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.

Comentarios

  1. Hello teacher, I think that for me it is also interesting how in pre-history they could think of such accurate conclusions on topics that today are complex topics and that mostly require long investigations with modern technology. Have a good end of the week!

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  2. Hello teacher, I think that is very interesting to know how people in the Paleolithic periodic identified that certain substances were very toxic. Also, i consider amazing that after identifying them they prepared them and then used them in the hunt.
    Have a nice week!

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  3. Hello teacher, how interesting, I would also love to visit Babylon, as I put on my blog, I am very attracted to its architecture and its history. Also about the other place you would visit, I'm afraid of mammoths, so I wouldn't go. Have a nice weekend. :)

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  4. how interesting! I had never thought to ask myself those questions about the Old Stone age, I'm always willing to do a lot of research together hahahahaha

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  5. Hello professor, I really liked your post, specifically the last part, it seems that the Paleolithic people were smarter than us with the technology they had. Have a great weekend and happy birthday! ha ha

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  6. Hello teacher I agree with you that the construction of some structures and knowledge about poison has a lot of mystery. I personally think that for the construction of certain structures the human being could have received help from beings who do not know their origin, while about the knowledge about the poison I believe that it was simply given by instinct in the nature of the human being.

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  7. hello teacher!
    Now I'm curious about what you say about the poison, I hadn't wondered about it before and well, I hope they haven't tested it on people:o
    Have you a nice day!

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  8. Hi teacher, I share with you the curiosity of traveling back in time. Moreover, I don't know if I really like to go to the Paleolithic Age; maybe if I can just observe, I will do it.

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  9. Hello teacher , I found your post very interesting since, like you, a time in the past that I would like to go to is the Paleolithic age .
    Have a nice week :)

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  10. Hello teacher, I find your choices interesting. Above all, I agree with you that in those times life was much more hard than it is now, I also prefer to be comfortable at home with a cup of tea watching Netflix haha. Have a nice day.

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  11. Hi teacher is really exciting, think about travel in time and watch important and interesting moments in the history, and it's very interesting that everything can be poisonous i've never thought it before.

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  12. Hi teacher!, there is a lot of things that the humanity did in the past that make me curious about their origins like the Egyptian piramids, the people were so smart in that time and the technology that they had was so rudimentary. Have a nice day!

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  13. Hello teacher, I liked your blog, I found what you mentioned about the Paleontolic age very curious, now it left me wondering how they discovered that, I found it great that you were interested in Babylon, since it is a culture and a quite interesting history, in addition, its buildings are quite curious. Happy Birthday, a little late, but better late than never, have a good week!

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  14. Hello teacher, I really like your post! I also fins it very interesting how our ancestors were able to adapt to different circumstances. Have a good week!

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  15. hello teacher, how interesting your curiosity about the ancient world and the way things worked. And I share that it couldn't replace netflix evenings.

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  16. Hello teacher. I don't know why, but I think that if we could travel to that period, we could discover a lot of secrets about the development of humanity.

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  17. I think most things were discovered by observing, so maybe in the poisonous things for example at that time they saw that some fruits were not eaten by animals or did not touch certain things, maybe from that they sensed that they were bad and well, then they would experiment. It was interesting your blog teacher ^^

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  18. I've always been curious about how it was to know things especially how they were made or how we got there, I'm curious about the fact that before, the first humans tried and if they died trying they didn't do it again.

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