Today in West Civ class we reviewed for our test that is tomorrow. We went over the power point that we talked about earlier this week. We talked about what we needed to know for the test. Here is what we talked about:
-200,000 years ago a human species emerged in southwestern Africa
-Prehistory is the time when things were not written down
- Earliest prehistoric age is the Paleolithic Age
-Neolithic Age was marked by the advanced tool making and beginnings of agriculture.
-The Agriculture Revolution was a shift from itinerant hunting/gathering to more permanent settlements centered on agriculture.
-Populations rose due to increased ability to care for young children
-Invention of the wheel and plow made it possible to produce enough food for storage.
-Mesopotamia was where Iraq, Iran and Syria are now.
-Sumer was the first civilization (located between the Tigris and Euphrates River)
-Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing, known as "cuneiform"
-World's first (surviving) epic was Sumerian "Epic of Gigamesh" told of the great flood.
-King Hammurabi of Babylon created a series of laws known as "Hammurabi's Code"
-Indo-Europeans were people who expanded away from the fertile crescent and introduced the horse to the near east.
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