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Passage : The Science Book - Big ideas Simply Explained

The beginning of Science 600 BCE - 1400 CE (From page 18-19) The scientific study of the world has its roots in Mesopotamia. Following the invention of agriculture and writing, people had the time to devote to study and the means to pass the results of those studies on to the next generation. Early science was inspired by the wonder of the night sky. From the fourth millennium BCE, Sumerian priests studied the stars, recording their results on clay tablets. They did not leave records of their methods, but a tablet dating from 1800 BCE shows knowledge of the properties of right-angled triangles. Ancient Greece The ancient Greeks did not see science as a sperate subject from philosophy, but the first figure whose work is recognizablyb scientific is probably Thales of Miletus, of whom Plato said that he spent so much time dreaming and looking at the stars that he once feel into a well. Possibly using data from earlier Babylonians, in 585 BCE, Thales predicted a solar eclipse, demon...

Lesson 2 - Subject and Verb II

So, i had attended an english class at Thursday, 2nd of March. we had a listening exercise and also we were given a task to write a resume about what the speakers were talking about. The speakers were telling about a man named Cesar Chavez. He was a farm worker who encouraged another farm workers to fight over their freedom. At that time, people who work in a farm were very poor and not educated. They didn't get payed as much as their work. Chavez realized about the farm workers' condition that didn't get treated well, so he decided to form a farm worker's union that illegal for them.  By the time, he could encourage another farm workers and fought together against injustice. They didn't use violence to fight but they were demonstrating and marching to get world's attention. Finally, people who heard and agreed with them tried to help by join their boycott until they won over their right and got payed higher than before. They also got an approval to form an...