World History Fall 2017

Commonalities of early cavitation’s have been determined to fall under the common patterns of: standardized weights, measures, architectural styles, agricultural for the economic foundation and a written language; though many remained deciphered to this day. Many features of early cavitation’s included: ceremonial bathing, ritual burning, yoga positions, bulls and elephants as religious symbols, and the styles of jewelry and clothing. These features can help a researching scholar determine what civilization a particular artifact belongs to, as well as to help determine the social standing of an individual, their cultural preferences, and the impact their environment has on them. As early civilizations began to settle their vast differences in their wealth, status, and power became evident. The greater wealth was not spread across the populous, it was instead piled up, and contributed to the erosion of equality. The upper class, or wealthy class, had many advantages...

The deliberate cultivation of particular plants as well as the taming and breeding of particular animals can be referred to by one of two terms: “Neolithic (New Stone Age) Revolution” and “Agricultural Revolution”. The coming of agriculture changed human life in a myriad of ways, not only did it gradually replace the earlier practices of gathering and hunting, but it also led to the ability for populations to grow, villages to settle, animal-borne diseases, cities, states, empires, civilizations, writing, literature and many other things. This led to a new relationship between humankind and other living things as they were now able to change the outcome of a crop off of selection of using the largest product to get seeds for the next crop, they were also able to then change the size of animals based off the size of the animals they bred. This in turn led to these plants and animals no longer being able to survive in the wild, as they grew accustomed to the environm...