History of the Ancient World - # 8

[abe-no-seimei.livejournal.com]

History of the Ancient World
Tuesday 12:30-3:30 pm

Seimei was stock-still sitting at his table when class started, still feeling a bit under the weather. The blue butterfly flitted around the classroom to draw attention to the scroll stretched across the front of the blackboard.

What is the earliest known record of written mathematics in the ancient world and what were possible reasons behind it developing?

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[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce slides into a chair, staring blankly at the scroll for a few moments. She idly begins making notes and flipping through the history text, looking for references.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

[[Lee is absent as is locked up in his room hiding from Hathor!Janet. If he was in class, he'd take a guess at those ancient types that had all those clay tablets with marks on them for trade and such.]]

[persian-eunuch.livejournal.com]

*believes the answer is written artifacts from Egypt and Babylonia, but has to look it up*

[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

Draco begins writing notes on ancient Babylonia.

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

*still looking just slightly hungover John slides into a desk and props his head on one hands.*

Isn't there a theory that those cave paintings in France might have been a record of how many animals were in herd or something? That would be kinda mathish, wouldn't it? '10 horseish things over there plus 13 yakkish things over there equals dinner for a week?'

[other-logan.livejournal.com]

*daydreams and doodles*

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia mumbles something about 'to keep track of wheat in the store house' and then gazes off into the distance.

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna has a plate of lemon bars next to her, and a stack of "Vote for Alanna" stickers.