2007-09-12 05:49:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I did not realize they had an opportunity to reject technology.
2007-09-12 05:52:04 · answer #1 · answered by flautumn_redhead 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course ancient people wanted technology. it was all about improvement of the species. Just because they didn't have it doesn't mean they didn't want it. Technology was around as long as man started using a stone as a tool. Technology does not automatically mean electronics or machines.
There are ancient forms of technology still in use nowadays, such as the wheel.
2007-09-12 05:54:28 · answer #2 · answered by Balaboo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because those who made technology adoption decisions were content with the status quo. When Heron of Alexandria built the first steam engine, no one (including Heron himself) wanted to even consider the potential for its commercial use; why spend money on an engine, when you already have slaves that do all the grunt work?
2007-09-12 06:14:08 · answer #3 · answered by NC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand the question.
1. You're asking as if you knew that they refused technology once or on more occasions
2. You're asking as if someone offered technology
3. Define technology and which ancient people are you talking about?
2007-09-12 05:52:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who said they didn't?
Water wheels, water clocks, potters wheel, steam engines (the first actually came from 100 AD/CE), the warp weighted loom (from 7000 BC), telescopes, sewers....they had technology...not the way we know it, but then again, look at our own history here, in the US....it took what, 200 years to invent the computer?
2007-09-12 06:11:36 · answer #5 · answered by aidan402 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh?
Ancient people invented technology:
the wheel (Middle East)
writing (Middle East)
guns and gunpowder (China)
windmill (Persia/Iran)
chariots (Middle East)
water wheel (Middle East/Egypt)
pyramids (Egypt)
Ziggurats (Middle East)
metallurgy (Middle East)
agriculture and irrigation (Middle East)
and on and on
2007-09-12 05:55:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think that they didn't?
There is a difference between not having something and not wanting something. Why don't you want free energy? You probably do, but it hasn't been invented yet.
2007-09-12 05:52:36 · answer #7 · answered by buffytou 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you asking like why did the Aztecs not have i-pods and there is not satellite dishes and big screen t.v.s at Stonehenge?
2007-09-12 05:54:35 · answer #8 · answered by Michael G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they don wan 2 be lazy..they wanted 2 keep them active n healthy by doing al their works by themselves....
2007-09-12 05:58:24 · answer #9 · answered by Blossoms 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People dont like change!
2007-09-12 05:56:52 · answer #10 · answered by Tino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