Catching-up on first assignment: Chapters 1, 2, and 3

Chapter 1 : first people populating the planet to 10,000 B.C.
Chapter 2: first farmers and revolutions of agriculture 10,000 B.C.- 3,000 B.C.
Chapter 3: first civilizations, cities, states, and unequal societies 3,500 B.C- 500 B.C.

"Paleolithic" term means the "old stone age" and refers to food gathering and hunting as a way of life. 95% of these humans survived on the climate of geography, wild plants and animals. Agricultural people had their own food supplies in small settled villages.
Homo sapiens were first known 250,000 years ago from southern and eastern Africa.
Humans in Europe were 40,000 years ago, and cave art was 25,000 years ago was first seen here.
Into Australia, about 60,000 years ago, was the creation of an out on their world known as "The Dreamtime."
"Great Transition" was the change in lives of Paleolithic people with global warming because of the Ice Age, ending 10,000 years ago.
Paleolithic societies in Japan were called Jomon, and they settled down in seaside villages.
Two societies that continued to survive their ancient ways of life: the San of southern Africa and the Chumash of southern California.
Major invention to transform societies was the planked canoe, "tomol" (vessel 30'ft. long) changed the Chumash with wealth, power, and commerce trade.
The Neolithic Age, or Agricultural Revolution was the intentional farming of particular plants and breeding of special animals.
Agriculture  gave a new relationship between humans and nature with animals to the changing environment, which is another way of saying "domestication."
Civilizations came from the foundation of the Agricultural Revolution. Large scale irrigation projects (aqueducts), rich farming soil, geography for villages near ocean ports, mountains for protecton, pastures for animals to graze and surrounding area to hunt.
Urban Revolution represents one of the first ancient civilizations Mesopotonia, with it's largest city Urnk.
Ancient civilizations were held together even amid complicated inequalities of societies because they were organized around particular cities, larger territories, or states. By officials replacing kinship for authority, as the basic organizing leaders.
Writing created the next powerful transforming innovation and was regarded as a gift.