This book is dedicated to the World History Squad
Josephine "Jojo" Barios
Daejah " Dae like bae" Majet
Christshon
Cameron '
Brexton
Malcolm "Rolling Thunder" Stidham
Celia

This book was created and published on StoryJumper™

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When the Ice Age (12000-15000) ended there was more food. This meant that
the human population was able to grow and expand. As this happened areas of land
became over populated.

Paleolithic meaning old rock was a time period about 2 million
years ago. In the Paleolithic era they used stone tools, they had
a spoken language, they had discovered fire, they hunted and
gathered, and made cave art.

Agriculture means framing. The agriculture revolution was when people
stopped hunting and gathering for a living and began to farm. Because they started
farming they no longer had to move around to find food. Farming first began in
and area called the fertile crescent. The first crops farmed were wheat and barley.
The first animals domesticated were sheep (11,000 BCE), goats (11,000 BCE),
pigs (10,000 BCE), cattle (10,500 BCE)

There are things that define whether something is a civilization. The first is
Agricultural advancements. This means there will be more food and more food
means more people. The second is cities. These cities formed on there own as the
population grew. Almost always they were near a source of water. They could get
over crowded and this would lead to poor sanitation, the spread of diseases, and
crime.

Division of labor, means everyone had there own job. This
caused job specialization where people would become very
good at what they did. This was more efficient. Job specialization
also created social classes,when people are divided by how
much money they make.Because people spent their whole life
doing one job they made advances in technologies like using
metal tools instead of stone.

The last two characteristics of a civilization are power,wealth and centralization.
This means that there is some kind of power usually tied to a religious group.
The king/rulers job would have been to keep the gods happy so that every thing
would be good that year.

Mesopotamia was between two rivers the Tigres and the Euphrates. The
Mesopotamian developed the first form of writing known as cuneiform. This is
where their history began.The Sumerian city-states (3500-2300 BCE) had a
common culture, a common language and a common religion, but different
rulers for each city-state.They Sumerians made many advancements. Such as
the first plow, the first wheel, cuneiform, the first arch, and many more.The
city-states were politically independent. The city states were prone to invasion.
There first taxes were paid in grains or in labor. They were polytheistic and
state had its own chief god. The gods/goddesses were harsh and vengefiul
Sargon created the first empire. The empire collapsed every within a 100 years
They created the first law codes called Hammurabi's code.

Egypt lies on the North eastern part of Africa it is considered culturally partof the middle
east. Natural barriers cut it off from the rest of Africa. The Nile river flooded annually.
The Egyptians depended upon this flooding to make to land fertile and good for growing
crops.The river flows south

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This book is dedicated to the World History Squad
Josephine "Jojo" Barios
Daejah " Dae like bae" Majet
Christshon
Cameron '
Brexton
Malcolm "Rolling Thunder" Stidham
Celia

This book was created and published on StoryJumper™

Publish your own children's book:

www.storyjumper.com

When the Ice Age (12000-15000) ended there was more food. This meant that
the human population was able to grow and expand. As this happened areas of land
became over populated.