Tuesday, January 28, 2014

WEST civilization

When talking about western world:
        -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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