HIST 130 Lecture Notes - Polytropic Process, Fertile Crescent, Rationality
6 Dec 2012
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Homo sapiens begin in africa and spread out. By 1,000ad cross the pacific to easter. Agricultural revolution planting own berries and domesticating animals (own form of genetic modification) Beginning in fertile crescent (eurasia) biodiversity, good climate; goat, sheep, cows. Unclear: extinct or migrated food source; more people, more responsibility, need to depend on source. Cave paintings for early years difficult to explain for sure what"s happening; use modern understanding which may not be accurate. Bricks exactly the same size workmanship. 1500bc first alphabet, consonants only; first vowels in greek. Cities: more settlement, more population, more specialization and disease incredibly unhealthy. Uruk (fertile crescent) 70,000 people; the size of downtown core, Vancouver about the same amount of trash per person. Axial age: identified 1949 by jaspers says that there"s a time around 500bc (between 800-200) where all great religions are created; intellectual and religious change. Elijah 1000bc; zoroaster and upanishads 800-500; confucius and buddha 500; socrates, plato, aristotle, zhuangai, mencius 500-200bc.
