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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat date back further and are aqueducts by any other name, unless you want to nit-pick. Mig
by Zenst 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat date back further and are aqueducts by any other name, unless you want to nit-pick. Might be that equally as long ones existed in pre-history. Certainly when you are looking at 1000BC-3000BC as timeframe upon these.
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The longest Qanat is https://en.mehrnews.com/news/108436/3-millenia-old-Zarach-qanat-to-get-World-Heritage-status https://en.mehrnews.com/news/108436/3-millenia-old-Zarach-qa... "The three thousand year old qanat is of 120 kilometers length and earlier in 2005 was enlisted in Iran’s Cultural Heritage List."
Which would pre-date year 90 A.D. by a fair bit.
I'd say that a Qanut is an Aqueduct by any other name.
- black6 7y agoWhen I was in Afghanistan I was fascinated by the long lines of circular dirt mounts that dotted the landscape[0]. I knew of qanats from reading the Dune series by Frank Herbert, but had never seen an example. It wasn't until a few years after I was in Afghanistan that I realized what the long lines of what I thought were ancient battlements were--the access shafts for the qanats that provided water to the people in that high desert. Sadly I hear that the art of constructing and maintaining the qanats is being lost, and the qanats have been destroyed (or damaged beyond repair) in some cases by the expansion of the bases of occupying forces. 0: https://arcg.is/0m8ujr https://arcg.is/0m8ujr
- cheez 7y agoPerhaps the article is referring to the ancient world of a certain pigmentation?
- 13of40 7y agoJust to be clear, and maybe I'm reading your question wrong, but are you saying you consider ancient Romans to be "white" but ancient Persians to be something other than "white"?
- asa_ho 7y agoDo you not?
- 13of40 7y agoWell, I don't have any photographs of their ancient ancestors, but here's a picture of the Iranian President meeting with the Italian President: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-35397885 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-euro... I don't know about you, but I don't see a striking difference in their skin tone. I'm guessing that the grandfather poster was really trying to say something about culture rather than pigment.
- cheez 7y agoI don't consider anyone to be different in those ways but I never learned about Persian philosophy or history in any class.
- Zenst 7y agoIn terms of The World; Human is granular enough. After all, Romans usurped many of its citizens from many parts of the World thru the Military avenue - https://www.romae-vitam.com/roman-citizenship.html https://www.romae-vitam.com/roman-citizenship.html I suspect that the author or his source has to fund or justify such expenseve ventures. Big grabbing bold statements that reach, help. Given the aqueduct's in design and name was of Roman origins. The longest Roman one found would qualify as the World's longest, so sure. However, aqueducts have existed by other names, and it is that basis I question the claim. But equally see how such a claim could be made. More a technicalities thing than any other divide, would be my take upon this.
- oh_sigh 7y agoYes, clearly modern day Jordan was filled with white people in Roman times.
- mymythisisthis 7y agoI think that we are fascinated with Rome because it resembles our own modern cities. The aqueduct provided water to peoples' private homes, to businesses, to bath houses that had steam rooms and heated pools, to public fountains.