HIST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Behavioral Modernity, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens
Document Summary
Lucy: oldest preserved hominid remains: 3. 2 million years old, found in ethiopia, australopithecine. Otzi: the ice man: found near the alps, 53,000 years old. Periodization: breaking history up by schemes: evolutionary ages, hominids: 7 million years ago, australopithecines, homo habilus, homo erectus, homo sapiens: Catal huyuk: early farming village in turkey: evidence of complex religion. Judgement/ negative connotation of lack of civilization. 3000 bc: post-agricultural revolution, late neolithic period, early bronze. Sumerians: south mesopotamia: city states, defined by semitic language. Security: walls and trenches, need for external resources. Religion and politics: ziggurat of ur: center of worship, sargon of akkad: organized empire, hammurabi"s code of babylon. Technology: any specialized knowledge by which humans manipulate environment: cuneiform: hybrid writing system. Flooding of the nile: late summer, irrigation, alluvium: silt/ fertile soil, nilometer: staircase to river with height markers. Pharaohs: dominates large territories through bureaucracy from capital, earthly gods link worlds, ma"at: cosmic order/ justice.
