The origins and "ages of human beings"
- 200,000 years ago humans emerged in central Africa
- 14,000 years ago humans became a worldwide species
- Early prehistoric age is the Paleolithic age
- Neolithic age was married by much better tools and agriculture
- Population grew due to food surplus
- Hierarchies appeared in village life
- The woman cared for children
- Men were higher then women
- Invention of wheel+plow make getting food easier
- Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey were in fertile crescent
- Jordan wasn't in crescent
- Sumer was the district of land between rivers
- Some towns and cities had 40,000 people
- Population increased due to irrigation
- Sumerians invented a form of writing- cuneiform
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