Time travelling

Ancient Kenya:

My journey through time begins in Kenya. The sun shines high above the land, causing great heat in the savanna. As I walk around my landing area I hear some sort of noise, I cannot tell wether it is made by animals or could it be early humans. As I followed the sound I heard the rushing of water. As I approached it I saw some strange form of humans, they looked three times as harry as we are and looked ape like. I cannot tell wether they are wearing clothes or are dragging an animal on their back. The majority is made up of women and children. They are collecting berries and I can tell that their tribe is a hunter gatherer tribe. Further away from the river are some sort of tents, I believe that they are not permanent but are only there for a short period. As I approached them I concluded that they do not look like us at all and do talk in a different way.

I heard some sort of war cry. Apparently the tribes hunters had returned and were informing the rest that food has come. They looked at me in awe, I seamed like completely different to these creatures. I tried waving at them and showing my time machine. They were even more amazed. Just when I was about to join some of the tribe people at the fire my time travelling machine started beeping, I knew it was time to leave. I thought of going  further up north east,  into Asia. I expect to see significant development, from the early human stages to a early civilisation.

Sumaria:

My landing cite was a bit better than the one in Kenya, I appeared to be in Mesopotamian  town.  The greatest change from the people in Kenya to the ones In Sumer is the fact that the early humans were nomadic people while the Sumerians were farmers. As I looked around I saw town people picking the crops and planting new ones. To me it appeared that the area had no water, but when I looked closer I saw irrigation systems from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. After looking around a bit more I saw that in this year the civilization was still developing. I thought of skipping to the Egyptian civilization without looking around any more. Then I realized that that would be to great of a time gap and that I would miss out on an important civilisation. So I switched on the fast forward function on my time travelling machine, it skipped only a few decades. Once I stopped, I looked around and to my surprise there was change. The city in which I stood before, had merchants and artist. This meant that the town had a surplus of food and that the people could explore other jobs besides farming.Farmers brought in their harvested crops and sold them to the towns people while merchants sold all sorts of objects from far away place. This was a sign of trade and that the civilisation had developed a great deal in the short period of time. I went to what appeared to be a temple. The interior was covered with pictographs and paintings. I can only suppose that they had a religious purpose. But on the other hand I linked them with Gilgamesh, I knew that stories about him were one of the earliest recorded. I wonder who translated this epic to english.

Ancient Egypt: 

Now that I have reached Egypt, I knew that I am standing on the land of a great civilization. I look around, and saw a huge pyramid, next to was a large “cat”. After pointing at the cat and shrugging my shoulders the passing Egyptian said only two words " Giza and Sphinx". Later I realised  that it was a sphinx, and it was there to "protect" the pyramids from evil spirits and anyone who wanted to rob the. I decided that getting a camel would be of use, so I found a camel tied to a wooden gate.I untied the knot and sat on the camel. I rode through the village. The hot winds blew in my face, sand was in the air making it hard to see far ahead.  I entered one of the pyramids, in which I  saw hieroglyphs on the walls. I also saw some sort of ancient comics. After looking closer I figured that they were a part of the book of the dead. Remembering my seventh grade teacher I recalled that the Book of the Dead was basically an instruction manual on how to have a successful afterlife. What a great comforting thought, for an egyptians hard life, was the idea of afterlife. Right outside the pyramid I saw slaves pulling giant limestone blocks to a nearby pyramid. I was amazed how they managed to pull such a rock with no wheels attached to it.

Ancient India:

After travelling through time several times in one day I felt tired and didn't want to visit India. I knew that India had many beautiful sites, the Himalayas, Hindu Kush mountains and The major rivers. All of these geographical features allowed the civilizations to develop better and quicker. The first place that I visited was the Indus river, along it towns were built boats sailed in it. Later I travelled up north to see the holy Ganges river, in it people bathed. They believed that by doing so all sins were washed away. To see the thing that I wanted to visit, the Taj Mahal, I had to turn on fast forward mode and travel to the 17th century AD. The magnificent structure was built for 20 years, and it was made as a tomb for the wife of emperor Shah Jahan. It was the most beautifully decorated building I have ever seen. From some angles it seemed pink and from others it was white. After I spent several minutes staring at it, I figured that it was time to return to our time. On my way home I thought of how long it takes to achieve Moksha or Nirvana. With me travelling this fast I will never achieve it. I do not have enough time to meditate and think about life.

Today:

Once I departed from Ancient India, I chose to visit Catal Hayuk, one of the largest cities in that time . It covers 23 acres and has over 4000 homes. Catal Hayuk is located in present day Turkey, it was a part of the fertile crescent. That is the reason why I believe that it achieved to expand so much. In Catal Hayuk the specialisation of labour was well developed, this means that artist and traders were already there for a long time. The reason why this city is religiously important is because it shows the first signs of people praying in their homes. Fortunately  the foundations of buildings remain, there are few buildings that even have walls and parts of the flat roof. I believe that further exploration of the region  using radio  carbon dating and geo- magnetic research ,could reveal even more about Catal Hayuk and the people that lived there. In my next time travelling adventure I will certainly explore the fertile crescent more, especially this region. I believe that the fertile crescent played a major role in the Neolith revolution. In the fertile crescent the Neolith revolution started. In the region hunters and gatherers started making permanent settlements, due to the fact that they saw how rich in minerals the soil was. The rich soil sparked the ideas of developing agriculture. After growing grains, the former nomads, started taming animals, this saved time and energy. They didn't have to follow the animals any more. According to Gordon Child, the most important change in the human history, is Neolith revolution in which Homo sapiens , once nomadic hunter and gatherer became permanently settled , agricultural farmer .   

Once I returned to Belgrade and found the the National Geographic magazine. On it was the name of my great grand father Luka Luketic, he collected these magazines for many years. In it was a surprising discovery. A temple in Turkey was found, it is seven thousand years older than Stonehenge. The temple itself is over 11,000 years old, and has sparked many new ideas. Some Historians are started to doubt the idea of people settling according to agriculture, now the new theory says that they settled according to religion. I believe that Gobekli Tepe, is up to some point similar to Stonehenge, both have the stones sticking out.