Ways Ancient Civilizations Were More Advanced Than You Think
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Simon!. Kids are baby goats!.
Simon Whistler, look up the roman surgical instruments from a history channel video I saw years ago we are using the same style of surgical instruments today and they were doing cataract surgery back then.
you should stop advertising vpn enabling netflix out of country, netflix as caught up with that a while back already.
Do you mention MATH? Math, needs to be found …
Some people would rather believe Aliens did it, than ancient civilizations managed it. Meanwhile 2000+ years ago, ancient Greeks calculated the size of Earths sphere, but 10% of the internet are convinced it's flat
To be fair, they would rather believe that aliens did it because aliens=exciting, not so much because they’re skeptical of ancient humans
flat brains see flat earth
i believe aliens had something to do with our past...the pyramids are much much older than the Egyptians, who knows, maybe some hybrid civilization or aliens helped the humans back then build them like moving those 70 ton slabs within the pyramids etc...just a thought ! mainstream science would never admit such things bc it messes up everything we know
Given that all of the civilizations influenced by ancient aliens were neolithic, the ancient aliens must have been like the Flintstones, but with flying saucers.
@@rathersane That would make them the Jetsons!
I absolutely adore this video. My dad has said regularly since I was a child, and I now say to my children, that people who give credit to aliens or magic based on new age stuff for things that ancient man did, they are saying our ancestors were stupid, which they were profoundly not. They were every bit as intelligent, they just had less of a knowledge base to draw from. They were PERFECTLY capable.
Courtesy of the harsher environments they lived in, they may have actually been slightly more intelligent, on average, than we are.
@@michaelrichter9427much more intelligent! We have an incredible knowledge base (their observations and calculations ARE that base) yet, on average, we fall somewhere between imbeciles and idiots in comparison.
I think there is an extremely high probability we have had alien interference and not because I think our ancestors were stupid but because of several aspects of very early history that don’t make sense. I find a lot of extremely well read people believe the same.
Your dad lied.
@@brocephas8553🙄
There is actually a record from ancient Rome that seems to indicate they knew about micro-organisms.
“Precautions must also be taken in the neighbourhood of swamps, both for the reasons given, and because there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases."
Terentius Varro
De Re Rustica, 1.12
WOW!
I love Terentius movies. He’s a great writer and director.
Yeah, kinda makes one wonder if the Romans were closer to developing Germ Theory or old-fashioned Miasma Theory.
@@joshuahunt3032 If microscopes haven't been invented, is there really that much of a practical difference between Germ Theory and Miasma Theory? Miasma is not correct but it is an astonishingly good approximation.
@@caryeverett8914i mean past peoples understood that air can become contaminated from other things, just not really knowing the source, however, knowing the air was bad. There are several Indian scientists from the Golden Age of India (300 - 600 CE) that knew about some form of germ theory and how regular washing of hands, feet and face along with regular bathing helped reduce disease.
Former district nurse here. We use honey with necrotic wounds, it has pretty amazing antibacterial properties. Silver and seaweed dressings also. Not to mention maggot therapy.
It always got me thinking of the possibilities when I consider my grandfather, who was born in 1892, saw the first airplanes take flight and then witnessed man landing on the moon.
There is evidence that the Egyptians had at the very least a working knowledge of the Pythagorean theorem. They used a string of length a+b+c to make right angles, with a = 3 units, b = 4 units, and c = 5 units. As a²+b²=c², if the loop is closed, the angle where a touches b must be 90°. Simple and effective.
I think all of this goes to show how much innovation can be achieved if you give people the resources to not constantly work and be able to think for a little bit.
That, my friend, is what i call "problem solving skills". Rushing through a project leads to error(s) in my experience. I bet they were ALOT more patient back then hahahahahahaha
You think they didn't work? Are you that daft or that lazy?
You should start a company. 😂
I agree 100%. People were free back then. They didn't have tech and HVAC but they also lived their lives as free people instead of being wage slaves for computers and creature comforts like we do today. Necessity is the mother of invention, and they had a lot of both.
@@no_step_on_snek9796 there were farmers. Obviously the people inventing stuff back then are all well off for their time. I'm just saying almost anybody could have came to come up with those innovations given the time and resources. Things today we think are so crazy people back then have done.
Plus fun fact they did have HVAC back then. Air conditioning existed thousands of years ago.
