Fun, Ancient Tour
“Hurray! I have completed my time machine! I believe this will work by tomorrow, hopefully it won’t make any trouble while my sleep.” While I was walking out the door, I saw this light shine on my hand just when I was about to open the door. I turned around in a slow-motion movement and something very strange scooped me in a black hole, where I was dragged to this tremendous place. I saw a couple of trees, and I couldn’t see anything because I was apparently stuck among long, thick grass. I looked at the time and it was exactly 10:00 AM. I heard something grinning- oh boy, I was frightened. It approached me. It was extremely short and it didn’t walk on two feet. In my history class I’ve learned that about 1.8 million years ago homo erectus existed. They hunted for animals and developed as time passed by. Since I’ve created a time machine, I I’d stay here for an hour. So, I decided to talk to him. “So, what’s up? Are you chillin’?” I was crazy. There was no way he could understand that. Homo erectus looked at me weirdly and started giving me these sharp tools to help create a fire. I took a look at the tools, and they looked dusty and some edges were torn apart. One of the tools looked like a knife, because it was covered with blood- which smelled like he had killed an already dead animal. About an hour later, I realized that I had to go, so I waved goodbye to so called Homo erectus.
My next stop was Ancient Sumeria. I’ve seen a really, really old place- and the houses were just, reckless compared to my 2011 city! However, I thought for a minute… A cave which I was in as old as 2 million years during the Paeolothic period to look like this? Well, I was surely amazed by their great work to unite Mesopotamia. In my 2011 history classes I’ve learned some pre-historic facts about what the people did here. When Homo erectus spread rapidly throughout the Near East and then into Europe and Southeast Asia, they built these caves and developed more and more- they then started disappearing and humans replaced them. During most times, humans lived in open-air campsites in small natural caves. They hunted wild animals and fished, gathered wild plants, and wandered over a large geographic area. Their daily life was really interesting- but since I had learnt somewhat information in school, I wanted to learn more about the pictographs and Mesopotamian writing. So I headed down to check out their walls. These early humans (Sumerians) first created pictographs to symbolize what they wanted to teach their sons and daughters. After some time, they created a script of their own called cuneiform. This script had 22 letters and was used at Byblos in the 15 century BC. What was also interesting was the Trade. Some of the Trade they had was also quite surprising. Mesopotamians travelled by boat to carry their foods, drinks, jewelry, and all the other useful material, and some travelled by foot, for example, the Assyrians who lived in northern Mesopotamia. They themselves didn’t have what they really wanted, so, to obtain the things they wanted, they came up with Trade. They traded their things for other goods to keep them satisfied. While thinking about all these amazing facts and interesting stories, I thought to myself, wow, I could never go through such a hard life. I mean, sitting at home with an Iphone, computer, and TV is good enough. I wouldn’t want to be a slave, or trader- and I’d certainly want to keep the alphabet that we have today.
While I was daydreaming about these ancient civilizations, an hour already passed and I had arrived to Ancient Egypt! I took a glance at Ancient Egypt, and I found myself sitting on top of a camel. Good enough, I get an hour ride in Ancient Egypt! I looked around and saw really, really soft, dark yellow- ish rich soil that felt like flower. The wind was strong, it blew on my face. However, I was actually sweating because of the heat- it wasn’t cold at all! I then looked up and saw Ancient Egyptians building the Pyramids. They were huge, and much bigger than I expected. I then decided to take a look at the art that the Ancient Egyptians had made. I tried to visualize what they were trying to explain- but I couldn’t. It was too hard. In modern days in 2011, nobody would draw pictures like these. The Ancient Egyptian pictures of people on walls were always sideways, and there were a lot of circles next to them, I guess the circles represented that they were gods. Then I saw jewelry all around the art- I wondered what all these things could mean. Anyhow, I decided to go next to the Nile River and sail on a boat. I hopped off the camel, and started sailing down the Nile. I tried to reach the end, but I couldn’t because the river was too long. About an hour later, the time machine started pulling me away again. I was kind of tired of it, because it kept interrupting my wonderful moments.
Finally, I arrived to Ancient India. I was quite cold though, since the mountains with snowcapped peaks were right behind me. However, they weren’t just mountains, they were the Himalayas. I was surprised how big they were; they extend from west to east about 2,500 km in a curve, and their width is 100 – 400 km. The Himalayas were characterized by their great height, snowcapped peaks, and rich vegetation. I felt like I had shrunk next to them. After some time, I had decided to go see the TAJ MAHAL that we’ve been studying in 2011. It had a huge pass way toward the actual entrance, it took me forever to reach the gate- It wasted 15 minutes of my Ancient tour. When I got there, there were a lot of amazing things I could see. My favorite part of the Taj Mahal was the reflection pool by the Mosque. This is because I had a chance to swim in it without anyone knowing. In the meantime, I decided to head back to visit Mohenjo-Daro, but it was too late. I felt really bad not seeing the largest city settlement of the Indus Valley Civilization.
The time machine scooped me in the black whole instantly and I returned to the modern day; 2011 in an archaeological dig! I saw people around me searching for evidence of cities, and ancient humans, who weren’t really humans. I’m so glad to be back home with lots of knowledge of my previous Ancient trips as a tourist! I never knew I’d learn this much!
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