Advanced Technology Dbq Essay

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In all seven documents, you can see all are struggling with struggle of not having enough tools or technology to complete their tasks. As you read these documents you can see that most of our of our technology would have helped make their lives much easier. Document one shows us that even without the advanced technology we have today we can still manage to survive on the little things we have. This plant did the tasks of several things while it still managed to be one. The “Maguey Plant” found in the valley of Mexico in the early 16th century handled the fourteen “advanced technologies” we have. As you can see also stated in document one cotton was only found in warmer, wetter climates known as the Olmecs and Maya, because of this it made …show more content…

He was one that wanted to be able to understand the movement of celestial bodies. He was always searching for someone who could explain it to him. In document five it talks to us about how it was a struggle to get from place to place with always being surrounded by water. The causeways they built are much like bridges in our time it connected them from water to shore. They only way you could reach houses in the great city or built on water was by their ‘boats’ which is also known as wooden drawbridges or by canoes. Many of their advanced technologies are very similar to ours. This document shows that very well. The next document known as document six displays to us how they kept record. They had many people doing many different things. They had people keep track of date and times. Others kept track of newborn babies and deaths. Another thing they kept track of was limits, boundaries, frontiers, provinces and villages and also field distributions. They also had priests keep track of temples and images and anything else dealing with the religion part of the process. Philosophers were incharge of tracking paintings, sciences and books. These people were also known as scribes. The way they kept their recordings was very