I live in the US southwest region and I'm constantly amazed by the ancient dwellings that have survived hundreds or even a thousand years, such as Mesa Verde. Also building them halfway down cliffs is astounding. It makes practical sense for shelter and protection from enemies/animals, but it couldn't have been easy.
Mesa Verde is on my bucket list.
I've been to Mesa Verde twice. It is an amazing place. I have never doubted that there was ancient actual knowledge, but this video is a keeper!
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This should be pinned instead of the stupid comments at the top.
Impressive, but it still took until one generation ago to find a way to avoid going to school uphill both ways.
What a time to be alive.
My two teenage godsons would dispute that.
In the snow, everyday!!
Yeah I was gonna say I was always told it was in the snow. But I’m from up north so guess that only applies to us 🤣 💜
How does one avoid a hill
“No aliens necessary, it’s just human ingenuity.”
I’m taking that quote
When Simon is 70, I hope he has a Merlin beard.
And a big pointy hat.
He hates fantasy, so I doubt that'll happen.
Just like sword in the stone!! Hawaii shirt and long grey beard.
It's finally gotten to the point that I don't have to go on Pornhub every time I see Simon.
He'd look absolutely awesome.
Can you imagine how advanced we'd be if he didn't have to keep rediscovering this stuff?
The importance of Pi can't be overestimated.
Strawberry is my favorite.
I prefer cherry or pecan
has to be cherry
Cream pie ftw
Cheesecake! And it is a pie damnit!
Apple for me, please.
Ancient people were just like us, just without the smartphones and dentistry.
YOu might want to google egyptian dentistry
@@jonathanhirschbaum6754they had dentures, but other than that, still pretty bad comparatively.
Wrong!
To be fair they had smoke signals and Ash tooth paste and as we all know that is nature's smartphone and oral hygiene just as good... Hey if you've got a cut you can make your own Band-Aid it's this nifty thing called a pulposus and if you're regular you make the main ingredient every day all natural
If not for them some of wouldn’t be here
I'm surprised he didn't bring up Roman concrete.
Limited time, almost unlimited source material... He had to pick and choose the "biggies", and the more ancient the more remarkable.
But yeah, Roman concrete is a good one. That material is still standing today.
@@bytheleethere are some good videos about Roman concrete out there. I’ll never understand why so many people want to insult our ancestors by basically saying they were stupid when they clearly weren’t. Since the dawn of humanity there have been very smart people out there.
If Columbus had used Eratosthanes' figure for the size of the Earth, he wouldn't have set out at all. The existence of America was unknown to Europeans at the time. For all they knew, there was nothing but open ocean all the way across to Japan and China. There was no way for ships of the period to make such a long voyage all at a go. This was, in fact, the essence of the dispute between himself and accepted scholarship, and why he found it so hard to get his voyage financed despite the wealth that would have been brought by success.
Columbus was an idiot who nearly got himself and his crew killed and was only saved by accidentally discovering a continent that he didn't realize existed. Which he thought was India because he openly rejected the scientific consensus regarding the circumference of Earth and was insisting the Earth was 1/3rd the size it actually was.
Reminder, Babylonians had the approximation of the value of square root of two since the 2nd Millenium BC, and sumerians from the 3rd millenium had division, multiplication and geometrical excercises
Sumerians invented just about everything
Simon without sleeves got me all sorts of f*cked up right now… get this man a turtleneck sweater!!
It’s like seeing your teacher at the grocery store.
Why?
It's partly funny because i'm wondering why someone starts to wear a tshirt when winter is starting, then i remember he is in the northern hemisphere
Hey! Hey! He’s working hard in these bits! You can almost see a sheen of sweat….
@@negativeindustrial 11:17
"Standing on the shoulders of giants" and all that. There are a lot of things people today can re-learn from the past, but I've always maintained it's whoever did or invented something first, from first principles, who deserves the real praise.
There is only 149 years between the discovery of Antarctica, and landing a man on the moon.
How is one relevant to the other?
@@ConcreteLand exploration, technologies' ramp up in the last 200 years.
Even cooler, it was just 66 years between the first man to fly an aircraft at Kitty Hawk and the first man to walk on the Moon ^_^
Antartica was not "discovered" 150 years ago budd ..people have been sailing far and away much before that
There is only 39y in between me popping in existance and this vid😂
Isnt that crazy?
