The document discusses human technological developments from 4000 BC to the present. It notes several key inventions from early civilizations like writing, pottery wheels, and domestication of animals. It describes how innovations like the wheel and agriculture allowed communities to expand. The document then outlines technological advances throughout history, including inventions like coins, the Greek alphabet, railroads, and modern items used daily. It concludes by asking the reader to consider what they use and what may be invented in the future.

1. Marineta Papaheimona
Sia Stamatopoulou
C5 2nd Experimental Junior High School of Athens
Teacher : Dimitra Dertili
2016 - 2017

2.  Anthropocene is a concept that isn’t officially
accepted by all scientists. It is a proposed
epoch starting from the beginning of man’s
impact on Earth and humanity in the present
and the future. Basically it is a way to count
how much humans have affected the
environment and other humans during their
presence on planet Earth.

3. 4000BC – 1000 AD

4. During this time many great inventions
were made.
 The first form of writing was invented.
 Domestication of horses in the western
Eurasian Steppes.
 Invention of potter’s wheel in Sumer.
 In South America, people started to
farm chili peppers, beans, sweet
potatoes, and cotton.
 In Central America , people started to
grow avocados.
 the Sumerians created a system of
writing that was for enumerating –
counting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_millennium_BC
http://www.fsmitha.com/time/bc1.htm
http://quatr.us/timelines/3000bc.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture

5.  Due to the invention of writing , history started
to be recorded.
 Furthermore, agriculture spread widely across
Eurasia.
 Due to the better living conditions the population
was doubled, from 7 to 14 million people .
 Finally, the domestication of the horse helped.
people very much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_millennium_BC
http://www.fsmitha.com/time/bc1.htm
http://quatr.us/timelines/3000bc.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture

6.  First evidence of wheeled
vehicles.
 Tin is discovered.
 Metals are used for tools
and weapons.
Civilizations in West Asia
started bending metal.
 The desertification of the
Sahara desert begins.
http://www.timemaps.com/history/europe
-3500bc
http://archaeology.about.com/od/neolithi
c/qt/Wheeled-Vehicles.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_millenni
um_BC

7.  Wheeled transportation had a
significant effect on human
economy an society. It was an
efficient way to carry goods to
long distances.
 Communities could expand as
there was no need to live close
to food production areas.
 Wheels in combination with the
domestication of suitable draft
animals such as horses and oxen
lead to the construction of
roadways.
http://www.timemaps.com/history/europe
-3500bc
http://archaeology.about.com/od/neolithi
c/qt/Wheeled-Vehicles.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_millenni
um_BC

8.  In South and Central America ,
people started to farm squash
and corn and beans.
 People in North America begun
to use pottery.
 People started to use shoes
and gloves.
 The Clepsydra and a type of
trumpet were invented.
 In Polynesia people started
covering long distances with
ships.(Polynesian navigation)
http://quatr.us/timelines/2000bc.htm#top
bar
http://quatr.us/timelines/2000bc.htm

9.  The Chinese invented the
dictionary and the kite.
 Invention of the Greek
alphabet, the first alphabet
with vowels.
 The first railway is made.
Transportation is marked
by State – built roads and
canals.
 The Pythagorean theory is
made.
 People started to use coins,
instead of exchanging
animals and other products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/10th_century_BC

10.  The Pythagorean theory
was significant as it is
used even in our days to
solve math problems.
 The use of coins instead
of animals and other
materials improved the
economy of many
civilizations .
 The transportation was
improved , thus the life
of people became easier.
http://oldestcoins.reidgold.com/
article.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/w
iki/10th_century_BC

11.  God and religion are more
important than logic and
take its place in society.
Everything is related to God
and the Bible, everything is
approved by God and the
Bible.
 The ancient Chinese and
the Nordic countries
(Vikings) improve their
ships.
 A lot of blood is mixed with
the ground due to
numerous wars.
https://www.google.gr/search?q=nordic+ships&b
iw=1366&bih=626&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=
X&ved=0ahUKEwjnrrOU65vSAhUEUhQKHbr0BK8Q
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12. 1600 AD- 1950 AD

