Civil Engineering Technology

Japanese: 土木技術 - どぼくぎじゅつ

Civil engineering is said to be the technology with the oldest history. When humans first appeared and began to live, they first had to excavate the land in order to build pit dwellings, and they would have had to carve primitive paths and build wooden bridges to walk on. When agriculture began, irrigation and drainage facilities became indispensable, and large-scale tombs were also built as symbols of power. It is no exaggeration to say that civil engineering has been at the heart of technology since ancient times, and civil engineering is often referred to as "the technology of technologies."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

土木技術はもっとも古い歴史をもつ技術といわれる。人類が登場して生活を営み始めるにあたって，竪穴住居をつくるにしてもまず土地を掘削する必要があったし，歩いていくためには原始的な道を切り開いたり，木の橋を架け渡さなければならなかったであろう。農耕が始まればそのための灌漑や排水のための施設が不可欠となり，さらに権力の象徴としての大規模な墳墓などもつくられている。古代以来技術の中心は土木技術であったといっても過言ではなく，土木技術はしばしば〈技術の中の技術〉とまでいわれる。

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