We know that early mankind were hunters and later farmers, so they had no need for math. With the rise of trade people began to add and subtract. Before the Romans there were no roads to connect tribes with each other. No one knew what was happening outside of their own tribe or valley. No one left their own valley because of subsistance level farming. Foreigners were driven away because food was so short that no one could afford to share with a stranger. If you left your valley there was no employment. Today the exchange of knowedge in the advanced countries has enabled scientific advances which send us into space (or black holes), has allowed to pick apart DNA and RNA and has allowed us to gather energy from quarks and other sub atomic particles. Comments?
2007-10-09
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