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Posted by: pyderi 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Way before in time, like in 2300 years ago times must have been pretty rough. Imagine you and your family living in those small houses in a crowded village. That's right, people before had a lot of space but they still lived all together in crowded places so that they could survive. No heating and the kitchen, living room and bed room all into the

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Endoscopy2 months, 3 weeks ago

Different areas had different types of houses. Some were build out of wood, sticks plastered with mud, skins, as well as what was shown. I have often wondered about how it would have been to live back then. I'm glad I only have to wonder. People in different places in the world still do that. A backward part of some countries and other areas where the whole country is backward.
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  CRYMTYPHON2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  I saw a masai hut once; it was built entirely out of cow dung. We didn't believe it would hold up, but the owner got up on the roof and jumped up and down; it didn't shake.
  
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    koranagirl2 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    Actually, those adobe buildings are made from cow dung, or at least were. I saw a show on it and the builder mixed cow dung with clay and straw, then added water and up went the house. The cow dung apparently is an important component that gives the material very high strength, somewhat like a natural concrete.
    And the builder assured the audience that the mixture did not smell after it binded together and dried.
    High in strength and with a very high R value (insillation value measure,) it is a quite inexpensive way to build.
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Dicax_Maximus2 months, 3 weeks ago

Inhibitions must have been somewhat more relaxed.....
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Will13132 months, 3 weeks ago

way ahead of their time.. looks like ultimate in green building....
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  Dicax_Maximus2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Will1313 - I do believe that it's called moss !!!!
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  LMAO......
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markoller2 months, 3 weeks ago

These were substantial stone structures, definitely not huts. Each house could have served as a fortification.
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  koranagirl2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  I don't know about that. People had spears and bow and arrow for a long time. When our family visited ancient ruins in Ireland and the UK what they did to protect themselves is they built "ring forts" around small groupings of homes, and then there was a moat around the ring fort and a hidden canoe for access to the island. Some of these "ring forts" also had a circle of tree trunks with pointed tops to keep people from scaling the fencing around the homes. apparently these worked quite well until the invention of the musket in the 1700's.
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BronxBomber2 months, 3 weeks ago

It looks cleaner than my house!
j/k
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1-2-Oscar2 months, 3 weeks ago

You left out the fact that peasants often shared their living space with domesticated animals. the result was that their own odor was indistinguishable from that of the livestock.
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Dicax_Maximus2 months, 3 weeks ago

sandra4fun1 - SPAM - Reported & negged...
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EDWARDIII2 months, 3 weeks ago

Having shared my living space with horses I can testify it's not that bad. Pigs can be annoying. You can get used to the smell, but the noise is awfull. Chickens are as foul as they are fowl.

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