Ancient Ideas Research Paper

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Ideas come from lots of people but most of them only know the base because of the Greek and Romans. Ideas of blueprints came from Leonardo Da Vinci, a Greek man. Politics were introduced by Greek and Romans. Religion, was both. Voting, Roman. Kings/Queens, Greek. Formation, Roman. Citadel, Roman. Volume, Greek We all are influenced by Ancient ideas no matter who we are, rich person? Politics, poor person? Money, we are all influenced by Ancient ideas. Ideas have certain effects, like… Gravity gets water to their Citadel, politics encourage their sense of work ,religion gives them something to keep them going, something believe in, Voting gets them what we want or at least what they says they will do, Kings/ Queens give them a ruler, …show more content…
Archimedes’ screw was like a elevator, effectively lifting water up a slope, so what happens is that the water is going up the screw diagonally, the water is lifted up by the giant screw and tries to go down but because it is diagonal it gets pushed against the side so it can’t go down, you would need to understand gravity to understand Archimedes’ screw. Roads needs to be planned on paper, but first the terrain needs to be recorded so you don’t run into a mountain, so basically you are making a blueprint. Milestones can help to navigate the roads because it will help you to plot where to go, so what the idea that contributes is scientific thinking because, why would you need milestones if you don’t do anything with them. Water pumps work because. they get water from deep below the earth bringing the water upwards is that when you use it you are actually sucking out air and so, the water replaces it, but to to actually build it, you would have to be able to understand air and vacuums. Now let’s talk about medical and surgical equipment, you would have to be very skilled because, you would have to use a non toxic metal and carve it with utmost precision, so you would have to have knowledge of metals and how to clean them. Caesareans, you probably never even heard of the word, is used to remove a baby if the mother dies during birth so the maker would have to take into account every possible situation for it to even work, this is otherwise known as planning. Fast curing cement had to be experimented on and thought about, so you would have, to have a vast knowledge of chemicals and solutions. Reinforced concrete, how would would you reinforce concrete you would have to know how should they do

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