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Civilization Needs
- food
- warfare
- buildings
- centralized bureaucracy
- towns cities
- writing
- EXCEPT: Peru Incas no writing
History = documents
Prehistory = archaeology
Mesopotamia 3100 BC
- formed on rivers Tigris Euphrates
- gave transportation and irrigation
- includes Egypt
- formed on Nile
- gave transportation and irrigation
Indus 2500BC - 1500BC
- large cities Harappa & MahinjoDero
Aegean 2000BC
- connected by small islands (trade area)
- had privacy
- start of Mediterranean culture
China 1600 BC
- longest consistent civilization
- resist foreign influences
America 1200 BC
Earliest Olmecs & Chavins
Large towns with temples
Known for sculptures
Mediterranean 1000BC
Aegeans, Phoenecians, Greeks then Romans
Most Creative Area in the World
Colonies in Africa
Regional Civilizations 400AD - 1500AD
Long civilized areas were introduced to new ideas
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Gobekli Tepe 9500BC
Temple discovered in Turkey built 11500 y.a.
Maybe oldest building in human history
Predates villages, pottery, domestication (animal / plants)
Ruins found temple
Not as big a Stonehenge
30 yards across
17 foot high pillars (many)
Likely 15 - 20 ruins deeper (50 more huge pillars)
"Oldest monumental artwork"
This is reshaping history (cool art)
Changes everything
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Religion appears early in civilized life
Worship starts with agriculture
husbandry started there after gobekli Tepe.
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Unknown because evidence
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