Hi Friend! May I request you to lay back and make yourself comfortable because now it’s time for some ‘time travel’ and understand how did the early man travel. Enjoy!
Thud! Thud!! Thud!!! “We better get out of the way,” said the mother mouse to the little mouse, “the humans are on the move I think”.
Swoosh! Swoosssh!! Upon hearing the same, Mr Birdie began to huddle the birdlings together and said to Mrs Birdie, “the humans are on the move!”
Yikes! screamed the little fish in the river, upon being hit by an oar like pole. It said, “these humans, hurt others when they move!”
The early man, just like us, mostly travelled by road and at times by air or water! According to the theory of human evolution, our journey towards the current homo-sapiens that we are now started with Lemurs. Then we evolved to Orangutans to Gorillas to Chimpanzees to the current up-right form that we are. Long hands and claws, bent spine and tails did help the early man travel through air (swinging from one tree to another) or road (mostly through jungles and forests). They did cross the streams and rivers or swim to reach better places.
Unlike the present man, they most travelled from one place to another either in search of food or in search of safer places to live (just as how Paleo describes his feelings in the lesson Stoneage [part 1 and 2] in our book Reading Comprehension [vol. 13] book who clearly talks about how the elderly men in the group started looking for safer place whenever there was floods or fires). So, whenever a calamity struck (including drought), all they did was to look for safer places and just relocate.
The discovery of the wheel rightly called the mother of all inventions, I understand changed everything. The early man then used carts to move from one place to another. They then began taming animals to help them migrate from one place to another in search of food and shelter. As they evolved, they learnt to use wind and sail to faraway places. Over the last 200 - 300 years, they learnt to add engines (steam engine, petrol engines, gas engines, electrical engines etc.) to make travel and transport easier.
Lucky the early men and women were as they did not have to worry about carrying suitcases full of textbooks, clothes, accessories and gadgets. Their parents didn’t have the need to search for a charging point while looking to settle down in a place 😊. And the kids didn’t have to go by a school bus as schools in the present form didn’t exist then! 😊 😊 😊.
Friends, I just can’t imagine finding new routes by swinging from tree to tree. If you agree and are willing to explore such new routes, just let me know!
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