HIST 1215 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sub-Saharan Africa, Thumb, Semitic Languages
1 Mar 2018
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Unit i quiz: paleolithic & neolithic ages, mesopotamia, & Civilizations: people had settled down and started the idea of private property, division of labor advantage of specialization efficiency, social inequality classes shown by land possession and money. Called cuneiform took thousands of years to evolve very difficult to learn: epic of gilgamesh ~2000 bc about a ruler of a. & egypt were both in river valleys meso. "s ri(cid:448)ers (cid:449)ere u(cid:374)predi(cid:272)ta(cid:271)le, (cid:271)ut egyp"ts flood at the sa(cid:373)e ti(cid:373)e. 4 every year (egyptians were happier people because of this: both subject to heavy downpours hot and dry climate, economic development, in meso. & egypt, the majority of people were farmers and craftsmen they traded with one another for cedar, copper, gold, tin, leather, and silver. But egypt delayed the adoption of bronze because of isolation from the rest of the world: political characteristics, pharaoh a king and a god centralized power, old kingdom, middle kingdom (golden age), new.
