From Prehistory to Civilization 3000-1200 B.C.

From prehistory to civilization 3000-1200 B.C.

• "Language, religion, art, technology, farming, family life, and village communities-all these basic features of human existence originated in prehistoric times"
• The earliest development led around 3,000 B.C. to the rise of the first civilizations-those of Mesopotamia and Egypt
• The Temple of Amon- constructed about 1600 B.C. near the Egyptian City of Thebes, remains the world's largest religious building even today
• Prehistory: the period before history was recorded through written documents
• 200,00 years ago appeared a human species probably southwestern Africa
• 14,000 years ago it had become the worldwide human race of the present day
• Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age-the earliest and longest period of prehistory when humans used simple stone tools
• 8000 B.C. they had advanced so far in Southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa, as well as in neighboring regions including Europe
• Neolithic (New Stone) Age-the period of human history characterized by advances in stone tool-making and the beginning's of agricultural
• The Neolithic Age was followed by the Bronze Age (about 3000-1000 B.C.) and then the Iron Age (after 1000 B.C.)
• Cave Paintings-these images of wild beasts were painted about 25,000 years ago deep in a cave in southern France.
• Agricultural Revolution also called Neolithic Revolution-the shift from hunting and gathering to a more settled way of life based on farming and herding that occurred gradually between 8,000 and 4000 B.C. in much of western Asia, northern Africa, and Europe, and separately in other parts of the world
• 6000 B.C.-the first agricultural villages appeared in southwestern Asia
• Neolithic Storage Jar-developed at the time of the Agricultural Revolution, made possible the storage of plant and animal products
• Polytheism-the belief in many gods and goddesses
• Egypt about 3500 B.C. were the earliest known civilizations arose