HIS101H5 Lecture 3: FIRST CIVILZATIONS
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The earliest of the civilization emerged around 3500 b. c. e. to 3000 b. c. e. in three places. One was the cradle of middle east civilization expressed in many and competing city states of summer in southern mesopotamia. Norte chico was a distinctive civilization in many ways: Food crops such as squash ,beans ,guava all grown by inland people in the river valleys using irrigation agriculture. Civilizations had the roots in the agricultural revolution. The need to organize large scale irrigation project was a stimulus for the earliest civilizations as the suggested by historians. Archeologists have found that the more complex water control systems appeared long after state and civilizations had already been established. It was resource form agriculture that made possible one of the most distinctive features of first civilizations cities. Cities then were central to lost or the first civilizations through varying degrees. They functioned as centres for production of culture including : art, architecture, literature, ritual, ceremony.