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lecture 4: technological inventions smelting copper, adding arsenic (later tin) to make bronze; making a city Uruk
the inventions have to do with fire all the time: heating / burning limestone to make gypsum; burning ore (rock) to smelt copper; the lecturer asks: why would anyone think to do that?
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no difference between rich and poor yet – but that’s about to change
that’s how lecture 3 ends. so i guess in lecture 4 there are kingdoms.
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the neolithic revolution wasn’t intentional – so is the AI revolution
started watching “Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization”, now finished lecture 2 of the course, Prof. Amanda H. Podany says that people did not intend to become farmers, no one invented it, they just gradually got depended on more domesticated plants and animals, and i think it can be compared (in the series […]
