WELD 174AB Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Cambrian Explosion, Fertile Crescent, Edward Burnett Tylor
31 Jul 2020
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Paleozoic era(540-250m): fish, animals, land, reptiles, insects, extinction (climate) Task 1 history chapter 1 the earth. Charles darwin thought earth had to be some 300 million years. Cambrian explosion: sudden presence of fossils starting 542 million years ago -> Development of language and more: preliterate civilization(sir edward burnett tylor (1832 1917): civilization before farming and settlement. Fertile crescent: region in the middle east called ancient mesopotamian and the. Lindberg says scientific thinking cannot occur without written records. Invention of writing: writing systems are combination of pictograms(=pictures that resemble the persons, animals and objects they represent) & phonograms(=signs to represent sounds of the spoken language) Socrates: philosopher in ancient greece -> books make students lazy and less proper studying (= ironic because plato documented these dialogs of socrates orally would have changed the wording of the story would never have survived the.
