HIST 205 Lecture 25: whole semester
22 Dec 2015
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Hist 205 friday september 4th 2015 rw mathisen ancient mediterranean civilizations oxford university press primary is from the period that you are studying secondary is a modern source hunter gatherer cultures (paleolithic period) Not sedintary following herds, never stay in one place, natural resources exhausted. Don"t settle in same place - nothing was ever permanent (portable) Limited population growth last ice age (neolithic around 10000 bc) Agriculture - no more nomadic cultures - start to have permanent buildings and more reliability and better quality of life. Become more sophisticated (classes of people, what are you good at?) fertile crescent. Sumerian appeared first by persian gulf (5300-2000 bc) Developed system of writing cuneiform about 3500 bc. Nile was critical to the flourishment of the culture. Annual flood of the nile was critical to boost agriculture and sewage and communcation and irrigation. Some exceptions represent foreign words and concepts mediterranean. First civilizations were near the fertile crescent in the east.
