Advanced Civilization - Deepstash

Advanced Civilization

Over the course of time, the residents of Jericho began cultivating plants and even developed an irrigation system to tackle large harvests. To tackle attacks from neighbouring places and raiders, they built a wall in 8000 BCE, the oldest known protective wall.

They even build a watchtower, whose shadow acted as a way to mark the summer solstice, which may have had significance in those days.

48

137 reads

CURATED FROM

IDEAS CURATED BY

phillipmcclain

The Greeks were right.

The idea is part of this collection:

The Mind of Leonardo da Vinci

Learn more about history with this collection

Leonardo da Vinci's creative process

How to approach problem-solving like da Vinci

The importance of curiosity and observation

Related collections

Read & Learn

20x Faster

without
deepstash

with
deepstash

with

deepstash

Personalized microlearning

100+ Learning Journeys

Access to 200,000+ ideas

Access to the mobile app

Unlimited idea saving

Unlimited history

Unlimited listening to ideas

Downloading & offline access

Supercharge your mind with one idea per day

Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.

Email

I agree to receive email updates