HIST 1001 Chapter : West Civ
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What is western civilization?- polytheistic 1/22/2014 4:32:00 pm. 8,400 bc jericho: population of 1,000-2,000 ppl more like a village, located north of dead sea. 6,500 bc catalhoyak- city in asia minor(modern day turkey), city with no streets. *3,200 bc- first written documents written by the sumerians in. Mesopatamia- region between 2 rivers (tigris and euphrates), aka iraq. Had to figure out how to harnest the rivers and bring it to the crops they dig series of canals to move the water and takes a lot of labor/organization. If you wanna live there you need army, govt, coordination. Danger: floods bc of the 2 two rivers, your whole village could be flooded. Need a lot of people living close together near the river, army, to keep track of this write it. Very easy for people to come from the outside and attack. Mesopotamian civilizations: sumerians- called themselves the black headed ppl, akkadians, assyrians, babylonians. Built entirely of mud bricks, many levels.
