today class was only 4o minutes because we had a two hour delay. 200,000 yrs ago a human species emerged in southwest Africa. 14,000 yrs ago, a worldwide human race existed. The earlier pre-historic age is the Paleolithic Age, which was also called the Old Stone Age. The Neolithic Age, also called the New Stone Age, was marked by advanced tool making & beginnings of agriculture. As population increased from food surplus, more young children can be fed. The Hierarchies started to appear in village life. Sumer occupied the land between Tigris and Euphrates. The population;ation increased due to irrigation.
Today we watched a video called "Guns, Germs, and Steel". The main guy in the video was Jared Diamond who is a professor at UCLA, a biologist, an author, and is passionate in the study of birds. He traveled to Papua, New Guinea to learn what it was like to live there. People have lived in Papua for over 40,000 years with a similar life style. Cargo stands for there material goods. Pre-historical times (about 13,000 years ago) everyone was a hunter or gatherer. Sago- staple food that comes from trees. Barley + wheat were main crops.
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