13.  Gutenberg
introduces
typography (1455)
 Portuguese,
Spaniards, Italians
and Chinese start
exploring the globe.
 Optics are improved.
 Art looks back to the
Ancient Greek
culture.
 https://sites.google.
com/a/dpsnc.net/sm
ith-7th-grade-
world-history/unit-
1-age-of-
exploration
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johan
nes-Gutenberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_history

14. A map displaying the age of discoveries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_cent
ury_BC

15.  More people read as the
price of books is decreased
(their number increases
drastically)
 New places are found. New
diseases affect society, new
products are used,
Christianity is expanded
and native residents of the
areas become slaves.
 People are inspired by the
big Greek philosophers and
stop some brutal and
violent actions. Culture
flourishes.
Raphael, the School of Athens 1503

16.  Logic over emotion.
 Development of science
and technology.
 The French Revolution
broadened people’s
horizons and the
concepts of “nation” and
“unity” have an effect on
people’s life and
ideologies.
 Politics are affected by
radical movements,that
want to destroy absolute
monarchies and build
democracies.
http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Age_of_Enlightenment
Eugene Delacroix, Liberty leading the People, 1830

17.  The Age of Steam is heralded.
Railways, steamships and trains
moved by carbon are pioneering and
life-changing inventions.
 Electromagnetism is developed.
 Decrease of fevers because of the
creation of several new vaccines and
medicine.
 The internal combustion engine leads
to the invention of automobiles.
 Darwin’s theory of evolution changes
man’s perspective of origins.
 The first attempt to “touch” the sky
was successful with the Derwitcer
Glider in 1891
 Socialism is a new movemen that
opposes capitalism and the
exploitation of the factory workers
who were used since the beginning
of the Industrial Revolution.
Industrialized England
http://www.sam.usace.army.mil/Portals/46/docs/recreation/OP-
CO/montgomery/pdfs/10thand11th/ahistoryofsteamboats.pdf
http://www.geocities.ws/modwest1/Science

18.  The Wright Brothers
introduce the first airplane.
 Radars and atomic bombs
are created and used in
countless wars that took
place in the period (Two
World Wars)
 The form of DNA is found.
 Man explores space and
lands on the moon. The
first man in space was Yuri
Gagarin, the first animal in
space was Laika and the
first woman wad Valentina
Tereshkova.
Watson and Crick explaining the DNA model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_exploration

19. 1960 AD- now

20.  What do you use in your daily life?

25. “The future depends on what we do in the
present” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

26.  What do YOU think will happen?

28. BC:
 4000BC:Alcoholic drinks , Silver
 3500BC:Brick , Meτal casting , Opium
 3000BC:Candle , Cosmetics , Harp , Lyre , Stone
building , Venus studied
 2800BC:Clay tablet book
 2700BC:Tea
 2600BC:Chair , Silk
 2000BC:Saw
 1600BC:Child’s swing
 1500BC:Shoes , gloves , clepsydra , trumpet
 1100BC:Magnet
 800BC:Socks
 520BC:Pythagora’s theorem
 500BC: Magnetic compass
 470BC:Iron in buildings
 360BC:Celestial Spheres
 300BC:Euclidean Geometry
 260BC:Bridge for boarding ships
 250BC:Archimedes principle
 200BC:Flute , Horseshoes
 100BC:Waterwheel
AD:
 50AD:Street Lamp
 100AD:Scissors
 600AD:Windmill
 700AD:Porcelain
 900AD:Cyrillick alphabet
 1050AD:Musical notation
 1450AD:Trombone
 1608AD:Telescope
 1623AD:Dictionary
 1637AD:Umbrella
 1700AD:Clarinet
 1733AD:Measurement of blood pressure
 1800AD:Electrolysis of water
 1826AD:Kaleidoscope
 1827AD:Ohm’s law
 1851AD:Refrigerator
 1852AD:Airship
 1899AD:Aspirin
 1900AD:Fingerprinting

29. Thank you for your *attention!
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Extra Interesting Links:
http://www.timemaps.com/history/world-3500bc
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/revolutionary-invention-wheel-
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3VH0XZu4gY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUJp9VrEU1o *inexistent