iv. Settled societies were more successful than Hunter gatherers because they were able to grow their population faster and were more efficient at giving everyone a job so they would all be contributing to the tribe in different ways. 2 The Neolithic Revolution Early Agricultural Societies III. Early agricultural societies were located on rivers and in places with rich soil so crops
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1. Paleolithic rock art: People left their hunting records‚ drawings of their culture and experiences on cave walls with bright colours‚ some of which have been preserved up to today. Also‚ paleolithic people made small statues or carvings out of stone‚ of figures such as Venus figures. In addition‚ although it may seem like art to modern world‚ they used stone tools to hunt and gather. 1. Venus figurines : In places all over the world‚ from Europe to Russia‚ figurines of women have been found
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Chapter Review Human migration began in eastern Africa‚ where remains of the earliest types of human remains were found to originate. Gradual migration was caused by the need to find scarce food and slowly caused the spread of the human population across to the Americas and Australia. Agricultural societies first emerged in the middle east. Since population was increasing‚ it encouraged people to find a more reliable food source and since the ice age had come to an end‚ it brought the retreat
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The book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is about how many different things contributed to the success of societies versus the destruction of other societies. The book starts out with the author‚ Jared Diamond‚ in New Guinea talking to a New Guinean politician named Yali. Yali asked Diamond "Why white men developed so much cargo…" Diamond was determined to seek an answer to Yali’s question. Diamond surrounds his answer on how History followed different courses for different people because of differences among
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to around (p. 22) 100 million 12. One of the earliest Neolithic settlements was __________‚ which was located at a freshwater oasis north of the Dead Sea and had a population of around two thousand. (p. 22) Jericho 13. Which well known Neolithic settlement was located in south central Anatolia and had a population of around eight thousand? (p. 22) Catal Huyuk 14. The earliest of the three Neolithic craft industries was (p. 23) Pottery‚ textile production‚
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excellerated which resulted in wars List 2 differences of Neolithic from Mesolithic ppl 1. Better tool use 2. More elaborate social organization 3. More population pressure 4. Invention of agriculture 5. Cities 6. Forshadowing of civilization Invention of agriculture that most clearly moved the human species towards more elaborate social and cultural patterns Where did the Neolithic Revolution first occur? Middle east Why is the Neolithic revolution misleading? 2 reasons 1. Agriculture was
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temple where she finds much ancient memoirs concerning the way of life of the Neolithic man. She tries to analyse the Neolithic man‚ but her experience is quite captivating to the reader. The explanations that Batuman offers to regard the different remnants of the Neolithic man are quite convincing. She offers both scientific and biblical explanations for the existence of the evidence as presented by the remnants of the Neolithic man. Batuman has many questions regarding the way of life of the people
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thousand years ago‚ otherwise known as the Neolithic Revolution‚ resulted in drastic population growth. Though many different explanations have been proposed to explain this growth‚ evidence shows that an increase in the birthrate and fertility of mothers was vital to growth during the transition to an agrarian economy (Larsen 1995: 197). Birth intervals are mainly determined by a mother’s metabolic load and balance of calories. In the midst of the Neolithic Revolution‚ mothers who had recently bore
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1 The Birth of Civilization Mohenjo-Daro Figure. Scholars believe this limestone statue from about 2500 B.C.E. depicts a king or a priest from Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus valley in present-day Pakistan. Does this figure seem to emphasize the features of a particular person or the attributes of a particular role? Hear the Audio for Chapter 1 at www.myhistorylab.com CRAIMC01_xxxii-031hr2.qxp 2/17/11 3:22 PM Page xxxii EARLY HUMANS AND THEIR CULTURE page 1 WHY IS “culture” considered a defining
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the Paleolithic era. Paleolithic‚ Homo afarensis‚ Neandertal‚ Lascaux‚ Natufian Culture‚ Homo sapiens‚ Venus figurines. See: 10-15 in Traditions and Encounters 2. Explain the reasons behind the transition to agriculture during the Neolithic era. Neolithic. See: 15-20 in Traditions and Encounters 3. Discuss the early development of Sumer. Sumer‚ Standard of Ur‚ Ziggurat. See: 21-35 4. Outline the causes and effects of a written cultural tradition in Mesopotamia. Hammurabi‚ Phoenicians
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