HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Iron People, Hyksos, Polytheism
19 Apr 2016
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Palaeolithic (1 million bc - 10. 000 bc) (greek old stone ) Lived in a gatherer-hunter society80% of time spent in leisure. Downside of gatherer-hunter: run out of food. Copper metal work, development of the plow. Settled agriculture > more predictable, sense of control. Have to protect the fields and surplus foods (seeds for next year, non-growing season, feed non- 90% of people in this society must farm to support it. Surplus permits 10% to work as something else (warriors, priest, bureaucrats, and craftsman) Live together in a fixed location (villages) As agriculture becomes more efficient, it can sustain more people, less people are farmers. Built walls around villages to protect themselves. Palaces and temples meant these settlements could be called cities farmers) Drifted form place to place looking for better pasturage with their animals. Writing allows transmissions of science, law, politics, religion (leads to greater intellectual complexity) Elders are keepers of knowledge, revered in oral societies.
