Reflection1 : the use of fire , invention of the wheel and history of writing

In the article about the invention of fire, several changes took place due to this discovery. The nutritional effect of being able to find food and prepare it was a major accomplishment for humans. Their brains became mature and developed. Fire became a source of protection for man against their enemies. This probably allowed man to socialize with each other more often. The invention of the wheel brought many changes to humankind. It allowed the use of trade and transportation. This development in transportation would bring an evolution of trade and growth to the cities and governments. Increasing social development and taking the strain out of having to carry supplies from one place to another.Furthermore, the invention of writing took place in an agrarian culture. It showed recordings of their production of grains and cattle produced as the first examples of written symbols engraved on clay. This transferred over to Egypt where the symbols called pictographs were represented by not only words but also eventually they each represented individual sounds and they created the first alphabet.
After reading these three articles, I have learnt that humans develop mentally, physically, socially and emotionally. Evolutionary changes have occurred with the development of the use of fire, the invention of the wheel and writing. Man now knew how to protect themselves better, how to trade and socialize and how to communicate and record changes. The significance of the readings to me was that helpful resources that we as human beings use everyday developed from little as nothing to something so great and of such big importance. To me these readings were given to us as pre-intern teachers for us to realize that we have come a long way and as educators, we should know that knowledge develops just as humans develop; it happen in stages.