Agriculture The beginning of agriculture with the domestication and farming of wild plants of wide success and earliest prominence occurred in the Mediterranean habitat of the Fertile Crescent. Early crops of the Fertile Crescent included barley‚ emmer wheat‚ einkorn wheat‚ peas‚ lentil‚ chickpeas‚ flax‚ and muskmelon. This change from hunter-gatherer to farmer was subtle at first and experimental‚ as the outcome was unknown and unforeseen to early farmers. To-be farmers would pick wild plants
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Sumerian/Mesopotamia‚ Egyptian‚ Harappan and Ancient China. All of these civilizations were located on fertile river beds to make planting crops much easier. They all made technological advances in their time span and set the ground for future generations. The Sumerian civilization also known as Mesopotamia/The Fertile Crescent is located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers….this is how it gets its name the Fertile Crescent. The climate for this civilization is dry except in the area between the rivers. The
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Global Civ Midterm Study Guide CH.1 * What does an archeologist do? * They evaluate settlements and study artifacts * What is cultural diffusion? * The spread of aspects of culture from one area of the world to another * What is irrigation and where did it start? * Method of transporting water to crops; started in valleys of Nile‚ Tigris and Euphrates * What is the Neolithic Revolution? * The important shift from food gathering to food producing *
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One motif seen in many traditions around the world is that of destruction of mankind with the help of a great flood which is sent in the form of a supernatural force in order to wipe them out for their misdeeds. Amidst all the existing variations of the flood stories‚ the most renowned is undoubtedly the account from the Biblical book of Genesis. Although this version of the story shares many similarities in terms of the structure that it follows with pre-existing accounts such as Babylonian epic
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unknown. I would travel to the unheralded ancient city of Eridu at the mouth of the Euphrates River in contemporary Iraq‚ arguably the oldest antediluvian city on Earth. Eridu was the first of a series of city-states throughout Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent that comprised the first ancient civilization‚ Sumer. Archeologists have discovered historical evidence suggesting that the Sumerians were the first to develop a reliable writing system‚ cuneiform. They practiced slavery‚ observed religions‚
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hours in a day are the standard‚ international measurements for time. Whether you’re in Europe‚ in China‚ or in Brazil‚ time is measured in the same units. But who came up with these measurements? The people of Sumer‚ at the southern end of the Fertile Crescent where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet the Persian Gulf. These people were some of the first to develop astronomy and mathematics‚ studying the sky and documenting the movements of planets and stars. Their number system was based on six‚
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an efficient mechanism to sustain a society‚ which‚ fundamentally is a series of institutions and systems agreed upon by the members of the group. One would reasonably presume the ancient markets—imagine the agora in Athens or a bazaar in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia—necessitated systemic organization and coordination‚ bringing people together in ways to facilitate exchanges and‚ on balance‚ improving society (see also Lane‚ 1991; and McMillan‚ 2002‚ p. 4‚ who hints the oldest discovered artifact
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3. Jared Diamond analyzes several factors that he believes contributed to the existing balance of the world’s resources. In order to answer Yali’s question‚ he speculates about the role of geography‚ technology‚ cultural diffusion‚ agriculture‚ culture and biology. 4. The Maori evolved differently because of population and leadership differences. The Maori conquered the Moriori due to its advanced weapons and technology and the Moriori lost due to its lack of leadership and simple weapons.
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Americans‚ Africans‚ and Eurasians in the last 500 years. Just as some regions proved much more suitable than others for the origins of food production‚ the ease of its spread also differed greatly around the world. Eurasia’s west-east axis allowed Fertile Crescent crops to establish agriculture and arise independently in eastern Asia‚ whereas Africa and the Americas’ north-south axis halted the spread of domestic plants and animals. Regions located east and west of each other at the same latitudes contained
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Exam 1: 1. List 2 data sources researchers use to estimate historical standards of living and explain what they can infer from these sources. List three indicators of economic development other than National Income measures (NI‚ GDP‚ or GNP‚ level‚ growth rate‚ or per capita) that are of interest to economists and explain what can be inferred from each of these indicators. ( Topic 1) 2. Explain in detail 3 weaknesses of per capita GNP (or GDP) as a measure of economic well-being. Although this
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