Foundations

=Foundations of World Civilizations: 8000BC-600BC=


 * Main idea:** Environments role in the creation of the first civilizations

The development of humans from basic hunters and gatherers to farmers and finally to successful civilizations was greatly aided by the environment. The environment around early man greatly attributed to there success. According historian Jared Diamond man success was greatly helped by "geographic luck". Jared Diamond said that depending on the environment in which the early humans existed in allowed for either a faster or slower progression. For the humans that migrated out of Africa to the Middle East found easily cultivated plants like wheat and barley growing naturally in the area and they also found large easily domesticated animals such as swine and sheep. This helpful environment aided the early humans more than anything else did in the creation of the first civilizations.

Part 1: Neolithic Revolution
Starting at around 8000 B.C.E comunities in boh the Middle East and in china. People converted from a hunter-gatherer soiety to ann agricltural society. The ideas were developed independantly and as time passed more people to practice ths also.

Part 2: First Civilizations
Mesopotamia Mesopotamia was located between the Tigris and Euphates rivers. It is known as the first civilization. The earlist record of the civilization date back to 5300 BC

Early Egypt

Early China

Indus River Valley