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<blockquote data-quote="Radagast" data-source="post: 72218871" data-attributes="member: 20522"><p>The Babylonians did OK in their base-60 system without an explicit zero.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Writing would be one of the big ones.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The wheel, lever, and grain are big too.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That might be the winner. We wouldn't have gotten far without the needle.</p><p></p><p>Some of the other inventions helped people get beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, but without the needle, even being a hunter-gatherer in a cold climate would have been impossible.</p><p></p><p>Here are some from about 12,000 years ago:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN00159/AN00159160_001_l.jpg?width=400" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Radagast, post: 72218871, member: 20522"] The Babylonians did OK in their base-60 system without an explicit zero. Writing would be one of the big ones. The wheel, lever, and grain are big too. That might be the winner. We wouldn't have gotten far without the needle. Some of the other inventions helped people get beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, but without the needle, even being a hunter-gatherer in a cold climate would have been impossible. Here are some from about 12,000 years ago: [IMG]http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN00159/AN00159160_001_l.jpg?width=400[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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