HIST 1001 Chapter : World History
Document Summary
World history: what is civilization, latin civis = citizen, inhabitant of a city, civitas = collection of citizens, state. Idea of the west: plato to nato , recently: interconnected nature of western europe, mediterranean world, near. East: hominids, australopithecus (ca 3. 5 million years go, lucy 3. 2 million years ago, hunter gatherers, domestication of animals, dogs (ca. 12,000 years ago: sheep and goats (ca. 10,000 years ago: pigs, cattle, horses, silkworms, cats, fixed settlements (ca. Indus: yangtze, crafts and technology, pottery (ca. 50,000 people: gilgamesh, surpluses and trade, exports: grain, wool, leather, imports: wood, metal, jewels, sea trade as far as india, wheel and overland trade, cuneiform = wedge shaped writing, ca. 2000 bce: gilgamesh and enkidu, caprice of gods, gilgamesh, bull of heaven, death of enkidu, vision of the afterlife, search for immortality, gilgamesh and utnapishtim, empires, akkadians, semitic language, sumerian culture, sargon (ca. 2350 bce: enheduanna: hymns to ishtar (akkad)/innana (sumer, ur, ur-nammu (ca.
