The fifth reading..........

Our ancestors....

People who lived before were called prehistoric people, cause they did not write anything about them. Sciencists studied old bones and other things for investigating their past.


They found first clues in the eastern of Africa. The oldest species lived almost 4.5 million of years ago. After appeared another species around 2.5 million of years ago. Then  came Homo erectus 1.9 million of years ago. (They were first of cooking and discovered fire).

The humankind began with Homo Sapiens, this specie appeared almost 200,000 of years ago. They invented special tools, that made their lives more easy than it was. They moved constantly to find food.


Many scientists think that change in weather made that species go to another parts of the world.

After the Ice Age, human developed their own culture, or the special way how to live together. In Africa they learned how to hunt animals with arrows and bows.  In Europe and Asia, they lived near the seas, so they found the way how to catch fish. In some parts of America they used spears to hunt animals.

Almost 10,000 years ago people began to growing plants, 2,000 years later they used sheeps and goats. In addition to this appear agriculture.

In order to improve their lives, they began to farm, so that new form of life let people live better. They used plows for getting new type of food.

After they began to live in villages, that they throug the time became to be cities.