Unit 1: The Rise of Agriculture and Agricultural Civilization

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Unit 1 The Rise of Agriculture and Agricultural
Civilization

• By Grayson Marrero, Sheantel Bailey, and Clay
  Small

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Time Period and Geographic Range

• Time Period 2.5 million BCE-2,000 CE
• Geographic Range Mesopotamia (Middle East),
  Indus River Valley (India), and Chinese River
  Valley (China)

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Maps
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Timeline

• Emergence of more Further
  development of Wide spread of species
• humanlike species,
  species into Homo erectus, across Asia, Europe,
  Africa
• initially in Eastern Asia
  upright, tool-using human development of fire use
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• 2.5 million BCE 750,000 BCE
  600,000 BCE
• Completion to date of
  Domestication of sheep Development of
  farming Hwang He culture
• basic human evolution sheep,
  goats, cattle in Middle East
  develops in China
• Species Homo sapiens sapiens
• Replaces other human species
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• 120,000 BCE 9,000 BCE 8,500 BCE 5,000 BCE
• Sumerian civilization, with Rise of Egyptian
  Collapse of Rome Huns begin
  to invade
• some disruptions through culture
  
  India
• conquest
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• 3,500 BCE 3100 BCE 476 CE 500 CE
  

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Shang Kingdom in China writing develops

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Key Figures

• The Sumerians
• Qin Shah Huangdi
• Confucius
• Julius Caesar
• Socrates
• Alexander the Great
• Cyrus the Great

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• Jesus
• Constantine
• Guatama Buddha
• Augustus Caesar
• Muhammad
• Clovis
• Hammurabi

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Important Events

• Classical civilizations include Zhou and Han
  China, the Roman Empire, and the Gupta Empire in
  India.
• By about 3000 B.C.E., metalworking had become
  common in the Middle East.
• Hammurabis Code River-Valley Legal Culture
• Building of the Pyramids and other large scale
  buildings in Egypt
• Kingdom of the Kush
• Greek Philosophy

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• Democracy in Greece formation of a Republic in
  Rome.
• Formation of the Roman Empire
• Founding of Buddhism
• Building of the Great Wall
• Crucification of Christ

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Vocabulary

• Paleolithic-Cultural period during the Stone Age
  marked by the development of stone tools. Started
  around 750,000 BCE and ended around 8,500 BCE
• Confucius-Chinese philosopher whose ideas and
  sayings were collected after his death and became
  the basis of a philosophical doctrine known as
  Confucianism
• Daoism-philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu
  and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life
  and noninterference with the course of natural
  events
• Dharma- the caste position and career determined
  by a person's birth Hindu culture required that
  one accept one's social position and perform
  occupation to the best of one's ability to have a
  better situation in the next life.