Pythagoras was not made famous for discovering the Pythagorean properties of triangles. Instead he was made famous for making the first geometric proof of the property. Thus proving it holds for all right triangles and paving the way for mathematical proofs
Just a note that when the Maya was first mentioned it was Teotihuacan was shown. It’s in Mexico but it’s not a Mayan city.
Aztec
@@TheFlizash Not aztec, teotihuacanan, they predate the aztects in central mexico.
Most people don’t know the difference between Aztec, Maya and other Meso American cultures.
I believe it was Socrates who said: "All Knowledge is Remembering"......
The Egyptian use of honey on wounds is very impressive, it's still used in modern medicine.
But... the past was the worst...
Necessary comment lol
Both. Both are true 😂
90s were pretty great. 90-99AD
@@victoriaeads6126 Kind of like "time heals all wounds" and "absence makes the heart grow fonder".
Came here to comment this haha
Wow! Eratosthenes and his crew were definitely at the top of their game! Amazing stuff.
History is so important. It's constantly agitated that it might have to repeat itself because we don't listen.
A never-ending cycle of ignorance triumphing over intelligence and then having to start over. During many revolutions, it's not the idiots whom are targeted but usually the thinkers. It has affected civilizations to this day.
The prehistoric cave paintings in southern France became animated under firelight.
The paintings were done up to the ceilings of these caves, which go up to 10 feet in height.
I think you are describing Chauvet Cave - immortalised in a magnificent 2010 documentary movie by Werner Hertzog called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams". Anybody wanting a mind-blowing bit of armchair tourist culture should take a look. (Streaming services, TH-cam...) These cave drawings were done some 32,000 years ago - twice as old as anything else ever discovered. Animals such as horses and rhinoceros are readily identifiable. And far more realistic than anything most people could draw today, never mind the animation and 3D effects. The artistry is so good, they might have been drawn yesterday. Except for the layers of calcite over the top, that provides the dating information. Calcite deposits cannot be rushed...
And this has what exactly to with the current episode?
@@arminhanik7229Just one more data point.
In ancient Rome, there were physicians/surgeons that were able to perform cataract surgery, without killing the patient, or blinding them. In fact, the patients not only survived, but were able to see clearly again.
That last point is still good to remember when we are so isolated from other parts of the world seen as adversaries... Billions of people not normally collaborating day to day is a huge waste.
Sad you didn’t go over Hattusa and it’s incredible pipe water system.
Even earlier the knowledge of stone and what could be done with it is extraordinary, Pre-pottery knowledge of working with stone, still cannot be explained. From making cups and bowls to moving megalithic stonework, not to mention the precision that was used to create these objects. Our ancestors made good and creative use of what was around them. I was a seaman in the engine room on merchant ships in the late 60s, when something broke or stopped working, there was no place to go for parts or tools, we had to use what we had around us, or in a worst-case scenario have to abandon ship or even die.(In march 1966 in the North Sea after leaving Bremerhaven a rupture in the hall in the 5th cargo bay was letting sea water flood the the cargo space. The engineers on that ship worked and did some strange emergency fixes that saved our ship. They used what we had. Our ancestors did the same, they were wonderful and creative problem solvers.
Very nice compilations of early advanced technologies.
You mentioned communication towards closing, an excellent point, since it is in sharing and recording information we are able to pass on our advances to the next generation.
During Alexander the Great's time, the Greeks also took advantage of the parabola to create the acoustic amplifiers and reflectors to communicate from mountain top to mountain top. A few of the rare examples to still exist were in Afghanistan and Macedonia, and still work when we tried them on deployment. Wonder why that idea was not continues and expanded back then?
A modern equivalent would be the acoustic range detectors used in 1939 and 1940 Britain to track incoming raids. Radar of course soon surpassed that system but it did exist even in the 20th century.
Excellent series and articles, Simon and crew!
Thank you for making and posting them!
There are more egyptian papyri with medical content, like the Papyrus Ebers, which is kept in the library of the University of Leipzig. It contains generally the same set of advice and diagnostic methods as described in the Papyrus of Edwin Smith, but also adds a few magical prayers for a "medicine". The Edward Smith papyrus is the one among them, that omits such supernatural components.
Another Simon Whistler production. Yay. Good that aliens weren't necessary for construction projects. Very interesting.
0:59 - yes. can you imagine people navigated by paper maps and mapquest before gps?
