Historical Ages

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