CAS HI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anatomically Modern Human, Fertile Crescent, Hyksos
28 Jan 2019
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Homo sapiens sapiens emerges from africa and gradually spreads out to asia, Among those, indo-europeans come down to the fertile. Hyksos ( foreigner ) are, probably, indo-europeans who were brought into. Asians had natural advantage of having abundant iron. To purify, people had to burn iron at a steadily high temperature, which was a long, hard process. Indo-europeans started the bronze age when came down to fertile crescent. People acquired bronze, extremely hard metal unlike the previous metals used, by mixing metals with certain proportion. People made spear, instead of sword, out of bronze since bronze was relatively rare. Natural resource necessary for making bronze, tin, was abundant only in england. No longer sufficient in natural barrier, egypt now was vulnerable. Egyptians began conquering since good offense is a good defense . Out of the bubble, egyptian starts an empire. However, egyptian could never make into mesopotamia. Aggressive competition between indo-european and egyptian began.
