Early World Civilization Exam 1
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- Where was the origin of modern humans?
- East Central Africa
- The ancestor of modern humans was?
- Astrolo Pithicus
- Capabilities of Homo Erectus?
- Was bipedal, could speak, use fire, used cooperative operations
- Cave Murals
- 25,000 years old. Pictures of sympathetic magic
- The effects of the end of the last ice age
- Animals moved North which led to a decline in food supply, which created alot of food production
- The origin of food production
- Created villages/humanity. First food storage
- The emergence of the village
- Because animals moved North and humans grew and stored food which led to a village
- Causes of early wars
- Inequality. Some have more than others. Nomads came after food supplies
- The invention of writing
- Wrote on tablets or blocks of clay. Was called cuneiform system. 3000 BC writing reached full development
- Early Sumerian Government
- Invented cities-Had a "city state" South=Sumerian. Middle=Akkad. North=Assyria
- Hammurabi
- Made a code of laws that included retaliation
- Character of the Assyrians
- Conquered most of Mesopotamia. Very big on war. Had trouble paying their military
- The chronology of ancient Mesopotamia (people who dominated)
- Sumarians-Akkadians-Old Babylonians-Kassites-Assyrians-New Babylonians
- New Babylonian astrology
- Created idea of celebrating New Years. They kept accurate records of astrology that were continued later by the Greeks and Romans