Before there was civilization there were only people

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Before there was civilization there were only
people
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First People

• Orronin tugenensis
• Kenya
• 6 million years ago
• Bipedal
• Molars match ours
• Missing link?

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First People

• Homo sapiens
• Africa
• Hunters and gathers
• Nomads
• Lived in Caves and mastered fire and began to use
  tools
• 60,000 yrs. Ago
• 40,000 yrs. Started to move north towards Eurasia
  Australia
• Neanderthal
• Cro-Magnon first truly modern population
• Thinking man

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Paleolithic

• Customs, art, religious beliefs, sense of
  identity
• Painting found 40,000 yrs. Ago in Australia,
  France and Spain
• Stone age

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Mesolithic

• Africa
• Bow and arrow are invented
• Dugout canoes
• Produced tools with sharper edges
• Started to give up nomadic ways
• Climatic changes around 12,000 in present day
  Israel
• Barley wheat bread porridge
• Agricultural revolution

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Neolithic

• Bronze Age
• Copper then Bronze
• Civilizations begins
• Production of surplus food
• Large town and cities
• Divisions of labor in which many workers are
  specialists

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Neolithic pictures