Sociology 2151A/B Lecture Notes - Market (Place), Numeracy, Nomad
10 Apr 2014
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Urbanization- more and more people living in urban areas (began 10,000 years ago). People used to be nomadic (moved from place to place). First city (according to the textbook) jericho. But we"re not totally sure what the first city was. People only started to acquire more possessions after they settled down in one place to stay there. Broken pottery gives hints that there may have been a city there because nomadic people did not travel with pottery. People in the past used to only live to an average of 30 years old. The nomadic lifestyle was not contusive to living long (health and danger risks). As people start to settle down they start to live longer and have more children the population grows. People began to merge together for common defence against threats. People began to specialize in certain tasks and fields of occupation.
