Which country (Civilization) invented these things?
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In 400 BCE, Persians invented ice cream. The ancestor of the cookie is said to have come from Persia. The first windmill had vertical shafts and were reportedly built in Persia around the 7th century AD. \n\nAlcohol was invented (for medical uses) by Razi the Persian scientist. Algebra(Jabr as you said) was invented by Khwarizmi and Khayyam, both Persians.
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Educated about them? I invented some of them! :)
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http://www.classaxe.com/smarties/invented.html
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Christopher Columbus invented the cigar.  Cigarettes were originally made by poor people who took cigar butts off the street and rolled them together.
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A version of soccer was infact invented by the Mayas.  The actual formal game we are now used to was invented in England.
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The "IN" civilization of its day (about 4000 B.C. it is said)! Great dances, written language, innovative societal structure... a people ahead of their time. Possibly the true founders of 'civilization'. They seem to have arrived on the scene fully developed (economically, politically, intellectually) and certainly established themselves in myth and history as the "Ancient Ones", even to those civilizations we consider ancient. Hmmmmm.... where DID they come from?
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Nobody INVENTED them. Well, I guess you could say God did, but there is no way to tell. Nobody knows.\n\nYou need seeds to make a tree, but you need a tree to make a seed. Metaphorically, you could call God a tree and we are seeds. You could then say that trees came first because God created us.
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The romans didn't have the a place for zero. Zero was invented by indians (from india) and is now called Arabic Numbers.
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We invented the concept of pi before the Greeks. Using higher math, we were able to create a perfect circle in three dimensions. Scultping the columns only required a complex circular leveling device using water which we invented in the 8th dynasty.
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Around 600,000 years old. Maybe even older.
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The first actual calculating mechanism known to us is the abacus, which is thought to have been invented by the Babylonians sometime between 1,000 BC and 500 BC
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Ancient Greece & teacups.\nthese two are totally unrelevant. The first teacups were invented and used by chinese and japanese, and they were introduced to europe and america by explorers who have reached china and japan. \nAncient greeks had large glasses made of stone or metal(bronze, copper, silver, gold mostly), which greatly resembled beer glasses. They used these glasses for drinking anything, from water, to wine and soup.
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Europeans founded America in 1492, but they were really late in the game. Vikings came earlier, and surely the Eastern Asians before that, but we have no documentation of a date.
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They invented pyramids.\nThey invented paper.\nThey invented beer.\nTutmos kicked nubian butt.
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Interesting question.\nThe oldest country as we understand the term today would be San Marino (310AD). As far as civilizations are concerned there are a few who would compete: Japan (first sings of civilization around 10000 BC), China with the same term. Rome and Greece are much younger.
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there may have been other things on them long before humans.  There mat be things on them ling after humans.
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Indoor plumbing, the transistor (without which there would be no digital electronics), plastics.  I would agree with the "wheel" answer, except that it came around long before the engineering profession and was probably invented by some caveman.  You could also include scientific principles that have been discovered and subsequently led to great engineering feats.  For instance, Maxwell's Laws of Electromagnetism (the principle on which all wireless devices work), Bernoulli's Principle (the basis for airplane wing design) and so on.