Back to the Past: A (Creative) Reflection on the Year in Humanities

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The ATTPS (Awesome Time-Travelling Purple Sphere) 2.1 has worked. I was now in Kenya 2,000,000 BC. With a bit of luck, I was going to see some prehistoric action. Sitting in the middle of a savanna, I was waiting to spot some Homo Habilis, also known as the handyman. I looked at the horizon. There would still be a few hours until sunset. Tap, tap, tap. The sound was repeating itself, becoming louder and faster. I looked towards the left where I thought it was coming from and saw an antelope speeding towards me. I watched as it beautifully hoped. And then appeared the man. Well, he looked more like an ape but he did have a spear in his hand. Of course it was a member of the Homo Habilis, some of the first creatures to create tools and the antelope was soon to be his dinner. The antelope ran but it was slowly getting tired. The man, powered by adrenaline and hunger sped up and then finally through the spear with enormous strength. The spear sliced through the antelope's neck as it fell to the ground. I've seen enough here. I thought and jumped back into the ATTPS. 

Next destination: the Fertile Crescent. In the blink of an eye, I arrived in the ancient land of Sumer, 3,000 BC.  I look around and see the Tigris and Euphrates, the two rivers that give life to the land. The huts of the men and the developed irrigation systems. Sumer was one of the oldest civilizations.
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I happened to be in Ancient Egypt now. A crowd of slaves was pulling a rock, motivated by the whips of their keeper.
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 I was in Ancient India, among the untouchables.
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I am at Machu Picchu in the mountais of South America.