MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Taxonomy, Homo Erectus, Artstor

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: Page Dubois

Document Summary

Study guides for midterm, mmw11, fall 2016 dubois. In this section of the course we studied the emergence of human beings, over many millions of years, from african apes to hominids, to modern human beings. We looked at the paleolithic period, and at the neolithic stage of social development, with the emergence of agriculture and settled life, bringing both gains and losses: identification of images---review on artstor. You should be able to give a short account of such terms as: bi-pedalism hominid. In this section we studied the emergence of states in mesopotamia and egypt and the ideologies (myths, religions) that supported them. Then we followed the history of the israelites to the beginnings of judaism, paying particular attention to the relation between their religious ideas, their history, and their situation among the peoples of the ancient near east. The following represent the sorts of questions that will be on the midterm, not the midterm itself!