We live in modern times with its varied cultures, traditions, lifestyles..... There is development of technology, science, new inventions,....

Comforts have increased and are growing by the day... But there is always a price to pay... and at what cost are we getting this? And what about the old times, o peaceful, life was so simple, There was no rush... it But was it too slow with not or did people want it that way? weren't they good too.... not li!e now complicated... had its own pace... much advancement in life....

"ery true indeed. There is a huge difference between the times of yesteryear and the present in as far as lifestyle is concerned. While change is necessary, the aspect of human morality must remain constant. #ignity must be preserved but sadly in this present society, respect for the elderly has evaporated from the hearts of many a young people.

The Difference Between the Past and the Modern Lives (buildings, education, food, and streets)
$n this article, $ would li!e to tal! about the difference between old times and modern times. There are three different things that we write here. 1. Old buildings and Modern buildings. $n the past, buildings were still stage houses, small, and made by wood. They were not wide enough and they were still very traditional. ome e%amples of traditional houses are &Tora'a (ouse) or &*edong (ouse) and etc. $n the present, many houses are in the modern shapes. They are built from bric!s and they are wide . They also have fences. (otel is one e%ample of a modern building. +odern building also has more variations of architecture. +odern building is more efficient than the past buildings. +oderns buildings are also built strongly against the earth,ua!e and storm. . Old !ducation and Modern !ducation $n the past, education was very traditional. chools were still very simple and traditional. +any people did not really go to a formal school. They chose to study with their parents at home. They were only taught how to farm, plant, or breed pets. They only learned how to survive to live in very simple ways. $n modern life. -ducation becomes very important. Children must go to school and learn many sub'ects li!e,

mathematics, chemistry, and so on. They also can go to a cheap school or the e%pensive one if the parents have much money. The facilities are also very complete for e%ample, laboratory, gymnasium, musc room and many more. ". Old food and Modern food The food in the past was very traditional. .eople even coo!ed the food in traditional ways li!e in the bamboo or clay pot. They also coo!ed the food with wood that they burned. $n modern life, people invent many modern coo!ing utensils from metal. this can ma!e them coo! very fast. They also invent the modern stove with high technology. o the food can be coo!ed fast and easily. They also create many modern !inds of food that can be served ,uic!ly li!e hamburger, pi//a, and so on. #. Old streets and Moderns $treets treets in the past, were not big. They were also in the bad condition. $f it rained, the streets could be very slippery and dangerous. $n the rainy season, people could not go anywhere because the streets were closed. $n the modern lives, people use technology li!e asphalt to ma!e the streets smooth and clean. $n the rainy season, people can still pass and use the streets

$o%e Differences in Life between the &ncient and Modern 'orlds

Those who study anti,uity would do well to consider life in earlier times compared to life in the West in the 01st century. The technological differences are staggering but other differences, including population and world view, are e,ually daunting. $n a time without cell phones, computers, telephones, automobiles, refrigerators, and all of the beeps, bu//es and noises of modern life, silence was common. $n a time when the world2s population was less than 34 million, solitude was common. $n a time when populations lived or died according to the si/e of their local annual harvest, austerity was the norm. This paper will mention only a few. ensation

By design, man has always received information from the world outside of himself through his senses. (owever, in ancient times the senses of man were limited in what they could e%perience by the local environment. Today such limitations are far less. $ense &ncient Modern

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Technology allows almost anyone to Without photographs and withhave almost any type of visual input, drawings and paintings rare, man2sregardless of their environment.With visual input was limited to the sights millions of documents on every of his immediate surroundings.Withconceivable sub'ect available to most few written documents and littlepeople in an instant, people can literacy, reading and analy/ingspend large percentages of their time documents was unusual. on them. The only limit of sounds to which one can be e%posed is the ability of the The sounds of nature, the human human ear. 5ne can listen to sounds voice, and the noises of a fewfrom the deep sea or high manmade things such as the crea!atmosphere, sounds never and groan o%cart and the crash of e%perienced in person by anyone.The swords comprised the soundsoverall noise level is relatively high in available to be heard.The overallthe cities. ince over 346 of noise level, e%cept near inherently humanity lives in cities, most people noisy places such as waterfalls, was e%perience more sounds than their low. ancestors did. The smells accessible to man were those of the natural world mells are more limited than sights immediately around them.Abraham,or sounds because it is more difficult for e%ample, probably neverto transmit chemicals over the e%perienced the smells of cinnamon,internet than electrons. 7onetheless, nutmeg or cloves. #ue to anfoods, flowers and other fragrant increase in trade, the apostles mayitems can be transported across the have. globe in a matter of hours. As with smells, food could not travel As with smells, the only limit to far, so people e%perienced only what tastes one can e%perience today is the was local. limitations of the human body. Tactile stimuli are more or less theAncient man was far less protected same throughout the world. from hot, cold, rough, smooth, and other such stimuli than we are today. +any of us spend our days in climate controlled houses, buildings and

