ASIA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Altaic Languages, Erlitou Culture, Homo Sapiens
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Domesticate plants for food, animals for food and labor. Learn what the gods want and do that. Use writing to accumulate wisdom, pass it down to the next generation. Trade what you have for what you don"t have. Spread your social model and declare it superior to everyone else"s. By large rivers flowing from the himalaya mountains. All of the earliest major cultures from south asia to east asia originated along river valleys formed by rivers flowing out of the himalayas. Homo habilis (handy man) - 2. 5 to 1 million years ago. Homo erectus - 1 million to 100,000 years ago, maybe later. All humans were coming out of africa 50,000 years ago. Arrived in east asia at about 30,000 years ago. Domesticate plants for food, animals for food and labor - > an early form of technology. 50,000 years ago: the arrival of culturally modern homo sapiens. Habilis, erectus, and sapiens lived in paleolithic age.
