CLCV 2305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Roman Technology, Tiber, Chisel
25 Jan 2017
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Basic format vs wikipedia format: start by looking at wikipedia format, posted on culearn by friday at the latest. Dr. kelly quinn - humanities writing consultant: kelly. quinn@carleton. ca. Film from crete should be available by friday: question will be posted for 15 extra points on midterm, question probes both content and opinion of its usefulness. Geography is destiny: one of the great reasons for prosperity in canada, usa, russia, turkey (and a couple others) is grain production, water, heat, soil, geography means wealth or lack there of depending on resources. Every 5th year the romans took a senses: there were no taxes in antiquity the way we think of them now, the way the government got money was by having dependencies that paid tribute. Technology responds to what is needed by a particular society at particular time. Technologies were not developed because they were not seen as necessary, not because they were unable to: catchment/montreal slice.
