A Short History of Western Civilization in one-thousand one-hundred and forty-five words and one paragraph
Thursday, June 7th, 2007100,000 years ago, mankind evolved from his apish forebears. For 95,000 he moped about and did nothing of particular note. Then the Mesopotamians invented writing, banking, and mathematics and built great ziggurats of mud brick. The Egyptians did them one better by building with marble and granite. (more…)