Period 1: Foundations - 600 B.C.E.
Timeperiod Overview
Events
- Nomads: Follow the Food
These people were very limited on knowledge and just wanted to
survive with basic needs.At that time,no advanced tools we're around and farmaing was yet to be developed.
The best way for them to get shelter was to find it, and the best way to get food was to follow it,
thus being in a hunter/gather lifestyle.
- Settling Down: The Neolithic Revolution
People moved from nomadic lifestyles to
agricultural lifestyles and town and city life. This transition period is often called the Neolithic (New Stone ) Revolution or the Agricultural
Revolution.
- The Big, Early Civilizations: Rivers Deliver
Most of the world’s early great civilizations were located in
river valleys. Rivers provided a steady supply of water to the civilizations for easy access to trade. Generally,lowlands around rivers we're covered
with nutrients packed soil, ideal for farming.A majority of the river valley civilizations were made up of
of city-states(polis), which were made up of an urban center and the agricultural land around it under its control. The most prominant river valley civilizations were
located in Mesopotamia, Egypt,India, and China, and developed around 3000 to 2000 B.C.E.