History Review Through 600 Ce

I. History Review through 600 CE A. Nomads: Follow the Food 1. Satisfy basic needs: shelter and food a. No cities, didn’t know how to farm 2. Foraging societies (hunter-gatherer clans): hunt and gather b. Small group of people traveled from point to point based on the climate availability of plants and animals in an area c. Limitations: i. Capacity of their surroundings ii. Inability to store food long-term 3. Pastoral Societies: Taming the animals d. Characterized by the domestication of animals e. Found in mountainous regions, small-scale farming f. Culture and society iii. Major institution: extended family iv. Women: few rights, yet society was more egalitarian than the ones in the future v. Stratification and social status: based off of one’s herd in pastoral society vi. No towns=continually searching for new grazing areas and water for herds B. Settling Down: The Neolithic Revolution (10000BCE-8000BCE) 4. What Came before? Paleolithic (“old”) Era (10000 BCE) g. Homo Sapiens Sapiens 5. Transition period, Neolithic (“New Stone”) Revolution/Agricultural Revolution: nomadic lifestyles-> sedentary (not migratory or nomadic) and agricultural lifestyles 6. People figured out how to cultivate plants, domesticate plants and animals h. Rely on a varied and constant supply of food encouraging them to stay in the same place for a long period of time 7. Effects: i. People lived in close proximities of each together=> sense of unity, build and sustain cultural traditions j. Unlike nomadic societies people were tied to a particular piece of land=> the idea developed that of property in terms of ownership 8. Important consequence of Agriculture: A food