Historical Examination of Creativity.

What traits make them creative?

To me, the 'brain' is the thing that has to be functioning when it comes to a word of 'creative'. What I mean by that is, innovators and inventors from the old days were the ones who used their brains A LOT when it comes to invent something new to be use by people easily. We should be thankful to them, without them, probably we're still cooking with bonfire instead of stove or oven and so more. 

One of all words that comes out from my mind is 'think out of the box'. Okay, maybe they felt curiosity for the first where they wanted to know how 'something' unusual could be happened and they explore, such like Sir Isaac Newton been wondering with how did the apple fall from the tree and so on. And he started feels curiosity and started to think out of the box. 

Next is 'imagination'. Without imagination, there'll no be something has made. With imagination, the inventors and innovators will imagine on how 'something' would happened? How can 'something' works? and so on. So, from that they develop more ideas.

There's nothing impossible to 'believe' in what you do. The inventors and innovators from the old days have the guts to take challenge or risk on what they do. And from that, they learn their mistakes at the same time so from that, they invent something new with less mistakes and gain their creativeness.

What environmental conditions existed?

The pictures above there show a few tools from Neolithic period. Can you imagine how people from the olden days faced the world with those hard times? This is show how they used their brain fully on how to survive with made this tools to use for hunting and build something.  

Other than that, a lot of inventors and innovators built buildings as for 'shelter' for  their country protection. And from that, it makes me think that another environment condition existed was unsafe and chaos. As for an example is the Great Wall of China -->

  

The construction process for the Great Wall of China began in 221 B.C. in the time of Emperor Qin. It used to keep hostile northern barbarians out of Qin's empire. The Great Wall is not just a wall. Other defensive works such as forts, passes, and beacon towers were built along the Wall to house auxiliary soldiers, store grain and weapons and transmit military information. But the main point here is to protect the Chinese Empire. But now, the world has completely changed and a few sections of the Great Wall have become some of the greatest tourist attractions in the world.

*While in Islam Society where included Islam's expansion of historical creativity, it's all about  religion, art, architecture, science and literature. 

• Crafts in Islamic Architecture
• Islamic Arts and Architecture

                                     The Arch Column of Masjid Wazir Khan

What was the process of creativity?

As I explained the whole thing above is also the process of creativity. 'Curiosity', 'Explore' and 'Think out of the box' as they generate and develop new ideas then it leads to 'imagination' where they need to think of something unique for their inventions. And includes the environment too, where creativity could happen in some oof environmental conditions such like for shelter or protection, living (where people need to survive), religions, politics, interactions or society and many more.

Last but not least, we need to appreciate all of these things and the inventors too. Without them, we're not even living in this new era.