PSYC 403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Peloponnese, Anachronism, Roman Mythology

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 403
• Professor: Rex Brynen

Document Summary

Judaic culture: persian empire, greece, roman empire starts. Timeline of new era: began at 0 ad when jesus was born, fall of rome, rise of islamic culture, middle ages, renaissance, silicon age/ info-web virtualism. Pre-civilizations (i. e. , nomadic: aboriginals in australia, hunter-gatherer communities, nomadic cultures, migrating, temporarily living in caves. In europe: chauvet caves, wall paintings, religious cults. Europe 7000 years ago in england: stonehenge: burial ground in the ancient world. Beginning of civic lifestyle: neolithic age: agriculture, domesticating animals (and themselves! ), farming pottery: mentality changed with this new style of life religious rights and rituals, traditions emerged. Jericho near dead sea one of first early cities: greece, egypt, far east, china, india, summerians of mesopotamia. Instead of the alphabet we started using little pictures = pictographic symbols: some cultures stayed longer in the pictographic symbols, while some evolved from pictures into phonographic symbols (closer to words, sumerians eventually started to cuneiform script.