HIST 2706 Lecture 4: Egypt
29 Nov 2016
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People began to domesticate crops and animals. As food production increased, population grew and people began to settle in one place. Ability to produce more children = more labour, more food, etc. Cities emerged in river valleys, food surplus led to a division of labour. Image: ruins of babylon (modern day iraq) Most egyptians lived on the strip of land on either side. Civilization was based on the richest of the nile, one of the first complex human societies. Many artifacts and texts produced have survived. Know more about ancient egypt than the rest of the african civilizations. Land on the mediterranean was marshy, no ports. Theory that egypt was a never-changing civilization (false) People living in the upper nile region for many thousands of years. Permanent agricultural settlements established in lower and upper egypt (5000 bce) Pottery skills brought there from the west and the north.
