Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow from the Taurus and Zagros mountains. In the Persian gulf delta marshes ancient Sumerians make canals to irrigate for agriculture. To protect their lives they raise mud brick mounds. All this combined effort enables early cities to flourish.
All that is involved in river Nile clearance for ships encourages a sense for skilful use of resources. Early Mediterranean seafarers are careful to protect valuable goods in trade between Thonis Heracleion Alexandria and venturous Hellas. From this ardent windswept effort comes effective transport of produce between coasts. Handling all these materials and making safe to ports provides basic competence for early cultures.
The basic procedures learned from the Mediterranean the Romans transfer through Europe. Able to skilfully cut canals they move wares between cities. With the facility to channel water to provision growing populations they are operating with basic physical competence. All the operations acquired through all of this come to provide foundational resources for early European cities.
What we are dealing with here can assist us in physical science. Our actions over oceans and through atmospheres is direct experience real dynamics. From the ocean swell we have direct connection to the rotating earth. The influence of the atmosphere is how we sample solar and stellar events.
