World History I Exam I Review
WORLD HISTORY I EXAM REVIEW
CHAPTER 1: THE EARLIEST HUMAN SOCIETIES
PALEOLITHIC ERA: ~8000 BC Old Stone Age; earliest people
Hunting and gathering food, vitamins, and minerals
Buffalo, deer, herd animals that could be tracked
Stayed next to rivers so they could follow the animas as they migrated (nomadic)
Small societies
Around 50-150
Support of environment
Large enough for biological diversity
Communication by sound (ghost communication)
Slow development of technology
Houses: caves, teepees, tents; transportable
Developments
Primitive, raw materials
Domestic animals were a measure of wealth
Fire gave warmth, food, doubled work days, chemical changes
NEOLITHIC ERA: ~8000-7000 BC New Stone Age; shorter era; used stone and heat/fire
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
Most important human development
Most successful society(river valley
Grain(feed animals, beer (1st) which lasts a long time, bread (2nd), plant more
Huge changes
Staying in one place
Storage of crops
Development of leaders to govern order because of age, experience, family, skills
Basic government
Private property gave new wealth
Fight for property to protect from invaders and was given crops
RELIGION(ANIMISM
Increased role of women (gatherers and taking care of children/home)
Childbirth is the #1 killer of women until 1900s
Breastmilk until about 5 ½ years (weening age)
Roles change; men do stuff close to home and women work at home (manufacture clothes)
Goddesses and Priestesses involved in Mimic Ritual
Beginning of supernatural beliefs
Copying a spiritual, meaningful reference
LANGUAGE: majority/most useful language that people learn to give them the most benefits of a spoken (trade requires more communication)
Pictography: picture words
Conventional Sign: start as pictograph and make it a symbol by convention
Phonetic Language: sign=sound; literacy goes up
CHAPTER 2: THE RISE OF THE STATE
Semitic Peoples: language group; carry culture; people in between/not
CHAPTER 1: THE EARLIEST HUMAN SOCIETIES
PALEOLITHIC ERA: ~8000 BC Old Stone Age; earliest people
Hunting and gathering food, vitamins, and minerals
Buffalo, deer, herd animals that could be tracked
Stayed next to rivers so they could follow the animas as they migrated (nomadic)
Small societies
Around 50-150
Support of environment
Large enough for biological diversity
Communication by sound (ghost communication)
Slow development of technology
Houses: caves, teepees, tents; transportable
Developments
Primitive, raw materials
Domestic animals were a measure of wealth
Fire gave warmth, food, doubled work days, chemical changes
NEOLITHIC ERA: ~8000-7000 BC New Stone Age; shorter era; used stone and heat/fire
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
Most important human development
Most successful society(river valley
Grain(feed animals, beer (1st) which lasts a long time, bread (2nd), plant more
Huge changes
Staying in one place
Storage of crops
Development of leaders to govern order because of age, experience, family, skills
Basic government
Private property gave new wealth
Fight for property to protect from invaders and was given crops
RELIGION(ANIMISM
Increased role of women (gatherers and taking care of children/home)
Childbirth is the #1 killer of women until 1900s
Breastmilk until about 5 ½ years (weening age)
Roles change; men do stuff close to home and women work at home (manufacture clothes)
Goddesses and Priestesses involved in Mimic Ritual
Beginning of supernatural beliefs
Copying a spiritual, meaningful reference
LANGUAGE: majority/most useful language that people learn to give them the most benefits of a spoken (trade requires more communication)
Pictography: picture words
Conventional Sign: start as pictograph and make it a symbol by convention
Phonetic Language: sign=sound; literacy goes up
CHAPTER 2: THE RISE OF THE STATE
Semitic Peoples: language group; carry culture; people in between/not