Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt?

Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by dogma1138 on Saturday September 03, 2016 @05:19PM (#12421260)

What school do they teach that at? If we take the 2 most famous rivers then the Nile flows from south to north pretty much straight, and the Amazon flows from west to east by north east. It might have been a long time since I was in elementary school but I never heard of "rivers flowing south", could be a US thing since most of the large rivers in the US do flow southish.

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by kissickas on Saturday September 03, 2016 @05:23PM (#12421276)

I have no idea where I heard that fact - only remember "trivia" from friends in elementary school telling me that the Nile is the only river that flows north, daddy-longlegs are the most poisonous spiders but their mouths are too small to bite humans, etc.

I'm not sure if the anecdote in the beginning is a true one but it says it takes place in Hefei, so I'm not sure it's a particularly American piece of misinformation.

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by dogma1138 on Saturday September 03, 2016 @05:28PM (#12421301)

Don't know never heard that fact, especially considering that rivers that flow north in Europe are quite common since the norther part of Europe is still rebounding from the last large ice age and it's overall at a lower elevation than southern Europe where you also get the large mountain ranges.

So famous rivers like the Sine, Elbe, Oder etc. all flow "north".

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by FreeFull on Sunday September 04, 2016 @12:43AM (#12422768)

Vistula too. It might actually be harder to find major rivers that flow "south".

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by Jedd on Sunday September 04, 2016 @07:12AM (#12423759)

Aside: ages back I asked an arachnologist friend about the origin of this myth.

As far as he could determine, some researcher was once asked on some random TV interview what the most poisonous spider was, and responded that no one knew, and that it may well be the daddy long legs. From that an entire generation of internet consumers now believe they are.

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by chrisabrams on Saturday September 03, 2016 @06:56PM (#12421663)

I was taught that rivers flowed south. When I asked my 3rd grade teacher why the Nile flowed North, she said that's impossible.

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by ajmurmann on Saturday September 03, 2016 @07:30PM (#12421786)

What school was that at?

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by finid on Saturday September 03, 2016 @11:01PM (#12422443)

You knew about the Nile in 3rd grade, in a school in the US of A. Wow!

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by ttam on Saturday September 03, 2016 @08:20PM (#12421953)

it does seem a US thing http://geography.about.com/b/2006/06/28/do-all-rivers-flow-s...

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by protomyth on Sunday September 04, 2016 @12:43AM (#12422764)

Probably not at a North Dakota school since we have a north running river (The Red River) and the continental divide which gives a nice rivers going every which way demonstration.

Made for a whole mess with the flooding of Devils Lake which put a south town[1] in danger and forced the planners to deal with Canada because of overflow.

1) they literally had security while they built a concrete damn for fear someone would create their own outlet.

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by wangchow on Saturday September 03, 2016 @07:03PM (#12421691)

Heat flows from a warm system to a cold system.

That was random thought lol. But, I thought they thought it flowed backwards because their direction was backwards. Similar to how electron charge is negative so it flows backwards cnceptually.

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