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How did people navigate in the dark before the invention of electric lights?
How did people navigate in the dark before the invention of electric lights?
People would wear light-coloured clothing so that their friends could see them when navigating in the dark. They would also use white chalk to mark their route in advance during the day, so they would know where they were going at night.
True or false: People used to have special words for day?
True or false: People used to have special words for day?
False
True or false: People would wear light-coloured clothing to help them navigate in the dark.
True or false: People would wear light-coloured clothing to help them navigate in the dark.
True
True or false: People used to wear dark clothing when navigating in the darkness?
True or false: People used to wear dark clothing when navigating in the darkness?
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What special words did people have for night before electric lights?
What special words did people have for night before electric lights?
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True or false: People would use white chalk to mark their route during the night.
True or false: People would use white chalk to mark their route during the night.
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What kind of obstacles did people face when navigating in the dark?
What kind of obstacles did people face when navigating in the dark?
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True or false: People used to mark their routes with white chalk during the night?
True or false: People used to mark their routes with white chalk during the night?
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True or false: Electric lights were invented before people had words for night.
True or false: Electric lights were invented before people had words for night.
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How did people prepare for navigating in the dark?
How did people prepare for navigating in the dark?
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True or false: People had to learn how to fold their clothes so they could navigate through the house in the dark?
True or false: People had to learn how to fold their clothes so they could navigate through the house in the dark?
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True or false: People would have to learn how to fold their clothes to walk through the house in the dark.
True or false: People would have to learn how to fold their clothes to walk through the house in the dark.
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True or false: People could navigate in the dark without any difficulty.
True or false: People could navigate in the dark without any difficulty.
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True or false: Before electric lights, people considered night and day as different as summer and winter?
True or false: Before electric lights, people considered night and day as different as summer and winter?
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How did people adapt to the darkness of their homes before electric lights?
How did people adapt to the darkness of their homes before electric lights?
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True or false: People would use white chalk to mark their route during the day.
True or false: People would use white chalk to mark their route during the day.
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True or false: People would use light-coloured clothing so that their friends could see them during the day.
True or false: People would use light-coloured clothing so that their friends could see them during the day.
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True or false: People considered night and day to be the same.
True or false: People considered night and day to be the same.
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True or false: People would often fall into ponds and ravines while navigating in the dark.
True or false: People would often fall into ponds and ravines while navigating in the dark.
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True or false: Electric lights were invented to help people see better at night.
True or false: Electric lights were invented to help people see better at night.
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Study Notes
- Before the invention of electric lights, our ancestors considered night a different "season."
- At night, they were nearly blind.
- And so, to them, day and night seemed as different as summer and winter.
- They even had special words for night.
- Before electric lights, people often fell into ponds and ravines while trying to navigate in the darkness.
- People would wear light-coloured clothing so that their friends could see them when navigating in the darkness.
- People would also use white chalk to mark their route in advance during the day, so they would know where they were going at night.
- It was dark inside houses as well, and people would have to learn how to fold their clothes so that they could walk through the house without tripping.
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Discover how our ancestors navigated in the darkness before the invention of electric lights. Learn about the challenges they faced and the creative solutions they devised to move around and function at night.
