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... called this land Mesopotamia- " the land be- tween the rivers . " So vital is irrigation to Mesopotamia that an ancient Baby- lonian curse was : " May your canal be filled with sand ! " Many of the ancient laws dealt with canals and ...
... called this land Mesopotamia- " the land be- tween the rivers . " So vital is irrigation to Mesopotamia that an ancient Baby- lonian curse was : " May your canal be filled with sand ! " Many of the ancient laws dealt with canals and ...
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... called a tortoise . The fully developed Assyrian belfry had six wheels and a ram working through a hole in front ... called Indo - European . The horsemen who conquered Iran and India called them- selves Arya , " noble ones . " Therefore ...
... called a tortoise . The fully developed Assyrian belfry had six wheels and a ram working through a hole in front ... called Indo - European . The horsemen who conquered Iran and India called them- selves Arya , " noble ones . " Therefore ...
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... called On the Arts of the Romans . About a century later , the German monk Theophilus wrote a longer book , which drew upon Eraclius and other sources and which was called A Treatise on Various Arts ( Schedula diversarum artium ) ...
... called On the Arts of the Romans . About a century later , the German monk Theophilus wrote a longer book , which drew upon Eraclius and other sources and which was called A Treatise on Various Arts ( Schedula diversarum artium ) ...
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One The Coming of the Engineers | 1 |
Two The Egyptian Engineers | 18 |
Three The Mesopotamian Engineers | 46 |
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