Re: Kurds gonna kick serious ass when Americans leave Iraq
- From: "LDillman@xxxxxx" <Xanence@xxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:32:14 -0500
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 07:28 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan) wrote:
>Aw come on. You don't expect your average Republican Yank, or your average New
>Labour Voter, to know anything like Mesopotamia do you? They don't know that the
>Mesopotamians invented things like writing and the wheel. They imagine that
>these things were created in a government think tank.
I have a question for you. Why do you lower yourself by name-calling?
I do realize that it is a temptation to reply in the manner one is
addressed, but to do so by lowering your standards is only to
compliment the person to whom you are replying by becoming more like
that person.
If you were to speak as you would in a formal arena such as a
classroom or lecture hall, your comments would be respected and have
the most possibility of being responded to in a like manner.
By using the technique you've used in the post that I'm responding to,
you alienate most of your audience and anger those who remain. I can
imagine that you've been filtered out by a large segment of the
lurkers and posters in this group.
My advice to you would be to change your Usenet name slightly,
(perhaps "Alan-"), and make your future posts polite and informative.
This would show your education and intelligence instead of having a
negative affect on your readers.
Now, as to what you've said, in actuality, you're information is
technically incorrect on both counts.
As you can see from the below links, writing has been found that dates
more than 2 thousand years before the earliest writings found in what
is now Iraq. The wheels used in 3500 BC by the Mesopotamian's was an
evolved device. The origins of the wheel still haven't been found.
Many hundreds, (if not thousands), of other sources are available to
show this information as being accurate.
Good day to you sir,
LD
http://tinyurl.com/bka8z
"Signs carved into 8,600-year-old tortoise shells found in China may
be the earliest written words, say archaeologists. The symbols were
written down in the late Stone Age, or Neolithic Age. They predate the
earliest recorded writings from Mesopotamia - in what is now Iraq - by
more than 2,000 years."
http://tinyurl.com/9hugr
Up till now, it is still a mystery as to who invented the wheel and
when the wheel was invented. According to archaeologists, it was
probably invented in around 8,000 B.C. in Asia. The oldest wheel known
however, was discovered in Mesopotamia and probably dates back to
3,500 B.C.
http://tinyurl.com/73mjg
But as important as the wheel is as an invention, we don't know who
exactly made the first wheel. The oldest wheel found in archeological
excavations was discovered in what was Mesopotamia and is believed to
be over fifty-five hundred years old.
http://tinyurl.com/berno
The first evidence of actual wheels being used is from the Bronze Age,
somewhere around 3500 BC. One of the groups of people in ancient
Mesopotamia, the Sumerians, used wheels made of a solid piece of wood.
Heavy four-wheeled carts were equipped with these wheels and pulled by
oxen to carry very heavy loads such as metal, timber, or military
supplies.
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