Some people created the maps.
I can’t stop imagining Fact Boi silently screaming “THE PAST WAS THE WORST!” as his software glitches.
More people should know about Heron of Alexandria (C1st AD) who invented programmable wagons, vending machines, the hydraulic telegraph, automatic doors, the steam engine, the syringe, wind powered machines, and even constructed and directed an entirely automatic play.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"
My intro to philosophy professor spent more than half the semester on Plato and Pythagoras (since philosophers theorized about maths and science in order to understand the universe) and the amount of stuff I learned in that class about ancient knowledge was staggering.
Navigation by stars is always mind-blowing and to think did it all the time
Just looking around me, today, I would wager that they were on the whole, more intelligent than we are....
That is just as much a fallacy as the assumption that ancients were dumber than us. For every Pythagoras, there were tens of thousands who couldn't have figured out how to plow a field without someone showing them. Not to mention the fact that we have general literacy, which is a quite recent development and makes even the dumbest of our days more educated and trained in systematic thinking than the majority of humanity just a few hundred years ago.
I found the opening scenes from "Idiocracy" to be an excellent explanation of why the human race is almost certainly on a current "dumbward trajectory".
When I look around, I feel my elders are generally better educated and more aware of things than the youth of today. Wisdom comes with age... or does it?
There is a danger that attention and learning has become highly focussed on "the wrong things". Like, celebrity and soap opera and fashion and drama... Having status symbols like the right smartphone and trainers have become "important", and can consume far too much time. Leaving too little for what used to be considered important.
I blame the internet. In the before times, the "village idiot" generally kept their idiocy within said village. Now, thanks to the internet, all the idiots from all the villages from all over the world have instant and constant contact with each other at all times. And, as the saying goes, never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
@@bythelee Those elders just had different status symbols. Cars instead of trainers, expensive watches instead of smartphones. And they were the ones who invented those distractions in the first place. And life experience is a great thing when the world doesn't change that much, but in a world where computers went from rare furniture-sized luxury items to pocket-sized commodities, where information broadcast technology went from challenging to operate for countries to in the hands of most children, where Europe went from a divided continent to a almost borderless union - and all of that within one generation - experience becomes more of an obstacle than an advantage. Today's youth knows way more and can do way more than any generation before them and the elders struggle every day to keep up. And I say that as someone who has been around for more than two generations already.
I heard that the ancient Egyptians used 22/7, which is 3.1429 and much closer to the real value of pi. Other mathematicians calculated fractions that were even closer.
idk about ancient egyptians, but my ancient dad, who would be 101 this year, used 22/7
There are a lot of such numbers. A favourite of mine is 355 / 113. Very close to pi, though a long time ago I memorised pi to 15 places and now it is stuck in my head.
"Given more priority than the Residences of the Elite", Damn I wish we was like that.
We would be better off, no doubt.
Imagine if our resources were dedicated to science and medicine instead of mansions and yachts for the rich.
@@ajstevens1652 Don't forget "security" and "defense"; which somehow usually create an even bigger spending on "security" and "defense".
@@ajstevens1652our resources go to what we convince society is important.
"They certainly had more knowledge than they had wrote down."
Jeez, Simon is so loaded from his 100 channels that he has a time machine now to confirm his statements!
Liu Hui was the 3.14 mathematician. Zu Chongzhi was the 3.1415926 mathematician.
I miss the less cerebral Simon. I remember when it was "I'm Simon from WhatCulture and these are the 10 best Jock Strap Related Incidents from the WCW era"
"Medical honey" is still used for wound care even now.
Ancient ship building was super impressive
this is fantastically interesting. I don't think this is talked about nearly enough!
Say what you will about the bagpipes, they are ancient! Anyone who looked at a sheep and thought “musical instrument” was thinking waaaaaaay outside the box. Scary brilliant.
(I’m a novice piper)
I think that inventions by Heron of Alexandria, especially those related to use of steam, albeit relatively recent (1st century AD) should have been mentioned. In different social and economic environment they could have started the industrial revolution 1500 years before is actually started.
THANK YOU for using AD and BC !!! Makes SO much more sense ....
I'm now 60 years old. I have been saying for decades that the Ancients were FAR smarter than we ever give them credit for.
BC and AD define the years of Our Lord. Reject "common era" stuff (CE & BCE).
