Historical Ages
Paleolithic Age: 1 million to 10,000 B.C.E.
-- hunters, fishers, gathers
-- not producers of food
-- sparely settled societies
-- division of labor by sex
Neolithic Age: 10,000 to 3100 B.C.E
-- starts in Middle East
-- more settled society
-- domesticated plants and animals
-- invention of pottery
-- storage of surplus food and liquids
-- transport food
-- cook food
-- made cloth from flax and wool
-- two advanced civilizations
-- Catal Huyuk, Turkey
-- Jericho, near Dead Sea
-- rise in population
-- areas
-- Middle East 8000 B.C.E.
-- China 4000 B.C.E.
-- India 3600 B.C.E.
Bronze Age: 3100 to 1200 B.C.E.
-- areas
-- Mesopotamia (Tigris and Euphrates)
-- Eygpt (Nile River Valley)
-- India
-- China (Yellow River)
-- growth of town along villages
-- cities had monumential buildings
-- elaborate representational artwork
-- smelting and manufacturing of metal tools and weapons
-- different classes of people
-- earliest writing
-- combine tin and copper to make stronger bronze
-- attributes of civilization
-- urbanization
-- technological, industrial, and social change
-- log distance trade
-- new methods of symbolic communication
Paleolithic Age: 1 million to 10,000 B.C.E.
-- hunters, fishers, gathers
-- not producers of food
-- sparely settled societies
-- division of labor by sex
Neolithic Age: 10,000 to 3100 B.C.E
-- starts in Middle East
-- more settled society
-- domesticated plants and animals
-- invention of pottery
-- storage of surplus food and liquids
-- transport food
-- cook food
-- made cloth from flax and wool
-- two advanced civilizations
-- Catal Huyuk, Turkey
-- Jericho, near Dead Sea
-- rise in population
-- areas
-- Middle East 8000 B.C.E.
-- China 4000 B.C.E.
-- India 3600 B.C.E.
Bronze Age: 3100 to 1200 B.C.E.
-- areas
-- Mesopotamia (Tigris and Euphrates)
-- Eygpt (Nile River Valley)
-- India
-- China (Yellow River)
-- growth of town along villages
-- cities had monumential buildings
-- elaborate representational artwork
-- smelting and manufacturing of metal tools and weapons
-- different classes of people
-- earliest writing
-- combine tin and copper to make stronger bronze
-- attributes of civilization
-- urbanization
-- technological, industrial, and social change
-- log distance trade
-- new methods of symbolic communication