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As time went on and pottery and metalwork developed, children would have been taught how to make vessels to store food in and drink from, as well as how to melt metals and make bronze from copper and tin.
That sounds super-glamorous compared with one of the other big jobs for children – clearing stones out of fields before ploughing, then weeding and chasing birds away from the crops. What a hoot!
Do you ever wish . . . you had a better way to travel to school
than the boring old bus? A pair of custard-powered roller skates perhaps?
Well, back in the early times, the main mode of transport was a high-tech invention called ‘feet’. People had to travel on foot when the climate changed, when they had to find a new home or when the animals they hunted moved on and they had to follow.
Later on, merchants would travel ThOuSaNdS oF MiLeS on foot to find things to buy and sell. Luckily for them, something very handy indeed was invented. You may have heard of it – it’s called the WhEeL! To begin with, wheels were solid circles of wood and would have been attached to carts and wagons pulled by oxen or perhaps horses. But definitely not gerbils.
Humans also began making boats. The earliest types were canoes carved from single large tree trunks.
The oldest discovered boat in the world is from the Netherlands and was made around 10,000 years ago – but we know that people had boats before that because it was the only way they could get to Australia, and people have been there for about 60,000 years!
By the Iron Age, transport had developed somewhat, and though jumbo jets were still a few years off, technology meant warriors could drive super-fast horse-drawn chariots into battle.
So, if you want to really impress your pals, just hook your skateboard up to a pony and you’re all set!
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