World History Notes
Subject:
World History [1]
Tags:
culture [2]
Civilizations [3]
Science [4]
Cultural studies [5]
Fertile Crescent [6]
anthropology [7]
Human Evolution [8]
Prehistory [9]
Technology [10]
Tigris [11]
Pictogram [12]
Writing [13]
Pre-History Time before written records Artifacts ? Remains of a Manmade object Culture ? Way of life. Paleolithic (old stone) Age ? 2.5 million-10,000BC Oldest stone tools, evidence of the 1st people, used fire. Neandertals ? 100,000-30,000 BC Buried their dead with objects, suggest belief in an afterlife. Neolithic (new stone) Age ? 8,000-4,000 BC Systematic agriculture Probably by women, raised animals, grew crops This would facilitate the development of all civilization. Characteristics of Civilization 1. Cities ? Internal production, trade 2. Government ? Organized means of order 3. Religion ? Structured system of belief: nature, existence, right to rule. 4. Social Structure ? Division of labor-trade Class orders-upper, lower, slaves