![]() ![]() To those who inhabited the city some 8,000 years ago, the figure likely represented fertility and power over nature. Here she is supported by twin leopards whose tails curve over her shoulders. Many versions of a well-nourished and pregnant female figure were found at Çatal Hüyük. p13ġ3 Neolithic Goddess Neolithic Goddess. ![]() For several minutes each year, at sunrise on the winter solstice, the chamber is illuminated by a shaft of light that passes through the “roof-box” above the entrance. ![]() A wall of white quartz stones rises above a row of horizontal megaliths on either side of the entrance, from which a passage leads to a spacious interior chamber. Passage-Tomb at Newgrange, Ireland Dating to around 3200 B.C.E., Newgrange is one of the oldest and most impressive Neolithic structures. p13ġ2 Close-up of Passage-Tomb at Newgrange, Ireland Dating to around 3200 B.C.E., Newgrange is one of the oldest and most impressive Neolithic structures. Map 1.2 p11Ĭultural Expressions megaliths Early Towns and Specialists Jericho / Catal Huyuk In lands less suitable for crop cultivation, pastoralism and hunting remained more important for supplying food. Later interactions helped spread these domesticated animals and plants to new locations. Many different parts of the world made original contributions to domestication during the Agricultural Revolutions that began about 10,000 years ago. Map 1.2 Early Centers of Plant and Animal Domestication. The Transition to Plant Cultivation Stone tools “swidden” agriculture Domesticated Animals and Pastoralism Agriculture and Ecological Crisisĩ Early Centers of Plant and Animal Domestication The Stone Age and Stone Tools Paleolithic Neolithic Foragers Lifestyle of Migrant Groups Art and Cultureħ The Lion Panel The Lion Panel in Chauvet Cave, France p9 This story roughly coincides with the origins of writing, allowing us to document aspects of human life not revealed by archaeological evidence alone. Note: China, developing slightly later, is discussed in Chapter 3. New Kingdom Description of the table: A chronology of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley from 300 B.C.E. End of Indus Valley civilization 1500 B.C.E. Beginning of Indus Valley civilization 2000 B.C.E. Neolithic (New Stone Age) earliest agriculture in different parts of the world. Map 1.1 p6ĥ Chronology from 32,000 B.C.E.-1500 B.C.E.Įmpty cell Before Civilization Mesopotamia Egypt Indus Valley 32,000 B.C.E 32,000 B.C.E. in the valley of the Yellow River in China. in the valley of the Indus River in Pakistan in the second millennium B.C.E. in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia and the Nile River in Egypt, in the third millennium B.C.E. The earliest complex societies arose in the floodplains of large rivers: in the fourth millennium B.C.E. Map 1.1 River-Valley Civilizations, 3500–1500 BCE. p4Ĥ River-Valley Civilizations, 3500–1500 BCE The Gilgamesh story was still popular in Mesopotamia twenty centuries after the king of Uruk’s lifetime. sculpture of a king, possibly Gilgamesh, from the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II, represents the magical power and omnipotence of kingship. Like many ancient peoples, the Babylonians believed that distant lands were home to legendary beasts, strangely formed peoples, and mysterious natural phenomena. Beyond the great encircling salt sea are seven islands. Nearby features of the Mesopotamian landscape include the Euphrates River, mountains, marshes, and cities. This map on a clay tablet, with labels written in Akkadian cuneiform, shows a flat, round world with the city of Babylon at the center. Presentation on theme: "Babylonian Map of the World"- Presentation transcript:ġ Chapter 1 From the Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations, 8000- 1500 B.C.E.īabylonian Map of the World, circa 600 b.c.e. ![]()
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