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Was alive 4,000,000 years ago
Was a biped: walked upright
Had hands and teeth
Ate plants and fruits -
Was alive 2,000,000 years ago
Was a biped and amnefors
Had bigger brain than Lucy's
Made and used tools
Hand axe was the first tool discovered which they could skin animals snd be able to migrate to colder areas -
Was biped,amnefer,brain larger,taller
Tools were better improved
Gained control of fire which was hard for them to create so they would make torches when leaving a camp so at the next camp, they wouldn't have to make another fire
1.8 million years ago More productive since they could see with the fire at night -
Was a biped,stronger,amenfer,brain larger
Tools improved
Better grasp on fire
Buried dead with tools,plants this means they were emotional
Lived in communities
Hunted in groups
Took care sick
Started understand medicine
Approxmently 5,00,00 years ago
Appoxmently 5,00,000 years ago -
Modern Humans
biped,height and bone structure like us
More similar to us
Tools are really improved
Mastered fired
Might've talked
Comfortable living in communities
Began agriculture and domestic animals
Able to say in one area
Began using symbols to communicate
Baby steps yo writing by using cave drawings -
-Sumer's goverment was a monarchy
-Sumer's people beleived in kings that were choosen from gods
-the kings collected taxes buitl temples lead armys and assigned other people to do things like tax collecters(delegarted)
-social structure; bottem=slaves,middle= artist farmers, fisherman,and merchants,top=king,priest,landowners, goverment officials
-they beleived in many gods=polytheism
-beleived gods lived in ziggurats
-cuneifo -
7th centuary
-was a king who was like a god
-half human half god
-gilgamesh is a bad rep.of a king so the gods create a beast enkidu to battle him out.Enkidu and gilgamesh than become friends and go on a journey to kill humbaba, returns to find ishtar having the bull of heaven come and they defeat him. Enkidu dreams one of the bros. will die and then he dies. Gilgamesh on journeys and meets people to help him become immortal but none help , he realizes he doesnt need anything to be a good king -
1900 b.c.e
-abe made a whole beleif/religon
-lived in mesopotamia
-god made him move to isrealaccording to the torah
-abes wife sarah couldn't have a babay intill in her elederly days she did his name was isaac
-god told abe to sacriface issac but because of his obeidence and faith god sent an angel to stop him at the last moment -
1792-1750 bce
-hammarbi was chosen by the gods to bring justice to babylon in mesopotamia
-tigris and euphrates on either side
^national rsorces and irrigation was good.
Hammarbis laws were about family property and personal injury
-they were very personal situations like audltry,robbery situations,abuse and death penaltys -
1700-1280 bce
-Thebes,Egypt
-Joesph was Jacob issacc son favorite son out of 12 children
^12 tribes of israel= israelites
- his bros. wee jelous and faked his death by selling him into slavery in Egypt
-the pharor asked joesph to interpret his dreams but joesph said god tells him what they mean and was pronounced prime minister
- joesph forgave his bros. and his whole family moved to egypt, than israelites -
1280-1240bce
-in new kingdom jewish ppl were slaved
-pharaoh was afraid of jews over powering so every faimlys first son must die
-moses survived and the pharaohs daughter saved him
-god told moses to tell the pharaoh to let the jewish ppl out and when he said no horrible diseass and crops came
-Exodus is the story of escape from slavery in eGYPT
-10 commandements are broader than hammarbis but simmilar in the subjects like family property and personal injury -
13-mid 11 centuary
Deborah: jugde of minor cases. talked to god who told her that the pharaohs enemy was coming. the pharaoh would only go attack if she came out. so she made a deal that the general(ppharaohs enemy) be killed by a women
Ruth: wasnt a jugde. ruth had a husbent and his brother had a wife. when they both died ruth and the other wife Niaomi moved to Niaomi's home town and were poor. ruth had gleaning which when a harvest falls, the poor picks it up. great grandmother of david -
1013-973 bce
david: he stood up to gloith, a strong warrior by using a stick and stone. the people than loved him. they loved him so much they made pharaoh. a pharaoh named sal tried to kill him but didnt suceed -
875-853 bce
Elijah: powerful prophet. lived in a big drought. god gives him food and water so he can worship god. when he told other religons about god, they didnt beleive. then they set up 2 piles of wood and a sacrifice to each god. the others didnt catch on fire but elijah god made both catch on fire -
701 BCE
war with Assarians
Lachish was taken over and destroyed
many people died
the war became a cycle
there was banishement or exile
happeed more than once
king had no common sense when it came to war so thats why a war even begun
a building was destroyed -
587 BCE
war was about religion
at war with another kingdom
a religious temple was destroyed
a revolt of the people in the kingdom happened twice
banishment
king started war because he had no common sense when it came to war -
2000 BCE
called Dravidians
artifaacts tell the story of flourishing
mohenjoDaro had a huge water tank for public bathing
found terra-cotta in valley which was pregnant women
bull=common hindu symbol& virility&shiva
water is sacred to hinduism
ariculturel people, grew crops,raised animals -
1700 BCE
Ayrans travled thrugh Europe AND asia conquering anyone
Ayrans are patriarchal: only worships male gods
They brought their rituals and cultures to the indus valley
the vedas is like a book with scriptures
they were written in 5000 BCE
they are about spirtual interests and ways to worship -
700-500 BCE
thought the vedas demanded complicated rituals
dedicated life of spiritual austerity and self-discipline
creating a revolution of spiritual thought or practice
final part of the vedas=upanishads
written about depth of sincerity and character