I was just wondering.
2007-11-03 11:41:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
As far as records go, I'd say property records. I'm a genealogist and spend a lot of time looking at records. Every country, every culture keeps track of who own what property. In the US, many records were lost due to fire, floods, other natural disasters and warfare during the Civil War. The first records which were re-established were always property records! People want to be able to prove that they own their land and governments want to know who they can tax! Marriage, birth and death records aren't nearly as important to people as being able to prove that they own their house/farm. They KNOW they were born, or that granny is dead and who they're married to. More important to have everyone recognize that your farm belongs to you.
2007-11-03 11:53:22 · answer #1 · answered by Annie D 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thoughtful question worth a star.
If you think about it, the most often recorded "fact" in history
is the date of the Birth of Jesus Christ - the year 0 -
and it is probably wrong.
This date is reflected in every calendar in the western world.
We live by it every day.
Historians know that Herod the Great died in the year 4 BC.
For the Gospel account to be correct about the risk to baby Jesus after Herod's decree threatening male infants with death, Jesus must have been born in 4 or 5 BC.
It's OK since history is full of errors and inconsistencies.
December 25th is not the known date of Jesus' birth (no one knows what day that really was), but the invented date serves just as well for a commemorative "holi"day on the calendar.
2007-11-03 12:28:59 · answer #2 · answered by Spreedog 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I also have a huge subject with any form of *relationship* that technological know-how makes use of.... there is not any *information* that that's precise and could easily verify the suitable or maybe come on the threshold of the age of human or animal.... As with something, that's all purely a an knowledgeable guess or a stab at nighttime.... I have no clue how previous the earth is, or what human beings recognized like back interior the day.... They discover previous bones and that they constantly desire to place an ape like face to it.... there is not any information that human beings recognized like that, purely that the bone shape became diverse.... it rather is even in information in on the instant's human beings.....human beings over look some keywords interior the Bible, alongside with God made vegetation, *each and each form AFTER their very own *, to me that states it became in existence already or at one time in the past the Genesis account of the international.... and different such key aspects point out as nicely.. i do no longer think of issues are made up or located by the devil or devil, what ever you would be able to call him, yet I do think of there is extra advantageous than meets the attention with existence..... merely my humble opinion..... go in peace... God bless
2016-12-15 15:36:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me too. Good question.
Without pondering overly long, I would off the top of my head guess that birth records would at least be somewhere near the top of the list.
An unsure,
Wotan
2007-11-03 11:47:59 · answer #4 · answered by Alberich 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably tax records, after all that is why writing and math was invented to keep track of what was paid to the king.
2007-11-03 11:50:08 · answer #5 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Good question my guess is... Astronomy.
2007-11-03 15:13:07 · answer #6 · answered by DC 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