From Prehistory to Civilization
- Prehistoric means before writing
- 200,000 years ago a human species emerged in Central Africa
- The earliest prehistoric age was referred to as the Paleolithic age
- The Neolithic age was recognized by the advanced tool-making and beginnings of agriculture
- In the fertile crescent, the people went from being hunter-gatherers to being permanent settlers and grew their own food
- Farming caused a surplus if food and a surplus of food grew the population
- The Sumerian women were caretakers so they moved down on the hierarchy because their only job was to watch the kids
- They invented the wheel and plow and then it also helped to make a surplus of food
- Villagers were polytheistic
- Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey are modern day countries that were apart of the Fertile Crescent
- Sumer was the land between the Tigris and Euphrates river
- New towns were made in Sumer and some had up to 40,000 people in them
- Food storage was invented and it created more job opportunities such as merchants, tradesman, etc
- Kings emerged and city-states formed
- Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing called cuneiform
- Gods and goddesses were credited for the natural world
- World's first surviving "epic" was the "Epic of Gilgamesh" which was a big flood
- Sumerians first developed the idea of time and divided time into 60 mins per hour and 60 secs per min
- They also developed a calendar based on the moon's cycle
- Sumerians built ziggurats which were temples built on top of a "mountain" of Earth
Outstanding notes, Avery!
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