HIST 1001 : History 1001 Test 1
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History 1001- wednesday 8/26/15: governmental structure- how the government is set up and how it benefits. Western civilization: what is civilization, latin civis = citizen, inhabitant of a city, civitas = collection of citizens, state, civilization is human organization. People form themselves in communities in which they develop themselves and are given protection. They give back to the communities through fighting in armies and paying taxes: the earliest places we see civilizations is in the middle east. Idea of the west: ancient to modern: differentiation, mutual influence, greece and persia, rome and the greek world, christendom and the dar al islam, europe and asia. 3. 5 million years ago: extinct genus of the hominids. 3. 2 million years ago: meaning upright man earliest fossil evidence, homo erectus (ca. 1. 5 million years ago) years ago: homo sapiens neanderthalensis (ca. 500,000 years ago to 25,000: bones that represent about 40% of a female skeleton, homo sapiens sapiens (ca.
