Humans Try to Control Nature
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Any ideas how?
Old Stone Age
That old pale stone
Were generally nomads or wandered from place to
place in search of food.
How did they get their food?
Hunter/gatherers
They lived in clans or tribes
Had oral language
Technology: digging tools, knives, needles, harpoons,
etc.
The ability to use FIRE!
Any idea why this is so important?
From: Fertile Crescent
To: All Continents
-except Antartica
Shift from food gathering to food production
Slash and Burn Farming: cut trees and grasses and
burn to clear field, next year move on to a new location
Domestication: taming animals by farms and pastoral
nomads (cattle ranchers)
Irrigation: diversion of water to crop
fields by means of canals and ditches
Jarmo (in Iraq)
Zargos Mtns have good environmental conditions for
wild grains and animals
Discovered by Robert Braidwood
on population…
on jobs…
on nomadic way of life…
Places near water. Why?
Advantages
Cultural development
Food surplus
Protection
Religion
Access to goods
Easy Travel
Brings animals
Disadvantages
Flood
Fire
Natural disasters
Disease
Easy for enemies to reach
you
Brings animals
Allepo
Jericho
Nippur
Ur
Cities
Record Keeping
Large population
Tracks laws, debts,
Trade center
payments, etc
Writing needed
Scribes
Cuneiform
Job specialization
You do one job
Artisan
Institutions
Government
Religion
economy
Advanced Technology
arts and architecture,
public works,
bronze
Changes in Physical
Environment
Weather Changes.
Floods and other
natural
catastrophes.
Interaction With
People
War
Building of CityStates
Empire building
Trade