I. History Review through 600 CE A. Nomads: Follow the Food 1. Satisfy basic needs: shelter and food a. No cities‚ didn’t know how to farm 2. Foraging societies (hunter-gatherer clans): hunt and gather b. Small group of people traveled from point to point based on the climate availability of plants and animals in an area c. Limitations: i. Capacity of their surroundings ii. Inability to store food long-term
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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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Writing is basically a method used to record information and it is composed by glyphs (1) and through the graphics‚ it represents the spoken language and over time evolves in different civilization. In an effort to understand where and when writing was invented‚ scholars have coined two terms to simplify their quest. The first is Proto- writings; this is a system that uses ideographic or early mnemonic symbols and True-writing; which is the context of linguistic utterance that is encoded so that
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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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Mohanjodaro in the Indus Valley in the northwest of India and all round him lay the houses and streets of this ancient city that is said to exist over five thousand years ago; and even then it was an old and well developed civilization. There seemed to him something unique about the continuity of a cultural tradition through five thousand years of history‚ of invasion and upheaval‚ a tradition which was wide spread among the masses and powerfully influenced them. "The Indus Valley civilization’ writes Prof
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Hinduism was founded sometime between 1500 and 500 CE in the area of the Indus valley civilization. There is no individual founder and no names given to say who developed it. They are many gods in the religion of Hinduism. Many Hindu followers believe that one of the gods is the true god • Therefore‚ everyone should follow the moral code - it would produce a more just‚ humane‚ and peaceful society. Christians follow the moral code for that reason and also out of gratitude for what God has done
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to help the society understand that a lot has been sacrificed in order to give that name. the city that comes with danger is the city that is embraced in the 21st century. Reference Kenoyer‚ Jonathan Mark (1998) Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization. Oxford University Press‚ Karachi and New York.
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Mesopotamia) ● Used sharpened end of reed into a moist clay tablet ● Because so many symbols had to be learned‚ literacy was confined to a small group of administrators and scribes ○ World View= Pessimistic ■ River flooded randomly ● Egypt (Nile River Valley) ○ 31002575 BCE (Early Dynastic) ■ Writing system of Hieroglyphics started in this period ● Because of the long period of study required to master this system‚ literacy in hieroglyphics was confined to a small group of scribes andadministrators
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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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History of Educational Technology Educational technology in a way could be traced back to the emergence of very early tools‚ e.g.‚ paintings on cave walls. But usually its history starts with educational film (1900s) or Sidney Pressey’s mechanical teaching machines in the 1920s. The first large scale usage of new technologies can be traced to US WWII training of soldiers through training films and other mediated materials. Today‚ presentation-based technology‚ based on the idea that people can
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