On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:19:05 -1000, pure kona wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:56:03 -0600, Arri London >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>blake murphy wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:31:13 GMT, l, not -l wrote:
>>>
>>> > On 20-Oct-2010, blake murphy > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:37:44 -0500, Andy wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> What I found astonishing/interesting about the abacus was you could do
>>> >>> math without having to write anything down in the process!!! You could
>>> >>> just see it as patterns at a glance!!!
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks to the Greeks for the invention!!!
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Andy
>>> >>
>>> >> the chinese invented the abacus, you ****ing dope.
>>> >>
>>> >> blake
>>> >
>>> > Not if you believe Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus
>>>
>>> o.k., maybe oopsie. the damned thing certainly got around, though. looks
>>> like a lot of independent invention going on.
>>
>>
>>As is true for most great ideas, such as the wheel, writing and
>>agriculture
>
> Agriculture was invented? Man early on was a hunter and gather and
> when society became more stationary, agriculture happened. I must not
> understand what kind of agriculture? If you mean irrigation- viaducts-
> no that was the Romans- still wondering...here. Taking produce to
> markets might have been Greek but in my mind that is not "inventing
> agriculture."
>
> aloha,
> Cea

i would day it's the other way around. agriculture (and particularly the
ability to store grain) made society possible.

your pal,
blake