How did the human race surive?

Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution!

• Before this period, hunting and gathering was king!

• People soon learned it was more efficient to survive by farming.

• Farming was practiced all over the world at the same time, with the OGs being Mesopotamia.

• Now people started creating settlements, with the intention of storaging crops and a focus on religion.

• Food production and population grew.

• These settlements focused near RIVERS:

  • Indus

  • Nile

  • Tigris and Euphrates

  • Yellow

River Valley Civilizations

• Pyramids, Ziggurats, Palaces for the elite.

• Hierachy.

• Those on top write the laws for governing and taxes.

First Civilizations

• Showed hierachy and punishments.

• 1st ever recorded set of laws.

Code of Hammurabi

• Mesopotamia: Cuneiform

• Egypt: Hieroglyphics.

• Literature: Epic of Gilgamesh, Book of the Dead, and the Rig Veda

Writing!

• Hinduism

• Polytheism and Monotheism

• Persians = zoroastrianism

• Hebrews = Judaism

• Pastoralism... fostered important connections and cultural exchanges

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Religion