CLA232H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Neolithic Revolution, Fertile Crescent, Indo-European Languages
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4 the greeks before history, 12,000 1200 b. c. The end of the last ice age, 13,000 9500 b. c. Most recent ice age is 35,000 years ago, ending 13,000 years ago. Mini-ice age occurred which greeks had to deal with, though it was warmer there than the rest of europe. Followed animal herds as edible plants were only viable in the summer. The origins of agriculture, 9500 5000 b. c. The fertile crescent left behind from the ice age left viable, water-rich soil. As grains became viable food, communities became larger, gmo"s became viable to sustain the larger crowds. Farmers would be introduced to animal diseases, gain immunity, and be better off than the hunter-gatherers, so most joined the farmers. The neolithic revolution is the shift from hunter-gatherer to sedentary villager life. Indo-european languages include ones like sanskrit, greek, latin, etc. Proto-indo-european would be the precursor (ancestor) to all of these languages.
