Tuesday, January 27, 2015

1/27/15

today in west civ we had a sub because mr.schick wasnt in class. so we used this class to study for a test tomorrow.
Prehistory to Civilization 3000-1200 B.C.

  • a human species started in southwest africa
  • earliest prehistoric age -Paleolithic age (stone age)
  • people were hunters and gathers
  • humans migrated around this time and were not advanced

  • Neolithic age is the new stone age
  • the neolithic age brought advanced tool making and the beginnings of agriculture
  • during the neotlithic age humans became sedentary group that didnt migrate
  • humans bodies started to change 
    • heads got bigger because there brains got bigger
    • started to not be as hair
  • wives stayed home and had kids and took care of kids
  • the kids could be breast fed until they are 4 
  • men had many different kinds of jobs
  • this is when hierarchies
  • the population started to rise
  • the religion of villagers is polytheist they worshipped things of nature
  •  they were located in the fertile crescent / Mesopotamia 
  • in a village called sumer the sumerians started 
  • jobs in the village:
    • priest(most scholarly)
    • tradesmen
    • artisans
    • politicians
    • farmers
  • kings , family dynasties and city states started
  • invented earliest form of writing called cuneiform 



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