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When did writing originate?

Presumably, writing arose among the Sumerians in the interfluve of the Tigris and Euphrates around 3100 BC. e. This writing was adopted by the Babylonians and Assyrians (who, by the way, spoke a different language) and spread to the entire Middle East.

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Who made the first boat?

What would you do if, living by the water, you never saw or heard of a boat? You would probably want to swim across a river or go with the flow, and you would probably start looking for something that would keep you on the water. This is how, apparently, primitive man discovered that if you tie several bushes or tree trunks together and use a stick or branch as a pole or oar, you can swim across a lake or river. Thus the idea of a boat was born.

Such a boat, consisting of floating objects connected to each other, was a raft. But he was uncomfortable, because he could not move quickly and water was poured on him. Therefore, primitive man began to look for a more maneuverable means, so that water would not be poured into it. He came up with the idea of using a hollowed-out log as a boat. It could move much faster, and it did not let water through at all. But on such a boat it was impossible to transport as much as on a raft, and besides, it easily capsized.

Primitive man tried to improve the "hollowed out" boat. To increase speed, he made the bow and stern, gave the sides of the boat a convex shape for greater stability and leveled the bottom. Then he invented the keel and tried to raise the sides of the boat with planks. Meanwhile, those who still continued to float on rafts also began to improve them. They laid the floor on the rafts from boards, and for greater convenience and protection they built a platform on the raft (it was the ancestor of the deck). They built up the sides and lifted up the back and front sides of the raft. And the boat turned out, which later became an ark, or a flat-bottomed boat, or a junk (these are all types of flat-bottomed boats).

Over time, rafts and hollowed out boats began to have a lot in common. It was natural to combine the best qualities of each of them, depending on which boat was needed. So, we can say that the boats known to us today are the result of the development of both described ideas of primitive man.

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