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vehicles. $t is important to note that while the ancients had a smaller variety of stimuli to observe, they may have observed more deeply than we do today. chedule $n anti,uity, man was governed by the realities of nature in a way that few people living today can even imagine. undials, water cloc!s and other devices were used to tell time in the ancient world, but mechanical cloc!s were not invented until the early 8enaissance. The rhythms of the seasons dictated schedules. Ti%e Period

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Artificial light, usually candles or lamps lit with olive oil, was e%pensive. +ost people had little. When the sun went down, they went to bed. Commoners and slaves usually did hard physical labor9 Today artificial light is cheap and farming, hunting, gathering, orwor! is less often hard physical construction, and were e%haustedlabor. $nstead of being awa!e 10;1< when evening came. #avid spenthours per day li!e the ancients were, hours alone in the countryside with we are awa!e 1=;1> hours per day, his sheep and :incoln spent hours most of it filled with activity and alone in the forest splitting wood. sensation The phases of the moon and the movement of the stars were7avigation is done with timepieces, important for religious observancesmaps, charts, and radio and satellite and for long distance navigation, navigation aids. Celestial navigation especially nautical is a vanishing art. As largely agricultural people, the seasons dictated man2s activities. ?ew in developed countries are one Wars could not occur during thepoor harvest away from starvation, harvest until there were enoughso the seasons have far less impact people to do both at the same time. on the lives of people.

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The greatest force available to man in the ancient world was the pulling force of an o% or horse and the pushing force of the wind or water. Thus man2s ability to lift and move was limited Aalthough as the builders of the pyramids demonstrated, impressiveB.

Transportation +an can wal! about three to four miles per hour over moderate terrain, and camel and don!ey caravans averaged about the same speed. The typical day2s 'ourney was 03 to C4 miles although it was possible to go faster if the roads were good. 8oads were made of dirt until the 8oman era and trouble from highwaymen was common. Camels needed to spend up to two months in between long 'ourneys to recuperate. Caravan routes followed established trails or roads between water points. ?odder had to be brought along, with roughly C4 loads of fodder for every 144 loads of merchandise. -ach camel would carry loads of up to C44 lbs. Typical cargos were wool, cotton, tea, spices, precious stones, and manufactured goods. A caravan might include 134 camels, roughly eight files of 1> camels per file, for a total of 00.3 tons A<3,444 lbsB. Water transportation was by rowing or sailing ships. #epending upon the winds and the current, triremes Aancient *ree! ships with rows and sailsB typically traveled si% to seven miles per hour and travel up to =4 miles per day. +ost ships would stay close to the shore and anchor at night to avoid running aground unless they were in very familiar seas. By 0<4 BC, the *ree!s were using cargo ships which were each capable of carrying 344 tons A1,444,444 lbsB. $t is little wonder that sea trade was far cheaper than land trade. By contrast, modern truc!s can travel <44 miles in one day while carrying 0< tons A<>,444 lbs D one twenty foot e,uivalent unit D T-EB. +odern ultra large container vessels AE:C"B can carry up to 13,444 T-Es. Thus one modern E:C" can carry up to 13,444 truc!loads of cargo. (ealth (ealth was one of the greatest differences. As late as -ngland in the 1>th century, 03 women died for every 1444 babies born. According to estimates using data from the 8oman -mpire, about C44 of every 1444 newborns died before completing their first year. Abortion and infanticide, common practices, artificially elevate that number, but modern non;industrial societies sometimes have infant mortality rates of up to 044F1444. Average life e%pectancy was 03 years, but people who lived into adulthood probably made it to their =4s or G4s. By contrast, modern life e%pectancy at birth is G3 to >4 years in the Western world and

infant mortality is roughly three to five deaths per 1,444 births. +aternal mortality is roughly 14 deaths per 144,444 live births. Conclusion :ibraries have been written on this topic, but students of history and historical documents such as the Bible should be aware of these important facts. A clearer understanding of the lives of our ancestors will help us better understand their thoughts, actions, and lives. $t will also help us better identify the lessons of history and apply them to our world today. Women of modern and ancient times.