PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 1 And 2
Document Summary
Characteristics of civilization: sense of belonging- citizenship, organization, having a written system: laws, agricultural system: stability. Human species first emerged in history in africa. Middle east was seen as the cradle of early civilizations. Early civilization in mesopotamia was mostly found in the marshy areas- sumer: western africa- mesopotamia, means land between waters, tigris and euphrates are the rivers between mesopotamia. Geography and landscape affect civilization: mountains on the north, deserts in the south, with this geography made this land somewhat isolated. The cities of sumer were in competition with each other regularly: control of land, resources, persian gulf, examples of early organization warfare, babylon, ~1700 bc- was able to dominate sumner. Egyptian civilizations: nile, pharaoh, old kingdom ( 3100-2200 bce, middle kingdom (2100-1700 bce, new kingdom- (1600-1100 bce) 1/20/17: pyramids, osiris, isis, akhenaten, aten, monotheism, nile river, was seen as a god, begins somewhere in the mountains of east africa, the geography of egypt is mostly desert.