@@EllieMaes-Grandad Your Lord. Not mine. Not, in fact, the Lord of the majority of the planet's inhabitants.
CE and BCE, thank you very much.
@@EllieMaes-Grandad BC refers to Before Ceasar, and AD is Ante Domino (sp?) which means after Dominion. btw, it was Ceasar who invented the currently used calendar. it's just coinidence that the mythical figure of Jesus was supposedly born at this time
Thank you for this video! You can only hear about the horrible things people do for so long before it's all you think about. It happens too often in the media. Hearing about the great accomplishments of mankind is one of my favorite pastimes.
I concluded that our ancient ancestors were way smarter than anticipated during a holiday tour of Ireland.
When assessing the flagstone shallow pit that could have been a small grave, but filled with bog water, it became obvious that the Irish were having hot baths some 10,000 years ago.
These things (fulacht fiadh = "full ach fear") could heat 40 gallons of water to boiling point in about 20 minutes. By dropping in hot stones, roasted in a nearby fire. How simple! Yet, how clever!
We know they were used for cooking (boiling meat and veg for the original Irish Stew perhaps) but the shape and size also makes them perfect for bathing, too.
fun fact, the Egyptians also prescribed the use of "Mary jane" or "420" as a broncho-dilator to aid with flu, pneumonia and asthma.
perfect timing! Waiting for my oven cheese rn and this banger dropped
Oven cheese? Like you just put some cheese on a tray in the oven and cook it??
Seriously, do you just cook cheese and call it a meal???
WE NEED ANSWERS DAMN IT
I need more info on this oven cheese this is way more important than some civilization from like a billion years ago
Oven cheese is great! I've got two in the fridge, pro'ly having one tomorrow.
For those that don't know: they come in a wooden form and you bake it until it is mostly fluid, with a nice crust on top; with nice bread it's delicious.
Hunter/gatherers have absolutely no need for a precise calendar. That’s A LOT of work for a novelty item.
The biggest stumbling block for them was medicine. The physical sciences were pretty advanced: math, engineering, and astronomy. But the people were not living past their 30’s or 40’s, which prevented that gained knowledge from propelling them even further. Medicine has proven to be the toughest nut to crack. Even in the modern era, it is way harder to cure diabetes or cancer than it is to make an iPhone, a self driving car or to make a space station.
Well, on average people weren't living very long, but individuals have always been living to a hundred or longer.
I want Simon to turn into The Wise Old Man when he gets older. Blue Phat and all, lol.
There are 13 Lunar Months, we use a Solar Calendar with 12 months.
"The months of the Gregorian calendar do not correspond to the moon's phases, but the calendar does have leap years to account for the Earth's revolution being slightly longer than 365 days. "
"Yes, the lunar calendar has 13 months, each with 28 days. The moon takes about 28 days to orbit the Earth, so in one year, the moon completes 13 orbits. The Celtic lunar calendar is an example of a 13-month calendar, with an extra day added at the end of the year."
Simon should have mentioned the Mesapotamian Battery, the earliest known battery discovered within the Sumerians ruins in Babylon, Iraq.
We are all truly blessed to be living in the Modern world.
The Romans began to settle around 15BC in the area today known as Xanten in Germany. They had running water and a function sewer system, a public bath house with under-floor steam heating and water flushed latrines. They had figured out that it is not a good idea to poop into one’s fresh water supply! Then came the ‘Dark Ages’, during which more than 1/3 of Europe’s population died from diseases caused by unsanitary conditions! 😮
I thank god everyday that I’ll never have to do the quadratic equation or factor polynomials ever again.
Honey doesn't go bad... period... one must dilute it to the point that it's merely an 'ingredient' in a concoction in order for the honey to 'go bad'. preserving food in honey goes back MUCH farther than recorded history. This property is it's whole purpose for the bees, and it makes _perfect_ logical sense that an infected wound; being likened to a cut of meat 'going bad', which isn't far off; might be aided by the "preserving properties" they'd directly observed.
Never underestimate the power of Direct Observation!
5:41 Imagine a guy named Warren Field coming across this part of the video, lol
Just a suggestion, you should consider working on the ending of your videos putting in some kind of short close instead of just leaving an abrupt end that leaves us wondering if part of the video got cut off.
