For the past week the only two things I have used my computer for (other then this blog) is for research on Native Americans and 'tallest buildings in the world' (in the order they were built)... It is for math class and we are doing a project on structural height progression over time. For the project the first 'tall' structures that are being used are the pyramids in Egypt (the 'step pyramid' and the 'great pyramid'). After that the next building we are using was built in 1300 in Lincoln, England. That building was built almost 3850 year later and it is only 13 meters taller then the Great Pyramid. That and it's spire collapsed in 1549 reducing it height greatly. So that got me thinking was it so hard to beat the Egyptians at building taller structures? Was it just because that technology got lost? or was there so other issue?
Then of course I had to tie this back to Native Americans. And I thought 'what are Native Americans best at building?' First thought was tepees. And then it was 'that is really cliche because you can't compare an entire race together to come up with a conclusion. That is like saying all white people speak English or all people in Mexico like burritos (couldn't think of any other comparisons). It just doesn't work. I have no idea why I thought of a tepee, I mean cause they also built igloos, long houses, etc. So they did a lot of building it just wasn't 62 meters tall, built out of limestone and pointy.
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