UGC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Andes, 10Th Millennium Bc, Lagash

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Undergraduate College
• Course: UGC 111
• Professor: Maureen Donnelly

Document Summary

First agricultural villages: 10000 bce, first crop cultivation: grains (cultivated from wild grasses), peas, and. Donnelly: appeared at the sites of agricultural villages including the river valleys of mesopotamia, the nile, the indus, the huang he, and the niger, and in mexico, and the andes mountains, population ranged from 5000-40000 people c. Increase in the complexity of physical structures built for human spaces: roads, protective walls, canals, irrigation ditches, cisterns, baths, sewage drainage, temples, large buildings for public gatherings. Impact on environment extended out from the city proper to the land surrounding the city (used for farming and herding to supply the city with food) and to trade routes. Nippur, lagash, and umma: later, these city-states were conquered by sargon (approx. 2350 bce) and then hammurabi (1792-1750 bce: built extensive canals on land that had been previously drained for agriculture by the ubaidians, built roads to support trade routes f.