Humans have always had the ambition to improve their lives. They desired their civilizations to grow and advance, so they initiated methods to make their lives easier. In addition, many of the greatest contributions were invented by ancient people; however, these inventions such as Gothic Cathedrals sometimes took a lifetime to finish. Stepping into the 21st century, almost everyone is living on the edge of technological and scientific advancements. Many breakthroughs of inventions and discoveries have been made by many great scientists whose purposes were to make our lives better than before. Surprisingly, ancient inventions had a powerful and indisputable impact on the modern world, as they stimulated progress from the past civilizations. In particular, the revolution of scientific breakthroughs of inventions and discoveries have changed the humans' ways of building, travel and discovery.
First of all, the inventions in design of Gothic Cathedrals have led to a new way in constructing buildings for the next builders' generation. Gothic Cathedrals were a century-long project in the 12th to 16th centuries in Europe because in these centuries "technology was rudimentary, famine and disease were rampant, the climate was often harsh, and communal life was unstable and incessantly violent" (Scott 90). In these hard conditions, ancient builders had faced a lot of difficulties in building Gothic Cathedrals because they wanted to build a church that was much larger than previously built, and had bigger windows to allow more light inside the cathedrals. Before building Gothic Cathedrals, builders made an overall plan, sought a location that was cleared, and needed a workforce which had essential skills and would be instructed (Scott 91). In addition, in order to create bigger windows for Gothic Cathedrals, builders devised a new way to make vaults which used heavy stones stacked on top of each other to create tall arches.