Chapter |
Contents |
1. How did people help themselves to survive? |
Human basic needs and first activities to satisfy them. Hunting, gathering, farming and cattle breeding. |
2. Edible or not? |
Historical ways of making food and its preservation. Where have substances at our kitchen come from? |
3. From head to toe |
Origin of manufacturing clothes and shoes. Materials. Weaving and knitting. |
4. Building a house |
Construction materials and simple mechanisms in the past and present. Natural and artificial materials. |
5. Taming fire |
Ways to build fire. Burning process and coal-making. Fire protection. |
6. Attack and defence |
Means of war: building castles and creating weapons. Gunpowder. Ballistics. Smelting metals from ores. |
7. Fighting the unknown |
Medicine: ancient and modern. Treating wounds, curing illness and preventing diseases. |
8. Finding the way home |
How travellers could find their ways in the past. |