HIST 010 Lecture : History 10 Lecture Notes
Document Summary
August 24, 2011: homo habilis, 2. 5 million years ago, discovered in the 1960"s, larger brain, simple stone tools, cooperation lived in smaller groups and worked together better, communication gestures and vocal cries. Early cities along river basins: tigris and euphrates basin (modern iraq) Indus river basin (modern pakistan: northern nile river (modern egypt) One of the world"s first town (c. 7,500 bc) Fed from the hills and mountains of the region. Temperature can rise over 100 degrees f. Tigris and euphrates: early settlers wandered into the land between the two rivers, natural vegetation and wildlife kept people well fed, rivers provided fresh drinking water and a place to bathe, people settled down. Irrigation: invented a system of irrigation, began to farm the land. Flooding waters of the tigris and euphrates rivers deposited rich silt in it"s alluvial plain. Farmers developed a system of levees, canals, and water-lifting devices: control rivers, store water. Result green fields that produced high crop yields.
