HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Homo Habilis, Yoruba Religion, Popol Vuh
14 Jan 2019
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World history is about what happened in the past but how it all comes together today. Afroeurasia- the world that pre-modern people believed they lived in. Indian ocean, pacific ocean, and atlantic ocean. A story where everything started and where human beings came from that tells us a great deal about culture. Hominid: group consisting of all modern and extinct great apes. 3 main evolutionary groups: present day gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans. About 6 million years ago in the region of africa a creature began to walk on 2 legs for reasons better for life, the descendants of this got better walking on 2 legs. Since their hands were free they began using their hands and starting making tools which taught their descendants. Those began to learn how to use fire and started cooking their food, different hominids developed differently in different groups.
