The Creations of Mankind (для учащихся 9-х классов, углублённое изучение предмета)


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THE CREATIONS OF MANKIND Teacher : A.E.Gracheva School № 2045 Moscow, 2014 INTRODUCTION The lifestyle we enjoy today is a result of countless ideas and inventions, which have taken many centuries of man’s history to develop MAN MAKES FIRST STEPS ON THE ROAD OF PROGRESS the 1 - st step • the use of fire the 2 - nd step • the 3 - rd step • the invention of the wheel * * by some unknown prehistoric genius MAN BEGINS CATTLE BREEDING AND CULTIVATING LAND efficient weapons to hunt large animals for food discovery of how to plant crops and gather seed from wild plants the invention of special tools for breaking up the ground the help of domestic animals in pulling man’s primitive plough the invention of writing: from primitive drawings the earliest forms of from the counting of days and months to the counting of cattle and sheep MAN FINDS A NEW INTEREST IN EXPLORATION exploration of the world * the invention of printing opportunity to read and to own books * the voyagers of the Renaissance discovered the existence of many new and strange lands with unknown animals and plants the writing of more books MAN MAKES PROGRESS IN INDUSTRY AND TRANSPORT the 17 - th century a development of science the 18 - th century the invention of the steam engine, the condenser and piston the 19 - th century the age of the machine, the invention of electricity, the manufacture of cars MAN CREATES DANGEROUSLY POWERFUL INVENTIONS the construction of the airplane awareness of atomic energy and nuclear weapons the inventions of television, computers, spacecraft, engineering MAN LAYS FOUNDATIONS FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT Modern man can go into an era of even greater discoveries, and all nations can benefit from the knowledge left to us by earlier generations All the discoveries today are based on the ideas of men who lived before