ANTA01H3 Lecture 11: ANTA01 Lecture 11.docx
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Civilization have 7 categorizations that we look at to call something a civilization y occur mainly in places where we had early agriculture. First civilizations seemed to start there y fertile crescent: c-shaped region around the end of the medeterian sea. Rivers. y mesoptoania, one of the first civilizations, urik, 5500 first city. y cradles of civilzaiotn. Early agriculture areas. y 7 defining characterisitcs: densely populated settlements, prior to upper paleolithic, they just lived in random cmaps. In the upper paleolithic, we saw the first evidence of more permanent dwellings. Tsuwatsi, their population density was . 41 people per square mile, 2. 4 people per mile. With the development of agriculture, people become more tied to patches of land, became more sedentary, increases of population dnesit. y this is why the civilizations startd where agriculture happened. Increased the carrying capcity of those pices of land: teotihuacan: aincient city at e height was around abougt 2,200 1,350.
