foundations of western civ

• prehistoric humans 
• around 40,000 bc-10,000 bc
• we were still chasing our food
• there was some examples of money and trade
• had basic technoligy like fire making and tools made of stone and bone.
• had some examples of art and religion.
• people were nomatic 
• new stone age 10,000-4,000 bc
• we begin to see humans to expirment with technoligy 
• we also see humans start to settle down in one place .
• they started the invention or aguculture( you pull out the bad stuff take the god and replant the good stuff.)
• domestication of animals. 
• males have some jobs and females have other jobs.
• begins specialized labor
• there were no female leaders
• males are in leadership roles
• invention of irragation
• Mesopotamia 4000-1000 bc
• the fertail creasent
• through irragation they cN CONTROLL HOW MUCH WATER THEIR CROPS GET. 
•   they are polythesistic 
• we will see temples built to these gods 
• temples are usually built in the center 
• epic of  gildamesh - a story were we used to explain the story of the people lives in Mesopotamia. at one time the human being decided to write something done and made a story. the theme of this story was immortality 
•  they mummified them selves 
• sumer 
• earliest city builders 
• they were the first to figure out agriculture
•  created the wheel
• created the first system of writing called (cuneiform)
• started to watch the stars and the movement of the sun 
• they also started calenders
• the acidians started the first empire 
•    babylon
•  earliest known written laws 
• crimanil laws harsh punishments
• uniform system of law
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