Help 4. read the text and open the brackets. (5 points) the history of man how long has man been on the earth? let us travel 5,000 years into the past. we are in the days before man 1(learn) to write. recorded history 2(not yet. let us go further into the past to 8,000 years ago. we are in a world without cities or towns, houses or roads. yet there are people, about five million of them, 3( on all five continents. they have cows and horses and they 4( the land. to find the first man we must 5( many hundreds of thousands of years into the past. the earliest true human being, homo sapiens, appeared in europe more than 50,000 years ago.