¶ … discoveries, inventions, and proliferations of ideas prior to 500 B.C.E. While some of those inventions simply make our lives today easier and more efficient, there are others that have changed the world in dramatic ways. This paper will explain five inventions prior to 500 CE, and will explain how those inventions have altered the course of history. One major invention prior to 500 CE was that of the wheel, thought to be invented prior to 7000 BCE. The oldest wheel discovered was located in Mesopotamia, and dates to 3,500 BCE, but evidence suggests the use of the wheel far before this time. The original wheel was made by the Sumerians, and consisted of planks of word joined together. Over time, the wheel was improved by the Egyptians, and the Greeks (Katsiavriades, 2004). Obviously, without the wheel, the world today would be far different. The wheel allowed for faster and easier travel, increased agricultural production, increased carrying capacity, and increased military strength. The wheel was vital in the spreading of cultures and ideas, as well as farming and relocation in the ancient world,...
The earliest records of irrigation date back to ancient Egypt, in 5000 BCE. By 2100 BCE, elaborate systems were used to transfer water from the Nile River through a 12-mile channel that flowed to Lake Moeris (Katsiavriades, 2004). Irrigation was vital to those societies in areas of low water supply. Without irrigation, farming on the grand scale we see today would have been impossible. Since farming still makes up so much of not only our income, but also as a supply of food, and since without irrigation, individuals would have to travel long distances to obtain water supplies, the invention of irrigation helped to make most civilizations prosper and survive.
District of Columbia v. Heller District of Columbia vs. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) represents the U.S. Supreme Court's single biggest intervention in Second Amendment jurisprudence. The case was one which had been deliberately manufactured by a small cadre of ideologues: the case was organized and funded from the first by Robert Levy, a Senior Fellow with the libertarian Cato Institute. In 2010, Levy would address his own achievements in getting
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Intellectual property can be a difficult concept to define because, at its heart, it describes property rights to intangible things, such as creations of the mind. Because this involves concepts rather than physical property, for years the courts and legal system did not extend property protection to these types of creations. This can be further complicated by the fact that some intellectual property has a physical, or tangible, component. For
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