-Europe
-Americas (North, South)
Prehistory:
- when things first started getting written down
- Prehistoric: *pre*-before things were written
- 200,000 years ago was when human species emerged in South Western Africa
- Paleolithic Age
- old stone age
- basic use of tools
- Neolithic Age
- new stone age
- more uses of tools/more advanced and begining of agricultural age
Agricultural revolution
- also known as Neolithic revolution
- population started rising
- thought that TFR must have been low in the old stone age
- hierarchies:
- someone that over ranks someone else
- had their hierarchies according/based on the the job
- women were low in hierarchy
- inventions of wheel and plow were huge technological inventions:
- made agriculture more advanced
- technological breakthroughs
- villagers were polytheistic (worshiped many gods)
- moon god
- sun god
- thought of some animals as higher than them
- fertile crescent
- Mesopotamia
Sumer:
- occupied land between Tigris and Ephrates river
- many people (40,000)
- many people = many fights
- ***invented very first form of "cuniforme"***
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