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NameDatePeriodPage#Mankind: The Story of Us AllEpisode 1: InventorsMankind: The Story of All of Us Episode 1: Inventors from The History Channel Series Mankind: The Story of All of Us History Channel episode description: On a unique planet, a unique species takes its first steps: Mankind begins. But it’s a world full of danger. Threatened by extinction, we innovate to survive – discovering fire and farming; building cities and pyramids; inventing trade – and mastering the art of war. From humble beginnings, we become the dominant creature on the planet. Now the future belongs to us.INTRODUCTIONAt the dawn of time the explodes into being. With it, every in our bodies, countless galaxies, enumerable stars, and around one of them, a blue planet, our .No other known planet has both an and liquid . The conditions needed for .How long after the universe begins is mankind born?The Rift Valley of East Africa was a fertile laboratory for what?Bonus: How long would a thousand pounds of meat feed a family of six?FIREWhat does mankind invent to be able to compete against the natural predators of Africa?Man’s ability to project , the key to controlling our world. We’ll spend the next hundred millennia perfecting that kill at a distance.What is the key to mankind’s survival?Better nutrition boosts the human . Over two million years, it more than in size, with trillions of connections. The most structure in the universe, letting us communicate, and love.Around years ago, a few hundred pioneers wander out of . The beginning of an extraordinary adventure.Over years, mankind settles the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and Europe. As we spread out. A slight shift in the Earth’s axis away from the sun the planet. Average temperatures drop up to . A third of the planet under .What do we devise to help keep us alive?In this frozen world, makes a great leap forward. turns caves into homes. We sharpen animal bones into the first , and make tailored for the first time.What is the most uniquely human invention? What becomes man’s best friend?As grips the planet, mankind pushes onward. Against all odds, we . Then, the planet starts to warm again. By the human population reaches .Four hundred generations ago, in the , a woman whose name we will never know nurtures into life the of humanity. Scientists call her: .Bonus: How much of the globe does water cover? FARMING/DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALSWhat idea gives birth to the world we live in today? Now an acre of land can feed a times as many people as hunting and gathering.A new crop conquers the globe: . From a single sixty-pound , seventy loaves of .By , farming reaches Southern England, creating a blueprint for the future: . Mankind’s first settled communities. And a new figure: … The first farm : pigs, sheep, goats, cattle.Taming and other animals is the key to the growth of our . But farming also opens up a new battlefront against mankind’s most enduring enemy: .Owning land gives birth to what new enemy? The birth of . One in ten skeletons from early farming fold show signs of . A farmer can expect to die years before our hunter-gatherer ancestors.Bonus: How tall are the average man and woman around 3,000 BCE?RISE OF ORGANIZED RELIGIONWith farming life comes another leap for mankind: new ways of and the beginnings of organized .What was Stonehenge? TRUE or FALSE. Belief in the afterlife inspires some of mankind’s greatest engineering projects.One the banks of the River Nile in , mankind builds one of the first great civilizations. Its greatest engineering feat: a vast tomb for the pharaoh , god-king of Egypt. The tallest man-made structure for the next years. Workers. No tools. No wheeled vehicles. Just soft chisels and saws.Who was one of the first and greatest engineers in the story of mankind? What was the key to most of the achievements of mankind? Developed 5,000 years ago in the , writing is an of the human brain.Hemiunu’s vision brings together a never seen before. It takes years and blocks of stone, each weighing more than a pickup truck lifted feet off the ground. Workers organized into gangs.In cemeteries around the pyramid, one in five of the workers shows evidence of serious from accidents.What is deep inside the pyramid? Bonus: What was the pyramid capped with? CITIES/TRADEAcross the Middle East, the first rise, a revolution in human life., today in modern Turkey. The city gives birth to two new keys to human progress: and . A new kind of man: the .TRUE or FALSE. Imdi llum trades in one of the rarest and most valuable materials of his day: iron. is the key to a new industry. When added to copper it produces . Strong, sharp, the metal that changes the face of for the next 2,000 years.Who was Imdi’s son?What was he bringing from the mountains of Iran and Afghanistan?Almost 4,000 years ago, traders like Imdi turned into something new. They literally make . Hundreds of Imdi’s on clay tablets survive.Trade and industry are forging new across the world. Amur a valuable cargo through bandit country.Traders spread across the world, connecting the Middle East to India, Europe, and beyond. But the trade in , and the struggle to it, now lead to the birth of modern .TUTMOSES IIIMegiddo, in modern day . April 16, 1457 BCE. Egypt’s new pharaoh, III. Young. Ambitious. Untested. Middle Eastern warlords have seized of the city of , the key to trade networks of the ancient world. troops. Officers. Regiments. Platoons. A new kind of army. Most are , farmers called up to arms, but also trained , fierce Nubian soldiers from modern day Sudan.Why was April 16, 1457 BCE important? Bonus: In the Bible, what will Megiddo give its name to?Mankind’s struggle for creates the world’s first great empires. Egypt’s Tutmoses III leads an army of 12,000 into battle for of the city of Megiddo.Egyptian record the turning point: the enemy headlong into Mediggo in fear.What do the rebel warlords hand over as hostages? Tutmoses III the Egyptian empire to its greatest size ever - square miles.From a species struggling to survive, mankind has unlocked the to controlling our destiny: , building , pioneering , and the art of . One man can now control the lives of . Man with the power of a .What is the new material that will transform our future? Amidst the of an unforgiving planet, most species will . But for one all the pieces will fall into place, and a set of will unlock a path for mankind to . ................
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