7 Ancient Technologies Far Too Advanced For Their Time
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Published 2020-12-03
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Enjoy the video friends!
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The invention of shovel was really ground breaking
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We tend to underestimate people from ancient times more than we should.
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This was cool and all, but how do I get one of those hologram hand thingys
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Wow the first vending machine cool!
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We jus not gonna talk about the hologram glove kol
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NO invention is "ahead of its time;" it enters the "time-stream" as a sometimes stunning innovation by a (usually) brilliant thinker or artificer. Then, it changes society, often in dramatic ways.
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Those repeating crossbows were able to shoot fast, but their drawweight was really weak. So the crossbow itself would not kill anyone and it was also very short-ranged. They had to use poison to make them deadly and it was primarly a self-defense weapon for untrained people. So it wasn't really superior to later medieval crossbows and bows which had a lot more reach and force. But there was a cool story about a guy with the name Yang Xuan in 180 AD. According to the story he managed to defeat rebel forces by wagons full of lime. The wind blew the lime in the direction of the rebel forces and it blinded them. Then they set rags on the tails of the horses of some other wagons in fire so the horses would run at the enemy without the need for a driver and there were mounted crossbows on the wagons with a mechanism connected to the wheels so the crossbows were basically automated and shot randomly. And the rebel forces tried to shoot back, but just wounded each other. But it really sounds just like a tale without much evidence that it was true. But at least it shows that they were able to imagine a mechanism like that.
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Those people used their minds to think...unlike us who rely on history
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“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun” Ecclesiastes 1:9
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All this proves is that human intelligence has been around for a long long time.
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In South India there are large number of temples built by chera chola Pandian kings . One such temple is in Thanjavur . A single stone weighing hundreds of kilos was placed by building a slop way four or five kilometres long . It is called the Pragadeeswara temple. From Burma huge chunks of teak woods were throughen into the ocean . Due ocean currents they were transported to southern India. Souther Indian kings conquered the Indonesia and surrounding areas and built many temples one is Angorwat . Indian kings did had a big ships sailed from India to Indonesia and srilanka Buddishsam was spread to other countries .
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I love that this channel doesn't click bait its viewers.
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I truly believe that we underestimate “ancient Egypt” and other ancient civilizations. I feel they were by far more advanced that what we believe them to be. I think we are living in time where we are catching up to what used to be on this planet.
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People confuse intelligence with time, same with wisdom and age. Humans will always be ahead of their time. All they need will be someone who is capable of bringing it forward.
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About the thumbnail, ah yes, it was too advanced for the time, the ability to drag rocks
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The circle in the thumbnail basically circled a random thing
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A fun video. I was actually hoping for major scientific discoveries or technologies that came out of nowhere and could spark explanations anywhere from alien intervention to time travel into the past - you know, really crazy stuff.😂 There definitely were a few - Leucippus/Democritus' atomic theory, around 4-500 BCE comes to mind. It was remarkably accurate, wasn't based on any prior work and wasn't experimentally confirmed and improved until the 19th century.
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As a self-contained touring cyclist I gotta say that Roman multi-tool was pretty sweet. Also, there's no doubt in my mind what the shovel was for. lol
