HUM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jordan River, Pastoralism, Water Purification
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20 minutes: in the syllabus, i state my commitment to fostering an open learning environment and non-discrimination. What is the meaning of: most quizzes in this class are separated by at least two weeks. End of the last ice age: humanity dominates its environment at the level of living things, according to jacob bronowski. This was shown first in the earliest cultivation of plants and domestication of animals, a revolution. Village: a biological coincidence, according to bronowski, made settlement and agriculture possible in the. Hybrid wheat: what, according to bronowski, is the oldest known place of urban settlement in the western, the hybrid wheat, emmer, is a cross between wild wheat and a goat grass. The seeds of emmer are plump and a good source of food. Human help: these two resources, according to bronowski, made possible in the middle east the promise of the land flowing with milk and honey.
