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| 6545380114 | Hominids | -appeared 3 to 4 million years ago in southern/eastern Africa -humanlike creatures called primates -Mary and louis leaky excavated hominid fossils in the great rift valley -"Lucy", an australopithecine fossil, found in 1974 | 0 | |
| 6545397215 | Homo Sapiens | -homo sapiens, modern humans emerged 100,000 to 200,000 years ago -earliest variant, the Neanderthals, appeared 100,000 to 250,000 years ago -more advanced Cro-Magnon, appeared 60,000 to 100,000 years ago during the Paleolithic Age | 1 | |
| 6545417145 | Paleolithic Era- Old Stone Age | -predates agricultural societies -social groups: extended families grew into clans; clans mixed with neighboring groups to form tribes with sophisticated organization, including chiefs, leaders, and religious figures -organized warfare with progressively more advanced and diverse weapons: rocks, clubs, knives, spears, axes, and bows and arrows -ability to control fire -worship of deities; religious rituals included sacrifice to gods, goddesses, and spirits -expression through arts and music; examples include cave paintings and flutes | 2 | |
| 6545462661 | Pastoral society | -these societies are typically nomadic and focused on carrying for herds and flocks -they are more socially stratified than hunters and gatherers, but not as established as agriculturalists of the early river valley civilizations -various pastoral societies developed throughout Afro-Eurasia depending on local plants and animal life -pastoralists created problems when overgrazing, which led to erosion in some areas | 3 | |
| 6545510725 | Neolithic Era- Origins | -earliest evidence of sedentary agriculture dates to between 10,00 and 8,000 BCE -called new stone age (8000-5000 bce) the origins of agricultural society -domestication of animals and cultivation of crops -the earliest method of cultivation was slash-burn agriculture | 4 | |
| 6545528888 | Neolithic Era- Culture | -agriculture allowed for a food surplus, which in turn led to an increase in population -Jericho, in modern-day Israel, was one of the world's first Neolithic villages -early industries developed in pottery, metallurgy, and textiles | 5 | |
| 6545545024 | Bantu Migrations | -movement of africans across the continent of Africa (3000 bce- 500 ce) -Niger-Congo related languages, and compilations, spoken by Kru, Wolof, Ibo, Mande, and Yorba, all parts of the Bantu family of languages -Bantus reached their limits by 1000 bce; established decentralized governments - "segmentary societies" - that governed through family and kinship groups -each village (usually 100 people) was ruled by a council made up of male heads of families, and a village chief; a group of villages formed a district (usually the highest form of government) | 6 | |
| 6545572855 | Bronze Age | -metallurgy originated with the use of copper -in the Neolithic era, copper was combined with tin to create bronze -bronze tools and weapons were first used in Mesopotamia (c 400-3000 bce) | 7 | |
| 6545597864 | Hittites | -the Hittites were from Ancient Anatolia and established their empire around 1600 bc at its height, mid 14th century bc, under Suppilulium I, it included most of Asia Minor and parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia. The empire ended with the end of the Bronze Age and broke into several independent "Neo-Hittite" city states, some of which survived until the 8th century bc -after 1180 bc, turmoil in the Levant took place and it is believed to have been associated with the unexpected arrival of the Sea Peoples -Hittite civilization is known most from cuneiform texts, and from documents found in Egypt and the middle east | 8 |
