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Oil rocks my socks!!!

Created by arik7 on Mar 2, 2011

Last updated: 03/03/11 at 08:47 AM

• 347AD
  Mar 2, 2011

  Chinese reported to have drilled holes in ground using bamboo to extract oil

• 325 B.C.
  Mar 2, 2011

  Alexander the Great used flaming torches of petroleum to scare his enemies.

• 6th Century B.C.
  Mar 2, 2011

  The army of Kir II used Absheron oil in weapons of fire to invade castles and cities

• 100AD
  Mar 2, 2011

  Plutarch described oil bubbling from the ground near Kirkuk in present day Iraq

• 1273
  Mar 2, 2011

  Marco Polo recorded visiting the Persian city of Baku, on the shores of the Caspian Sea in modern Azerbaijan, he saw oil being collected from seeps for use in medicine and lighting

• 1618
  Mar 2, 2011

  Italian traveller, Pietro Della Valle, spoke about great amounts of black oil around Baku; it was cheap and brought lots of income to the shah every year.

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