HISTORY 180 Study Guide - Final Guide: David Landes, Unintended Consequences, Modern Problems
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If we look into the past we see a lifestyle much different from our own. In today"s world, people are ruled by the clock, by time itself. We wake, eat, sleep, and move about directed by the simple fixture on a wall displaying numbers that have a meaning felt throughout modern civilization. In ancient times man was ruled by nature, by the ebb and flow of the seasons, and by the callings of his job. A farmer rose with the morning light to tend to his fields and worked until he no longer had the light to do so. Townspeople would rise and go about their activities according to their needs, not directed, as we are today, by a ticking counter over their heads. It is not until the 1300"s that we see significant change come about. 1 with the invention of the mechanical clock and its introduction into society, the middle.
