HIST 1001 Lecture 1: HIST 1001 B Fall Lectures (All)
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Surplus can sustain larger amounts of non farmers: settlements need to be defended build walls around to protect themselves and surplus crop, with rise of first cities we have civilization, societies were incredibly organized/intelligent (mathematics, architecture) to sustain building projects over many years, bronze age (3100 1200 bc): addition of bronze smelting to urbanism. Used as a from of control: mesopotamia, sumer, saragon the great, babylonian empire, law code of hammurabi, the ordeal, gilgamesh, polytheism, egypt: unlike mesopotamia, the nile river flooded at precisely the right time to plant crops. Power/might of pharaoh demonstrated by pyramids: archaic 3100 2660 bc (unification of upper and lower egypt, old kingdom 2715 2180 bc (construction of pyramids, first intermediate 2180 2080 bc (political chaos, middle kingdom 2080 1640 (recovery and political stability, indo europeans originally came form the same place because they all spoke same/similar language.
