SLA104H1 Lecture 2: SLA104 Lecture 2
5 May 2017
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History: traditions, culture, origins of modern civilization, evolving and changing over time, progress, developments. Society changed very slowly over time: due to self support and lack of other connections, need of transportation, communication and technology, the geography of the place moulded and stories about them (braudel) Stories about the sea and the sailors: marinic"s tower, a monument of love, the bazaar was adapted from the persians, persia greece rome. Myths: symbolic, potentially true, security, identity, language and story telling, civilization has a myth about themselves. Agriculture and its effect on society: hunt, mesolithic period, climatic instability, in neolithic times, some species of plants and animals became domesticated, nomadic turned to domesticated, greece: farming attested 5500 bce. First civilizations: compared to neolithic cultures, civ. are larger, more populated and centralized, civilization city, leader, law, infrastructure, communication of the law. Populations changed to bronze: bronze age sword, greece.
