Chapter One Notes Before Civilization (Circa Lorraine) Culture: constituted by learned patterns of action and expression FOOD GATHERING AND STONE TECHNOLOGY Stone tool-making first appeared around 2 million years ago Stone Age Lasted from 2 million to about 4‚000 years ago Misleading label: bone‚ skin and wood just survive poorly Paleolithic = Old Stone Age Neolithic = New Stone Age Foundations of science‚ art‚ and religion begin here May have believed in afterlife In game-rich areas
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Paul‚ Trench‚ Trubner & Co.‚ 1932 Gimbutas‚ Marija‚ The Civilization of the Goddess‚ N.Y.‚ HarperCollins‚ 1992 Hawley‚ John Charles‚ India in Africa‚ Africa in India‚ Indiana University Press‚ 2008. Karmer‚ Samuel Noah‚ The Sumerians: Their History‚ Culture‚ and Character‚ Chicago: University of Chicago Press‚ 1963 Kochar‚ Rajesh‚ The Vedic People‚ Orient Longman‚ 2000. Kosambi‚ D.D.‚ Ancient India:A History of its Culture and Civilization‚ Meridian‚ 1969. Krishnamurti‚ Badriraju‚ Comparative Dravidian
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in different things – lead to priests‚ nobles‚ kings‚ queens‚ etc. – known as “job specialization” * Domestication of Plants and animals > Farming > Population intensification‚ surplus food‚ specialization > Complex society known as civilization. ________________________________________________________________________ What is Jerrod Diamond’s thesis? * Studies birds * ------------------------------------------------- “Why do you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans
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examined multiple civilizations. For this project‚ we had to create our own ultimate civilization-gathering achievements from other civilizations and piecing them together to from the perfect Utopia. Like with Mesopotamia‚ Ancient Egypt‚ Ancient China‚ Ancient Greece and just about every early civilization-location played a vital role in the upbringing and culture of the peoples. My civilization resides in where the Sumerians lived; Mesopotamia‚ between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers‚ largely corresponding
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have a balanced and considered review of at least four the civilizations learned in unit 1: a) The earliest civilizations hardly benefited anyone other than the small‚ largely urban and male elites. Cities developed into bid industry of manufacturing and gave opportunity on specialized jobs such as government officials. b) Some segments of the population became worse off as a result of the development of complex society (civilization). disease spread Women lost many of their rights except
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The Mesopotamian‚ Egyptian‚ and Indus regions were (respectively) successful regions. All share the aspects of a successful society based from nearby river systems. Group 1:Mesopotamia * Document 1: This document describes the story of an innocent god that shared water with animals at a watering hole. The document describes the importance of water by referencing to the herds of wild game and Enkidu. The people that have created this document have put much emphasis on water systems.
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Chapter 6 Study Guide: Commonalities and Variations: Americas and Africa - Less well-known civilization that thrived are the “Maya” and “Tiwanaku” from Mesoamerica‚ and “Meroë‚” “Axum‚” and “Niger River Valley‚” from Africa. - This Chapter explores their history “Continental Comparisons” - The 3 supercontinent where the Agricultural Revolution first took place were Eurasia‚ Africa‚ and the Americas - 80% of the world population was in Eurasia; 11% was in Africa; 5-7% was in the Americas
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Compare the culture‚ state and social structure of two or more early civilizations: Mesopotamia‚ Egypt‚ Indus Valley. 5 Major Historical Themes: - Human And Environment Interaction: People who lived in these ancient civilizations had a great impact on the environment. An example of this would be Mesopotamia. In southern Mesopotamia‚ deforestation‚ soil erosion‚ and salinization of soil weakened Sumerian city-states‚ leading to foreign conquest. The rising populations of the ancient societies
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Chapter 1 ● Mesopotamia (TigrisEuphrates) ○ 80002000 BCE ■ Neolithic (New Stone Age) ■ Earliest Agriculture ○ City States (walled city and hinterland) sprung up around rivers ■ Citystates= characteristic of mesopotamia‚ Archaic and Classical Greece‚ Phoenicia‚ and early Italy ○ People living here= Sumerians ■ In Southern Mesopotamia by 5000 BCE ■ Responsible for making irrigation technology‚ cuneiform‚ religious concepts found in Mesopotamian culture ○ Lugal=Big Man (their leader‚
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prior to the oldest civilizations (pre historic era according to us). It should be noted that the drainage and plumbing systems used by the Indus Valley civilization at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were much advanced than most of the current systems. Known oldest civilizations are Mesopotamian‚ Egyptian‚ Indus Valley etc. Some of the Indus Valley articles (writings / carvings) points to their ancestors who were termed as Gods (meaning‚ much knowledgeable and powerful than the Indus Valley people themselves)
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