Locating+World+History+in+the+Environment+&+Time+(8)

1. Locating world history in the environment a. Environment b. Time 1) Paleolithic Era encompasses 96% of human history followed by the Agricultural Era and then the Modern Era. Paleolithic Era to encompassed the hunter gathers and moving from herd to herd. Agricultural revolution brought the Agricultural Era when people began to become self-sufficient and specialization also began. People also began to settle down in communities rather than tribes ot groups. The Modern Era is the era we all live in and is one with great technological advancements. 2)In the time span between 8000bce-600ce many changes happened. Civilization began to take shape. Surplus agriculture allowed time for other advancements to be made. The growth of population lead to the first cities and eventual growth in to city-states and nations. 3)
 * 1) Before the Ice Age, humans were nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes. The Ice Age created ice bridges tha allowed for humans to spread to new continents. The Agricultural Revolution began when the ice melted.
 * 2) The Ice Age forced humans to live in more hospitable areas of the earth, near the equator
 * 3) As people began to settle the population began to increase as groups no longer needed to live with only 20 or 25 members. Also the planet's temperature increased making life more sustainable.

c. Diverse Interpretations 
 * 1) It made gender relations more unequal because now there was work that only men could do. Men had more important roles than women, thus giving them a more important status.
 * 2) The more common source of change is change through connection or diffusion. Early people did not always just invent things on the spot. Instead they found it more practical to share things that they invented or discovered with each other
 * 3) The issue involving using "civilization" as an organizing principal is that the first "civilizations" were not by today's standards really civilized. They had no leader, just a decision maker who could change at any given moment, no true form of government, and really nothing to trade.
 * 1) The more common source of change is change through connection or diffusion. Early people did not always just invent things on the spot. Instead they found it more practical to share things that they invented or discovered with each other
 * 2) The issue involving using "civilization" as an organizing principal is that the first "civilizations" were not by today's standards really civilized. They had no leader, just a decision maker who could change at any given moment, no true form of government, and really nothing to trade.