How did ancient civilizations get the engineering knowledge required to build impressive structures?
In: Engineering
Mostly trial and error. Keep in mind we’re only seeing the ancient structures that are still standing. There undoubtedly would’ve been countless structures that collapsed or deteriorated and were disassembled. They would’ve started off with small structures and followed the concepts of the structures that lasted on larger and larger skills. Over time they developed/learned geometry which would’ve made it easier to design these structures with some understanding of what sort of strength they had.
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