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Blog 4 - A Glimpse of the Past
Good afternoon,
dear students. In today’s possible the most boring blog of my teaching history,
I will teleport to several moments in the past since these periods could
possibly answer many of my questions regarding how certain things were created.
Babylon (4000
BC)
I have been
always curious about the thinking process of building bridges. It’s such a
mind-blowing thing, if you ask me, to connect one point to another by means of
sturdy, heavy materials such as rocks, metal beans, clay, etc. and to not die
in the process. If you ask me, it would have never occurred to me that through
blending, cutting, adapting certain materials by following mathematical calculations
would lead me to resolve this problem. As a matter of fact, the first attempts
of creating these paths were done in the Babylon civilization.
Old Stone Age
(Paleolithic Age)
In one of my
favorite podcasts, one of the podcasters mentioned that “depending on the dose,
everything can be poisonous”. It was really shocking to hear that because it is
actually true: all of us can agree that doing sports is a good thing, but when
you overexercise your body till the brink of suffering lesions is bad; the same
goes with work or other schemes. But I got stuck with the poison part. How did
people notice that certain elements were poisonous? Did they test it on other
humans? Or were they only true observants of others being affected by this element?
Those are really unsolved mysteries for me. As far as the Internet tells me,
the first people using poison for their own good were prehistoric hunters when
they dipped their arrows in snake venom during the Paleolithic Age.
Conclusion
To finish this
endless rambling of mine, I would say that, although I would have enjoyed being
part of the thinking process of these past creations, by no means I would have
lived in those time periods. Why? because, come on, it was such a hard life! I’m
truly satisfied to learn all these inventions through the internet, while
enjoying my hot cup of tea and watch Netflix later.
P.S: If any of
you, future anthropologists or sociologists can give me a better answer to my
curiosity, it will be greatly appreciated.
hello miss, i really agree with the way you're thinking about traveling to the past like, yeah i would really enjoy to see how in that times the people invented so many things but living forever there? no way, i will die if i don't have my comfy bed.
ResponderEliminarHello teacher, I find the dates and places you would like to go are very interesting, those are questions that I have also asked myself. Sadly, from sociology, I can’t say very much about the invention of things, but I imagine is that the need creates challenges to invent, I imagine that many people had to fail before achieving it.
ResponderEliminarhello teacher, I would also like to go back in time, it must be exciting to go back to that very interesting and difficult time in history, go back to the time like in the movie "ice age".
ResponderEliminarhello teacher, great post and I agree with the reflection haha I would not have liked to live in those hard times either
ResponderEliminarHello miss, I think the times you speak of are quite hectic, the ice age too cold to think of going there. But it is true that it would be interesting to see a society not yet westernized.
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Hello miss, I think that even the person that most loves the cold weather doesn´t like to go in the past to that age, and from my career I can´t say anything about the questions, but I agree that for us is a looot more comfortable living this age comparing to that
ResponderEliminarHello teacher! Very interesting post and I agree with you conclusion, I really prefer to stay warm in my bed than living in extreme conditions.
ResponderEliminarHello miss,I agree that it would be incredible to be able to contemplate the beginning of human civilizations and what customs were like in such an ancient era
ResponderEliminarHi teacher! I agree with your blog and the decision of travel to the past, also, such an interesting reflection with the podcast and the conclusion.
ResponderEliminarHi teacher! I find it very entertaining to travel to such distant times to learn a little about the creations but not at all pleasant to live that moment.
ResponderEliminarGreetings, teacher. the Babylon civilization it´s one of the most important and, personally one of the most interesting civilizations of humankind. I once heard that they even had a functional and written system of laws
ResponderEliminarHi teacher! I'm on your side when you say that you wouldn't like to be forever on those times, even though it would be amazing to be part of the creations that allow us to have the life that we have now ( like trains, computers, even medicine) and be part of the history of the human race i'm not sure if i would be strong enough to survive in such hard moments. I just can't live with the accommodations that I have today :(
ResponderEliminarHi miss, the trave you are inviting us on is very interesting, the vestiges of ancient civilizations are very relevant to understand the present. Some discoveries are truly amazing, and the ability to create such sophisticated things at that time is also amazing. On the other hand, I really liked the phrase from the podcast, it makes a lot of sense to me. :3
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