HST 1100 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - City, Christianity, Kingdom Of France
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Twice the size of brains and walk upright: 1. 5 million years ago. Mediterranean ocean in the southern french city of neese: found when dgging a mall, a hut made of sticks, bowls and food and bones, copralith: fossilized poop, turtles, mussles, fish, pig, rhino, ox all part of the diet. Mesopotamia: the fertile crescent, surrounded by asia minor (turkey) and egypt and others, named by the greeks, cities in sumeria/mesopotamia, tigris and euphrates rivers. Tigris and euphrates rivers: fertile silt that is good for growing crops, floods places silt on land, not much stone nearby, use mud instead. Developed differently than mesopotamia because unlike tiris and. Euphrates: predictable floods, less need to irrigate, focus on other things mesopotamians can"t. Allows larger cities: nile delta valley, flows into sea. Sea access: trade and transport, mediterranean has winds that allows you to travel against the current. Upper is up river and down the river is lower egypt.
