HIST 1001 : History Exam 1
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History: the study of people who write, begins with the people who developed writing: sumerians. Sumerians: domesticated plants/animals, agriculture, civilization emerges through this development with less starvation and better nutrition, fundamentals of civilization, 1. First civilization: sumeria (8500 bc, agriculture: by the rivers due to no rain, mesopotamia, tigris, euphrates, emmer (earliest form of wheat) Could be pounded into flour to make bread and stored in the winter time: neolithic period. Developed a calendar with 12 months: measuring distance. Number system based on the number 12: fundamentals of writing 3000 bc, from priests. Way of recording who owes what: taxes: reason why writing came to existence. Cuneiform: wedge shaped writing that developed: government, 1st= priests. Began to specialize: kings derived due to outsiders. Usually warriors: see a differ in society. Difference in wealth with a formation of class: needed a way to regulate society. Look to the gods: pessimistic relationship, sumeria was not stable.
