DD9 wants to know...

[Caropooh]

what the first thing built on earth was?

 

[marlynnp]

mud hut

 

[RobInBigKC]

Some would say that the first thing "built" on Earth was Eve. (Genesis 2:22)

-- Rob

 

[kejoda]

Some would say that the first thing "built" on Earth was Eve. (Genesis 2:22)

-- Rob

thats a good one!!!

 

[Nomi]

That depends, I think, on what you mean by 'built'.

Any structure made by humans? As in, our current speicies, **** Sapiens Sapiens? I would assume it to be a simple structure, most likely temporary as humans were nomads for thousands of years before they originally stated building permanent 'towns' in the fertile cressent (near egypt) about 10 000 years ago. This was prompted by the invention of agriculture, and was called the neolithic, or agricultural, revolution. These buldings would be basically mud huts, or even mud brick huts, built also using stone, wood, or even cow dung.

If you mean anything constructed by humans, again, predecessors of humans (what we evolved from) had been making stone tools hundreds of thousands of years before the first **** sapiens was even born. So the first human, or more correctly modern human (as species like **** erectus, or **** neanderthalensis, belong to th ****, or human, family tree.) So then, I would say simple stone or wood tools. (Stone hand axes from hundreds of thousands of years ago, from the predecesors of the human species, are very cool.)

And that's all I know without resorting to google, sorry. As for early structures that still remain today in a whole form? I'd have to look that up.

EDIT: Hmmm.... looks like the DIS boards does not like the scientific name for the human family. Very interesting. You all know it though, latin word for 'Same' or in this case 'us'. I think. Never took latin.

 

[cheerful chickadee]

with the way they're scattered around these days....probably a starbucks!

I'd go with mud hut also but that's just a guess

 

[shortbun]

Time to get out the map and show her Iraq. The first known civilization was the Mesopotamian civilization called Sumer. It was between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the south. Sumer became Babylonia and with Assyria formed the Cradle of Civilization in what's known as the Fertile Crescent. Before that, as someone else stated, humans were nomadic. My son is studying ancient civilizations and just did a pretty extensive research paper on Mesopotamia. Once in city building mode, their homes were one or two stories with a central coutyard. They built temples, moats, irrigation systems, the famed "Hanging Gardens of Babylon" and palaces.

 

[rwrocksme]

i always thought it was the ark....

 

[CindyCan]

You don't really "build" tools, so I was thinking fire pit.

 

[karynnix]

An altar to God by Cain and Abel

 

[SueM in MN]

I would tell her that no one really knows and ask what she thinks was the first thing.

 

[edcrbnsoul]

I think the oldest still standing structure is Stonehenge.

 

[tevagirl]

I'm sure it was a McDonalds.

 

[Virgo10]

Weren't the first humans hunter/gatherers? I think the first assembled item was probably a weapon.

My second choice would be a hand held calculator.

 

[disneynutt1225]

I'm sure it was a McDonalds.

Or a Starbucks.

 

[beckmrk04]

I would tell her that no one really knows and ask what she thinks was the first thing.

I second this. It'll get her thinking.

Or, go with Teva's answer: McDonald's.

 

[Caropooh]

I'm loving all the answers! McDonalds and Starucks had me ! I'm thinking what she meant was the first building because she said she was sure it wasn't standing anymore! I will show all these too her. I'm sure she'll like them and come up with more questions. She is very inquisitve child.

 

[Diva of Dragons]

I think I would just go with...That's a great question! Nobody knows!

 

[Diva of Dragons]

i always thought it was the ark....

Kidding, right?

 

[Mugg Mann]

It was either a parking meter, or Windows 100,000 BC Special Edition....