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Old 07-12-2008, 02:39 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jowey View Post
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Those civilizations thrived because of their agricultural process where ours fails in the same environments. It could be created elsewhere and adapted to other environments. This is lost ancient knowledge......
Now understand their practices are specifically suited to that environment. What works one place might well bring disaster elsewhere. Ancient agricultural prctices in Mes'O''potamia turned the whole region into a desert wasteland.
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