Honestly, look at all the historic buildings and then tell me the ancestors or even another civilization hadn't some technology we're not known to. I think it has to do with frequencies, sound, water and magnetic fields. Like the Pyramids are today known that they served as a battery and I think the historic building style also kind of uses the same mechanism. Probably has to do with "free energy" something that Tesla talked about.
I’m guessing most ancient Egyptians didn’t know linear algebra and how to solve quadratic equations, just like most people today do not.
Fascinating video thank you
The history of mathematics is an ever-growing series of abstractions. Evolutionarily speaking, the first abstraction to ever be discovered, one shared by many animals, was probably that of numbers: the realization that, for example, a collection of two apples and a collection of two oranges (say) have something in common, namely that there are two of them. As evidenced by tallies found on bone, in addition to recognizing how to count physical objects, prehistoric peoples may have also known how to count abstract quantities, like time--days, seasons, or years.
Ancient Egypt and Greece were the most prominent ones. These two civilizations laid out the foundation of many scientific methods and inventions. Especially ancient Greece was much more advanced in many ways.
My nephew loves to go hiking and camping. At my suggestion he keeps packages of honey in his first aid kit and has actually used them on occasion. Science! Also. It absolutely amazes me that people assume ancients were less intelligent or advanced. All of our scientists, engineers, inventors, etc, and all of our gadgets had to come from somewhere. This stuff didn't just pop into existence out of the ether.
Lui Hui … ‘cut’ 4:58
You keep missing one syllable: EraTOSthenese, not Erasthenes.
These sorts of videos are super interesting :O
Happy birthday week Simon!!!
Fascinating (not in the least due to not saying a word about the Aliens). But why so much so advanced knowledge got lost to the rough times erasing what might have driven civilization so much further than we see today? One simple answer comes to mind and it's exclusivity of knowledge. For for knowledge to survive it's of utmost importance to be replicated and reproduced on a massive scale.
The papyrus at 5,000 years old is nowhere near the age of the pyramids
we will never be as good at math again because math is more and more being done for us by computers. once the language of computers was created, math was saved on a memory card outside of our brains.
I'm still waiting for the "how many channels does Simon Whistler have" episode...lol
The ancients had our intelligence but not our knowledge and unfortunately knowledge can be lost. An episode on the times that our knowledge was lost and set us back in our technological development would be great. Ignorance is not stupidity.
Yes typically the worst parts of history were due to ignorance either by subduing knowledge from the poor classes or wars destroying knowledge over time which set civilizations back for a bit
Hey! Just wanted to say that the firsr picture you show of the Mayans at 9:18 is actually of Teotihuacan, which is a completely different culture. Just thought you should know :)
The ancient egyptian way of finding out the sex of your child before birth is something that always amazes me...
Imagine how much more advanced we could be now if we didn’t have wars and other upheavals regularly causing loss of knowledge and regressing us.
Given some of his apparent attempts at the Greek names in this video, I’m starting to believe that Simon actually is purposefully butchering words to elicit more viewer engagement in the comments (you’re welcome, btw).
Buddy that discovered the circumference of Earth wild bro how you Even come up with the ideas to look at they shadow!! That's crazy genius
Ancient civilizations had a major advantage over us in astronomy because they could actually see the night sky.
I find ancient discoveries and technology utterly fascinating, not least because they worked without our resources of knowledge and technology. It's only one reason why the ancient aliens rubbish is so contemptible.
Did they have no knowledge of microorganisms?
I read about someone who purposed a germ theory of disease almost exactly like our modern theory. They pointed out than animals had sizes as small as the limits of the ability for humans to see and proposed there was no reason to believe that these were the smallest animals that existed.
He tested this idea by cleaning surfaces with the intention of killing these animals that were too small to see, and he did note a lower incident of disease.
However he did not have magnification technology so he could never prove this theory.
Pi doesn’t have a real value
We always use an approximation
We can figure in to billions of places but it never ends
THEY had it rough? We used to go get our own groceries instead of delivery, and when I started school we only had black and white TV.
What eyeglass frames are those?
Simon's beard is becoming it's own being.
How can Simon talk soooo fast without making a mistake, I only do that when I'm drunk, honest😂😂😂
Maybe the editors for his more serious channels don't revel in his mistakes as much as they do on brain blaze for example.
Ancient people is us, we are them.
Egypt deserves far more credit than Mesopotamia. These guys are truly the inventors of complex society beyond just farming all day.
nope