Engineering Wonders

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Humanity has existed for about hundreds of millennia. We have been lost in the darkness at our awakening. With almost no knowledge of the world we live in, we survived with our instincts but still hunted by countless predators around us with no assurance if we could still even live for tomorrow. We lived in a cruel world with no mercy to save us.

But within our past few tens of millennia from the present, humanity went at the top of the food chain and our concern for survival has greatly diminished. Creation has been our major interest from this point of our era.

The world has changed when we decided to create.

Our concept of chemistry has been established when we learned to make fire. Fire is one of our greatest discoveries. It helped us deter most of our predators, helping in our fight with them and finally winning the top of the food chain. It helped us survive long nights and rest easily like a sloth hanging by the tree. It helped us to travel cross country, being able to survive the painful winters of the deep north and the deep south, climb treacherous mountain ranges which rose up to the sky, creeped upon deep and dark forests full of unknown life, and crossed land bridges to other continents as the ice age passed and human races lived on in their own separate places. We learned to use heat to cook most of the meat we acquired that greatly helped our brain growth, paving the way for conscious and systematic thinking that we developed.

As our brains have developed and our way of thinking has further improved, our concept of biology has been discovered when we started to acquire the basis of agriculture and horticulture. When we learned the basic principle of plants (which in a nutshell, they spread everywhere they can), we strive to manipulate most of the crops we eat to be able to grow them ourselves. We learned the systematic way of planting, positioning them efficiently to yield more crops during the harvest season. We started to have a constant food supply which even exceeds above the limit from time to time. We also tried to domesticate animals that we can, starting from the prey we hunt like cows for additional food supply, and from having animal companions like wolves and big cats by giving them treats and asserting dominance to help us in our hunting periods. Thus our domination of nature has began.

Finally on our prehistoric era, our concept of infrastructure has risen up when we decided to build temples and tombs thought to be unachievable from our prehistoric lives. Pyramids, the Parthenon, the Temple of Zeus, these temples and tombs may have been considered simple for the present age, but these have been the deciding factors for people to gather with strong and integrated bonds that came from their traditions and culture. Besides that, because of the mass immigration of different people, agriculture and horticulture has furnished even more due to the huge amount of people that could work within fields and animal camps. Because more people have been integrating into families, into communities, into towns, infrastructure has risen to accommodate mass housing for the people that integrated themselves into society.

All of these have contributed at creating one of the most important pillars of humanity, civilizations.

Civilizations have helped us so much in our progress of evolution. Because of their systematic way of living where each individual has their own role in society proportional in their job affinity from their mental and physical ability, progress have never been faster than humanity has been once separated. Simply enough, our unity as a species sped things up much more that our development in every decade is even higher than the whole ten thousand years of humanity before that era, and that was just the moment after our prehistoric age.

And we never thought of the possibility of knowing much more than before until we discovered the concept of physical science which in layman’s terms, physics. Physics is the branch of science which took into account all of the science involved with our physical reality, and this helped so much in applying all our learning into real life situations, which gave rise to engineering, the mass incarceration and involvement of science for production, manufacturing, industrialization, and distribution.

Find out how engineering and science shaped the world from our history, up to the present.