Cities and Civilizations Review What is a civilization? What caused the shift from hunting & gathering to farming? How did this affect mankind? Around 8000 B.C. a shift began… It was called the Neolithic Revolution This brings in the “New Stone Age” What is the REVOLUTION? A TOTALLY new way of living: Going from Hunter Gathers to Agriculture The invention of Agriculture changed the way people lived. Agriculture (Farming) Growth of Cities Division of Labor (Specialization)
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CLAR 120: GLOSSARY UPDATED: 8/18/15 absolute dating: The determination of age with reference to a specific time scale, such as a fixed calendrical system. Anatolia: The western Asian peninsula bordered by the Black Sea, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean, with the eastern border variously defined; today the western part of Turkey. Also called Asia Minor, especially when referring to the Greek and Roman periods. anthropology: The study of humanity - our physical characteristics as animals, and
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HUM101: WORLD CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE TOPIC 1: STONE AGE- PROLOGUE TO CIVILIZATION History: History is the record and interpretation of human past. It is useful and it teaches us many things about the world we live in. History is about everyday things which includes the factors how people use to travel, live, wear, eat, cook food, what were there beliefs, what kind of government they had, what theye use to do in their free time etc. All these factors makes history interesting and gives us an idea
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on findings of research conducted on the issue. Domestication of plants and animals began in the Neolithic period dating 13000-5000 years ago. This period is associated with the hominids Homo Sapien and Homo Sapien Sapien. The first animal that was domesticated is the dog (Diamond 2005). Those who were against Diamonds argument pointed out to origin of human civilization from the Neolithic Revolution to Age of encounter. Focus was in the rise and growth of early agriculture in Egypt and Mesopotamia
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Since china is seeing a rapid economic development in the past few decades, we have also heard about the environmental and other issues related to the development of the country. Since I came to china for study, I got the opportunity to learn more about the success of china’s economic development as well as the negative externalities of the development and also the problem related to higher population. I have also learned about Chinese culture, language, the interesting dynasties (kingdoms) and the
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ways due to the changes and had continuities that lasted for generations to come. _________ Most major changes that occurred in Western Europe were ones that concerned class structure. Examples of these were shown in Britain, where the Industrial Revolution led to the creation of a working class thus improving their economy and making it a more stable nation overall. One example of this can be seen by the mass movement of people from the countryside to urbanized Britain. This movement was mainly due
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Early civilizations were greatly influenced by geography as the basics needed for sustaining life and natural barriers form invasion provided safety and sustenance for the peoples. As the Neolithic revolution came forth and people started to develop agricultural techniques which would allow for stable food for the year, the people would settle where geography offered the least amount of barriers and the most amount of positive attributes to sustain the civilization. That is, civilization was able
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Some of these concepts forced me to rethink myself and my place here on Earth, am I a Taker, or a Leaver? Are entire species going extinct because of us directly? And if so, is that the natural order of the way life is supposed to be? Or are we supposed to take our knowledge and “play God” so to speak and save all of the living creatures we are able to? Furthermore, what techniques are we actually going to use? Putting animals in cages changes them, so much that they are not “wild,” rather, they
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History of Egypt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Recentism.svg This article or section may be slanted towards recent events. Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective. (April 2014) Part of a series on the History of Egypt All Gizah Pyramids.jpg Prehistoric Egypt pre–3100 BC Ancient Egypt Early Dynastic Period 3100–2686 BC Old Kingdom 2686–2181 BC 1st Intermediate Period 2181–2055 BC Middle Kingdom 2055–1650 BC 2nd Intermediate Period 1650–1550 BC New Kingdom 1550–1069
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centers for socialization, they allowed for people to possibly plot attacks against the government; the government did not like knowing what was being discussed so they even sent spies to eavesdrop. These conversations could lead to revolutions and in fact the French Revolution resulted from a conversation in a coffeeshop. However coffee is associated with intellectualism because it is caffeinated and known to sharpen the mind. Being that coffee was associated with intellectualism,
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