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The trebuchet was used to break into castles and forts. If they weren’t invented, there would probably be more castles and forts still standing today. Distilled Spirits were an innovation in alcoholic beverages. If they didn’t exist there wouldn’t be booze today. The vertical windmill was used to turn grindstones and generate power later on.Continue reading “History Lesson 60 TreBuchet, Distilled Spirits, Vertical Windmill, And Rudder”

1 Universities. Before the university, families hired teachers to teach their children and if the children didn’t like the teacher they would fire them. The university kept the children from firing the teachers. 2 Wine Press. The wine press stopped people from suffocating when trampling the grapes. It also made a cleaner and better wine.Continue reading “History Lesson 55: Four Inventions That Made An Impact On History”

Al Kindi was born in 801 AD, into a Bedouin tribe, and went to school to learn and got attracted to the House of Wisdom. He became the father of Islamic philosophy . When Islam conquered Persia, the people learned about China’s use of paper. That attracted Al Khwarizmi to the House of Wisdom, whereContinue reading “History lesson 50: Al Kindi, Al Khwarizmi, Al Razi, And Al Hazen”

If I could travel back in time I would go to the medieval times and put my brothers in a catapult and launch them into another country so they wouldn’t bother me anymore.

After Rome collapsed, the Roman people lost the way to make glass. People forgot it because they were to busy trying to support themselves. Also, some people recycled the Roman glass. Then they experimented with plant and wood ashes but they made a greenish or brownish colored glass that was thick.

My favorite invention is the waterwheel. I like it because they used it back then and they still use it today. People use them today on dams to make hydroelectricity.

An invention that I would like would be a generator that makes enough power to power itself and other things. So then it would make infinite power. My brothers would like it for charging rechargeable batteries for they’re Xbox controllers, and I would like it for my Lego technic battery packs.

Back in the old days, people were inventing all kinds of things like the axle, the gears, and the water wheel. When they put those three things together they made a mill. And with a wheel, an axle, and a big bucket, you can make the wheel barrow. Combining a winch, pully, and an axle,Continue reading “History Lesson 35”

I don’t like to do schoolwork. I do piano, English, Science, History, math, cursive, word of the week, spelling, fun book, saints book, times tables, and a few other things. What I hate the most it piano. I do 25 minutes of it everyday.

The Chinese invented the compass out of interest in Feng Shui. They later realized that it could be used for travel but didn’t do much with it. The Europeans got the compass from the Moslems and used it to discover America and prove that the world was a sphere and not flat.