HIST 1010 Lecture 13: world history-test 1
12 Jan 2017
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Describe various creation narratives traced in this chapter, including the narrative of human evolution, and explain why they differ. Trace the major developments in hominid evolution that resulted in the traits that make. Describe human ways of life and cultural developments from 200,000 to 12,000 years ago. Compare the ways communities around the world shifted to settled agriculture and. Analyze the significance this shift had for social organization. Australopithecines- hominid species that appeared 3 million years ago and, unlike other animals, walked on two legs. Their brain capacity was a little less than one-third of a modern human"s or about the size of the brain capacity of today"s african apes. Although not humans, they carried the genetic and biological material out of which modern humans would later emerge. Creation narratives- narratives constructed by different cultures that draw on their belief systems and available evidence to explain the origins of the world and humanity.
