Mankind: the story of all of us

How long after the universe begins is mankind born

13 billion years

The Rift Valley of East Africa was a fertile laboratory for what?

life

How long would a thousand pounds of meat feed a family of six?

a month

What does mankind invent to be able to compete against the natural predators of Africa?

tools and weapons

What is the key to mankind's survival?

brain

Over two million years, it
more than ________________ in size, with trillions of connections.

doubles

The most _______________ structure in the universe, letting us _______________ communicate, and love.

doubles, complex

Over _____________ ago, mankind settles the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Europe.

50,000 years

As we spread out, a slight shift in the Earth's axis away from the sun ____________ the planet.

cools

Average temperatures drop up to ______________

14 degrees

A third of the planet under________.

Ice

What do we devise to help keep us alive?

technologies

In this frozen world,_____________ makes a great leap forward.

mankind

___________ turns caves into homes.

fire

We sharpen animal bones into the first __________ ,and make tailored___________for the first time.

needles, clothes

What is the most uniquely human invention?

art

What becomes man's best friend?

wolves

Four hundred generations ago, in the_________ ,a woman whose name we will never know, nurtures into life the ________ of humanity. Scientists call her _______?

middle east, future , our farming mother

How much of the globe does water cover?

70%

What idea gives birth to the world we live in today?

idea

A new crop conquers the globe: ________. From a single sixty-pound ________, seventy loaves of _______.

wheat, bushel, bread

By _______farming reaches Southern England, creating a blue print for the future: _______.Mankind's first settled communities. And a new figure:_______. The first farm_______ pigs, sheep, goats, cattle.

3000BC, The village , the leader, animals

Taming and _______other animal is they key to the growth of our________. But farming also opens up a new battlefront against mankind's most enduring enemy:_________

breading, population, dieseas

How tall are the average man and woman around 3,000 B.C.?

man 5 foot 3 inches and women 5 foot

Owning land gives birth to what new enemy?

religion

The birth of ______. One in ten skeletons from early farming folk show signs of_______. A farmer can expect to die______years before our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

warfare, violents, 5

With farming life comes another leap for mankind: new ways of________and the beginnings of organized__________.

mourning , religion

What was Stonehenge?

a religious monument

On 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.

egypt , pyramid, Kuf, 4,000, 35,000, iron ,cooper

Who was one of the first and greatest engineers in the story of mankind?

prince of egpyt

What was they key to most of the achievements of mankind?

writing

Developed 5,000 years ago in the______ ,writing is an _______ of the human brain.

middle east, extension

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.

work force, 20, 2 million, 400, competeing

What is deep inside the pyramid?

pharo

What was the pyramid capped with?

gold

Across 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_______.

cities, Kanash, trade, industry, ontrupur

_______ 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.

tin, bronze, warfare

Almost 4,000 years ago, traders like Imdi turned ________ into something new. They literally make_______ . Hundreds of Imdi's____ on clay tablets survive.

writing, history, letters

Trade and industry are forging new _______. across the world. Amur ______ a valuable cargo through bandit country.

consecution, transports,

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 _______.

civilization, bronze, warfare

Megiddo, in modern day ______. April 16, 1457 B.C. Egypt's new pharaoh, _______ III. Young. Ambitious. Untested. Middle eastern warlords have seized ________ of the city of _______, the key to the trade networks of the ancient world. ______ troops.

Israel, titmouse ,control, Megiddo, 12,000

Why was April 16, 1457 B.C. important?

the first recordered battle in history

In the Bible, what will Megiddo give its name to?

amaegston

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.

resources, pharaoh, 12,000

Egyptian _______ record the turning point: the enemy _______ headlong into Mediggo in fear.

sorties, fled

What do the rebel warlords hand over as hostages?

their children

Tutmoses III ________ the Egyptian empire to its greatest size ever-_______ square miles.

expands, 400,000

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 _______.

the keys, fire, farming ,communication, cities, trade, _______, million, god.

What is the new material that will transform our future?

iron