For many thousands of years botany was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights.
2006-07-10 22:05:01 · 12 answers · asked by my12130505 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
hope you can analyze the sentence
why here use the "the one" field?
why here voguest of "vaguest of insights." adj of n.?
and what does "have anything about" mead?
2006-07-10 22:17:26 · update #1
For thousands of years, botany was the one thing that humans understood well enough.
Basically, botany's one "field of awareness" (science) that humans "had anything more than the vaguest of insights" (understood to a decent level).
2006-07-10 22:09:16 · answer #1 · answered by AxisofOddity 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is saying that for for many thousands of years botany was the only subject that humans DID know a lot about.
For example in ancient times in the Americas, the Aztecs had very highly organized and efficiecnt farming methods because they knew a lot about plants, seeds, and crops...
2006-07-11 13:59:32 · answer #2 · answered by Newman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For 1000 years, the world knew nothing about Botany.
2006-07-11 05:08:36 · answer #3 · answered by soulfli 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that botany was one of the subjects about which human beings had nothing more than very vague insights for many thousands of years.
Does this answer your question?
2006-07-11 05:09:08 · answer #4 · answered by Suraj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It basically means that for most of history, humans knew next to nothing about the science of botany.
2006-07-11 05:09:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a long time the study of plants was the one thing that humans did not know anything about ....
2006-07-11 05:09:07 · answer #6 · answered by princess2luv_u 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that for thousands of years humans have the slightest idea about how to study plants!
2006-07-11 05:33:01 · answer #7 · answered by cellm8te 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means people have been using plants to our advantage for a long time. At least thats what i got out of it. So i guess it all boils down to what you think.
2006-07-11 05:10:29 · answer #8 · answered by Sandcrab 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that people knew more about plants and thier uses than anything else... it is true...People knew more about the medicinal uses and edibility of plants more than they understood the workings of thier own bodies, or anything else.
2006-07-11 05:10:25 · answer #9 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which I could help you but... its late and I can't analyze at the moment. Sorry
2006-07-11 05:09:13 · answer #10 · answered by ~∂Їβ~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