomable to their Bronze-Age predecessors. | ||
| ▲ | flir a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> Medicine/education, that's the Greeks Egyptians, Shirley? (Although they're such abstract concepts, I'm sure everyone had them to some degree). | ||