Sunday, January 26, 2020

western civ day 3

From Prehistory to Civilization

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
Agricultural revolution

  • 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 
Earliest Cities

  • 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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