Today we had a two hour delay because of snow so our classes were only forty minutes. We took notes fro the board today, and I am actually somewhat interested in them. The notes I got were:
From Prehistoric to Civilization
The Origins and "Ages" of Human Beings
-200,000 years ago a human species emerged in southwest Asia
-14,000 years ago, a worldwide human race existed
-Earliest prehistoric age is the Paleolithic Age (old stone age)
-Neolithic Age (New Stone Age), marked by advance tool making &beginning of agriculture at first human part of migritory groups (hunted, fished, gathered plants for food)
The Agricultural Revolution
-Shift from hunting& gathering to permanent settlements (proper homes) - called Neolithic Revolution
-population increases
-hierarchies appeared in village life (women were lower- domestic duties (stayed at home mostly))
-invention of wheel & plow- allowed to produce enough food for storage
-villages were polytheists, worshipped multiple nature, human, and animal gods
Modern day countries in fertile crescent:
Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran
Earliest Cities: Mesopotamia
-Sumer- between Tigris & Euphrates river
-invented irrigation (able to create cities/ towns)
-as many as 40,000 people
-better food storage- allowed diversity in professions: (priests, tradesmen, artisans, politicians, farmers)
-kings emerged, family dynasty, concept of "city-state"
-Sumerians invented earliest for of writing- "cuneiform"
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