The 21st century has seen us evolve further and create more, we have seen new inventions born and old inventions updated. Our lives have changed dramatically over the last 20 years and we continue to evolve and become more technologically advanced. Today the majority of the Australian population has a smartphone in their pocket, most of us are connected to the internet 24/7, and we have a house to call home, a comfortable bed to sleep in, a car to drive or public transport at our disposal. use and appliances to cook with. We have electricity, it's everywhere, it's all around us, it powers the lights in your house, the energy that runs your phone, the television you watch and the alarm you snooze every morning, all things that most of us give for granted. Many of us expect to have all this every day while in the 1500s nothing like this existed, as far as they knew it was all impossible. So let's think about this, what life was like from 1500 to 1800 compared to today, going back 5 centuries ago, let's see what daily life is like comparing it to today. As Blainey mentions (p.410), "their daily life was governed by sun and rain", if the weather did not permit, little or no work was done that day, life was difficult and life was all about manual labor to get the jobs done. They worried about the little things, like how they looked that day, they did what they had to do to survive. Sometimes they earned their meals as a form of payment, but mostly they had to provide them themselves. “Salt was the only common food to be transported long distances” Blainey tells us (p.414), who clarifies “to own a salt mine in Europe was to win a gold mine”. 'profitable business in the 1500s and everyone used... half the paper ......conclude: has daily life changed significantly? In a sense yes, we have laws in place for safe and fair work, we live in a world more managed by industry, where food and clothing are not always manual tasks. But we still get up in the morning, go to work, earn a reward and come home to take care of our family, so daily life is quite similar, it's just become much more modernized. Luckily for us we live in a first world country, there are third world countries that still suffer from poverty, homelessness and hunger, which have become a way of life. Most countries have evolved with modernization and evolution, but there are countries that live the old way of life, the hard way. We must help them, because they are too poor to help themselves, we must make this world equal, end poverty, end world hunger and help make the lives of those who have difficulties, easier.