HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Neolithic Revolution, Thermometer, Fertile Crescent
5 Dec 2020
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Beginning of the earth and the first civilizations. 542 million years ago: cambrian explosion fossils in geological records. 10. 000 bc: neolithic revolution from nomadic hunter-gatherer to farming and settlement. 3. 000 bc: fertile crescent region in the middle east with a high level of civilization. Preliterate civilizations: know-how understanding instead of theoretical knowledge, fluidity of knowledge, limited to 2 generations orally transmitting practical skills. Preceded by photo-writing use of symbols to represent entities without linguistic information. Combination of pictograms (picture resembling something) and phonograms (sign that represents a sound or syllable of spoken language) Writing provides an external memory about the knowledge available at a certain point of time. Socrates: availability of books makes students lazy. The reader: only a few people had the ability to learn how to read. Scholastic method student unquestioningly memorize and recite texts. Grouped at the base of 5 (natural number) Greeks: 1-24 based on the alphabet (different for calculations)
