History of the Pierblock

Date	Description
Creation	Whilst Pierblock.com does not propose to support one religion over another, we could not overlook this reference as the first reference to Pierblocks on Earth. From Genesis 7:33 – “And Adam did set to building them their first home upon the Earth. And he did fashion blocks out of the earth and the water, and he set them in the sun, and they became hard and strong as the mountains. And he did set them upon the level ground, and layed upon them a floor of wood and straw, and walls and a roof. And when Eve did see their home, she said, “Surely, my husband, you have built us a home as sturdy and safe as the warm embrace of the Lord our God.”
Circa 3000 B.C	Ancient Sumerian temples, including the Ziggurat of Ur, are built upon giant block foundations.
Circa 600 B.C.	Archimedes proposes a new Temple to Athena, built upon large, trapezoidal stone blocks dug into the earth. He calls these blocks the perfect shapes. Poses the idea that the Earth rests upon such blocks, which support it in the firmament.
0 B.C.	From Luke 13:21 – “And leaving the Inn, they brought Mary to the corral, built of wood and set upon blocks dug into the ground. And there, she rested on blankets laid over the straw, and began the toils of birth.”
121	Seven ships leave Rome with building materials for a new Temple of the Caesars to be built in Londinium. The ships are caught in a heavy storm off the coast of Iberia, and are sunk. Amongst the materials (discovered in 1989 by Dr. Robert Ballard of the Wood’s Hole Oceanograpic Institute) are trapezoidal blocks of marble to be used in the foundation.
537	The finest church in the Christian world, Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) in Constantinople, is dedicated. It is the first Christian structure to use the Pierblock foundation.
975	Arabs introduce modern arithmetical notation to Europeans, making calculations much easier than they had been with Roman numerals. In the first text, a Pierblock is used as a means to teach three-dimensional coordinate in the new system.
1176	Students from Bologna found the famous medical school at Montpellier. The many buildings of the school utilize Pierblocks and cantilevered foundations.
1368-1644	The final form of the Great Wall of China was achieved during this period, knows as the Ming Dynasty. The Wall, originally built as protection from raging hordes of Huns, has a foundation of trapezoidal blocks set in the heavy clay of the region.
1400-1499	1400-1499 Incas turn the steep slopes of the Andes Mountains into arable land through terracing and retaining walls. The terraces (andanes) are covered with soil and topsoil carried up from the mountain valleys. The walls use stacked, trapezoidal blocks to support the terraces, and prevent settlement.
1630-1648	The Mogul emperor Shah Jahan ordered the Taj Mahal built after the death (1629) of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Designed by a Turkish architect, it was built (1630-48) in a walled garden with an oblong reflecting pool. The white marble exterior is inlaid with semiprecious stones, floral designs, and arabesques. The dome, 80 ft (24.4 m) high and 50 ft (15.2 m) in diameter inside, forms a bulb outside, tapering to a spire topped by a crescent. The octagonal tomb chamber is lit by light passing through intricately carved screens. The foundation is constructed of hundreds of hand-carved, trapezoidal granite blocks.
1709	Isaac Newton, 62, pioneer of mathematics and physics, is knighted by Queen Anne. His study, “Trigonometrics” uses the angles and dimension of a Pierblock to explain Trigonometry.
1889	The Eiffel Tower is built, designed by the French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) for the Paris Exposition of 1889. The tower is 984 ft (300 m) high and consists of an open iron framework on four trapezoidal masonry piers; these piers support four columns that unite to form the shaft.
1922	Bringing the Pierblock construction method into the 20th century, and built at a cost of $3 million, the Lincoln Memorial opens on the shores of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
1961	The Berlin Wall is built after Warsaw Pact members request that East Germany stop the tide of refugees escaping from East to West Berlin. The wall is built on top of an extensive foundation of pierblocks.
1988	The Berlin Wall, symbol of the chilly, decades-old division between East and West, begins to be dismantled piece by piece.

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