Gabriella Spilker                                                                                                                           1/22/15

                                                                     West Civ

     Today in West Civ we talked about the beginning of the human beings. Below i have listed some things I learned today.

• 3000-1200 BC
• 200,000 years ago humans were emerged in Southwestern Africa
• These people didn't look like those today 
• They had long nails and a lot of hair they almost looked like animals
• 14,000 years ago a worldwide human race existed
• Paleolithic age is known as the old stone age
• Neolithic age is know as the new stone age 
• this time was marked by tools and agriculture
• When people started working together and agriculture was developing was known as the Agriculture Revolution
• For the most men were hunters and the women stayed home with the children
• A hunter was really important they were thought as more important 
• Villagers were polytheist
• The Fertile Crescent was the perfect place to have everything   
• That place now is Syria and Iraq 
• villagers were polytheistic they worshiped many God, human and animal
• Sumer was in between the two rivers 
• population grew to new irrigation techniques
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