10 Things the Ancients Did Better than Us

[nForce]

Heck, even ancient war was better than our modern war. Fighting with swords, spears and arrows instead of guns and tanks, looks so much better.

fighting with sticks is even better. World will be a better place if sticks are the only weapon available.

 

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Rock cutting of kailasa temple

 

[Nilgiri]

What's with the Invading Muslim Kings View attachment 274980 Hell bent on Destroying the heritage of the Country they invade .
Some kind of inferiority complex View attachment 274979 I think ,they believed they were inferior to the invading cultures

Watch what you say bro....I agree with it BTW. I myself have very many long stories passed on to me by my family about what Malik Kafur and his army did to our temples....but I will not share here coz I will get banned. I am just glad he failed in the end.

 

[Grevion]

What's with the Invading Muslim Kings View attachment 274980 Hell bent on Destroying the the heritage of the Country they invade .
Some kind of inferiority complex View attachment 274979 I think ,they believed they were inferior to the invading cultures

For the Invading Muslims king back then Gems and jewelry were the real beauty along with the women they think were beautiful and should be in their harim. Knowledge and scientific advancements meant nothing to them and generally didn't believe in ideologies other then Islam.

 

[Kashmiri Pandit]

Watch what you say bro....I agree with it BTW. I myself have very many long stories passed on to me by my family about what Malik Kafur and his army did to our temples....but I will not share here coz I will get banned. I am just glad he failed in the end.

I posted a picture of Greater India and I got 3 negative ratings

 

[Nilgiri]

I posted a picture of Greater India and I got 3 negative ratings

I got banned a lot for saying some stuff too pretty kurtly. I no longer do so as a result. No negative ratings for me at least (yet!).

 

[Kashmiri Pandit]

I got banned a lot for saying some stuff too pretty kurtly. I no longer do so as a result. No negative ratings for me at least (yet!).

What happens when one gets Banned . If we get ban , does that mean we have no way to use that account again

 

[Stannis Baratheon]

fighting with sticks is even better. World will be a better place if sticks are the only weapon available.

Since it would be harder to kill, yes, it would be.

 

[Nilgiri]

What happens when one gets Banned . If we get ban , does that mean we have no way to use that account again

Well they wont permanently ban you (unless you do something very very bad which is pretty hard to do).

Normally the bans last a week or two weeks (depending how many times you got banned before/the reason why etc).

So more of a "suspension" I guess.

 

[Kashmiri Pandit]

Well they wont permanently ban you (unless you do something very very bad which is pretty hard to do).

Normally the bans last a week or two weeks (depending how many times you got banned before/the reason why etc).

So more of a "suspension" I guess.

Aye ! Aye ! You are also becoming creative

 

[haviZsultan]

@Kashmiri Pandit I do not agree that roads and concrete was better. They couldn't build anything of the scale of the towers we see in Dubai.

 

[Kashmiri Pandit]

@Kashmiri Pandit I do not agree that roads and concrete was better. They couldn't build anything of the scale of the towers we see in Dubai.

Ya ! But they did that with so many limitations while we are not bind like that

 

[Nilgiri]

Actually Roman concrete has some notable advantages over modern concrete (notably weather and fire resistance + strength/aging ratios).

It was just a lot more labour intensive to make....whereas nowadays we have changed the process to make use of the energy and more economical material sources we got....and accept some compromises.

Thats why many of their structures exist to this day. Their stonecrafting was also quite excellent, possibly second only to Egyptians and equalling Chinese, Mayans and Indians roughly.

 

[Godman]

Thanks to modern warfare, we can't see stuff like this

 

[TejasMk3]

Over 2,000 years ago, ancient people in the Levant were forging swords made of steel so advanced that blacksmiths would not come close to creating anything of equal quality until modern times. The metal was so strong that the swords could slice straight through objects made of other metals.

The steel, known as Damascus steel, was produced out of a raw material, known as Wootz steel, from Asia. Other materials were added during the steel’s production to create chemical reactions at the quantum level. It was first used around 300 BC, but was produced en masse in the Middle East between 1100 and 1700 AD.

The secret of making the Middle East’s Damascus Steel only re-emerged under the inspection of scanning electron microscopes in modern laboratories.

This is actually misleading.

"Damascus" steel was produced in South India and exported to west asia where it was made into swords and noticed by europeans, Much like "arabic numerals".

There were attempts to recreate the metal but did not achieve the same quality, leading to Indian wootz steel swords to be called "True Damascus" among sword makers.

History of Steel
Damascene Technique in Metal Working

"True" Damascene blades were made from wootz steel only. The Damascene (or water) pattern comes from a striated precipitation of Fe3C particles and not from folding and welding two kinds of material.

As far as we know today, the "true" damascene technique actually worked with a famous kind of steel, so called "wootz" which was produced in India for maybe a 1000 years in a kind of closely guarded monopoly. Wootz was rich in carbon (about 2%; there was a secret carburization technique) and the trick was to precipitate the surplus carbon in a pattern of fine FeC3 precipitates.

More detailed paper:
http://met.iisc.ernet.in/~rangu/text.pdf

“Wootz was the first high-quality steel made anywhere in the world. According to reports of travelers to the East, the Damascus swords were made by forging small cakes of steel that were manufactured in Southern India. This steel was called wootz steel. It was more than a thousand years before steel as good was made in the West.” -J. D. Verhoeven
and A. Pendray, Muse, 1998

What is Wootz?
Its Place in the History of Technology The school or college going student today may not be aware that India’s contributions and prowess in the making of iron and steel were amongst the most remarkable in the ancient world. Of course, many of them may have had the occasion on school tours to visit the imposing Qutb Minar Complex in New Delhi and to admire the splendid Gupta era Iron Pillar (ca 400-420 AD). It stands as a monument to a glorious Indian tradition in the field of ferrous metallurgy. The Iron Pillar, the earliest and the largest surviving iron forging in the world, is regarded as a metallurgical marvel because it has defied the laws of corrosion of iron even after so many centuries, earning the nickname, the ‘rustless wonder’.

However, the Iron Pillar is not the only testimony that there is to the skills of ancient Indian iron and steel metallurgy. There is another truly remarkable story that is not so well known.

This is the chronicle of the legendary wootz steel from India, which has long been a subject of much fascination around the globe, with many legends and accounts surrounding it. This book highlights the fact that India led the world in developing an impressive tradition more than two milennia ago of making high-grade steel in South India, known as wootz.

But what is this strange word, wootz?

The term was coined, when European travellers from the 17th century onwards came across the making of steel by crucible processes in Southern India in the present day states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Wootz was the anglicization of ‘ukku’, the Kannada word for steel. The fame of steel from India is well captured in the words of the Arab Edrisi (12th century) who commented that: ‘the Hindus excelled in the manufacture of iron and it is impossible to find anything to surpass the edge from Hinduwani or Indian steel’ Wootz steel has also become synonymous with Damascus steel since it was used to make the fabled Damascus swords.
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Historically speaking, much has been written about Indian wootz steel by the travellers from Italy, France and England. This is reviewed in Chapter 5 entitled ‘Crucible Steel and Indian Armoury: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century Accounts’. These provide evidence that wootz steel was made by crucible processes over a fairly vast geographical area of Southern India over nearly half the size of Europe in a large semi-industrial enterprise with shipments of tens of thousands of wootz ingots being sent to places such as Persia.

India was not only known during this period for its mastery in making the raw material of steel, but was also highly reputed for its swordsmithy as exemplified by accounts of the unsurpassed excellence of a swordsmith of Thanjavur.