Ancient & Medieval Worlds Series: Early Humans Audiobook (Free)

Origins. Evidence of pre-human types is earlier and earlier, now 3-5 million years ago. Over enormous expanse of your time, primates head shape changes, hands structure changes, they emerge from trees and shrubs, develop useful tools. (3.24.00) = Homo Sapiens. Emerge 200,000 years ago from other species, some extinct, some not. The precariousness of individual existence. Adaptability to changes. Human distinctions consist of abstract thinking, language sophistication. Impact of the opposing thumb. Device making..LEARNING MUCH MORE about Ancient & Medieval Worlds Series: Early Humans Pets and primates make use of some kinds of tools. Human too making is normally highly advanced. The creation of art. The usage of tools in a few burial rites (11.20.00) = Race. Race can be an imprecise term. Early human beings originate in Africa. Melanin darkens the skin, provides safety from natural sunlight. Paler skin color with less melanin for north people. Population spreads to Europe, Indonesia, and elsewhere. (16.20.00) = Ages of humans. Paleolithic Age (Old Rock Age) reaches 10,000 years back, shows little modification. Gathering and trying to find food. Finding of fire 400,000 years ago before homo sapiens. Use f open fire for warmth, cooking food (may have been unintentional), light, security to keep animals apart. The creating of a spark and then fire by massaging 2 stones together seems miraculous at that time. The beginning of control of character. (21.10.00) = Neolithic Age. The creating of artifacts, jewelry, religious items, burial rites. Clear indications of early human beings’ concern with death and afterlife. (26.44.00) = Inventions influence on gender. During the Stone Age males hunted, women gathered food and were child bearers. Evidence that ladies have superior status. They are much less mobile, gathering is definitely more essential than hunting since it can be steady, predictable. The deities worshiped possess female forms.. The concept of NATURE which renews itself in cycle of months. (33.40.00) = Inventing History. Religion. The creating of artifacts, jewelry, spiritual items, burial rites. Clear signs of early humans’ concern with loss of life nd afterlife. (37.59.00) = Gender. Through the Stone Age men hunted, women collected food and were child bearers. Evidence that ladies have superior position. They are much less mobile, gathering is usually more important than hunting because it is constant, predictable. The deities worshiped have female forms. The concept of Mother Earth which renews itself in cycle of seasons. (43.53.00) = Creativeness. Early sculpture. Cave paintings are somewhat high up, safeguarding them. The use of paint from veggie matter, yellows and browns. Themes are animals, humans, hope for upcoming hunt or celebration of an effective hunt, the depiction of extinct animals. A spear targeted at an animal’s mind indicates understanding of anatomy. Masks suggest knowledge of mathematics, forms of writing. Neolithic Age group (New Rock Age group). 10,000 years ago. A individual revolution with tremendous changes. (46.40.00) = Bronze Age Beginnings of Civilization. The Bronze Age group, age metals, about 5,000 years ago. Copper and tin are gentle but the alloy of both, bronze, is usually hard and breaks stone. This discovery is most likely unintentional. In Egypt 3,000 to 5,000 years ago, the first appearance of resolved urban existence along the Nile River, a way to obtain drinking water. This pattern is certainly followed in the Yangtze River and other major waterways. The use of strong metal equipment to very clear swamps. (52.52.00) = Food surplus and department of labor. Earlier all people are involved in meals supply. Now even more food is certainly made by fewer people, freeing some for other things, resulting in the department of labor. Mining and finding correct ore, smelting to melt away impurities, molding of steel into useful forms. This food surplus allows the possibility of greater travel, contact with other people, trade, and battle. Class society begins with the victors of wars, the armed forces leaders, becoming the political market leaders, passing on guideline to their sons. The defeated become slaves as the spoils of battle. (57.09.00) = Replacement of the matriarchal culture. Invention from the plow revolutionizes agricultural production, is labor saving. Plows are taken by work pets controlled by guys, changing the culture to patriarchal. Goddesses are transformed to gods. (58.24.00) = Course society begins. Economic and politics rulers usually do not do manual labor which is performed only by the low class. If someone will manual labor is normally a mark of class difference between higher and lower course. (1.05.49.00) = Pyramids in Egypt made of 2,300,000 stones each 2-1/2 tons, and everything which involves from slicing from a mountain quarry, moving to area including floating along a river and engaging in place level upon increasingly higher level to a elevation of 481 feet high, having a margin for mistake is significantly less than 1 inches. Just like remarkable are sophisticated structures underneath as burial sites for pharos using their treasures. (1.13.14.00) = Stonehenge.in southeastern Britain, 1900-1600 B.C., its complexity, logistics of structure, its selection of area, and feasible purpose, possibly a calendar. If therefore, it will just just work at that latitude. These reflect math and science genius of the human brain’s power. (1.22.42.00) = Other types of the brain’s genius. Mummification, needing knowledge of the body. Egyptian human brain surgery is practiced, with many survivors evidenced by scar tissue formation on mummies. The knowledge of pi, the circumference of the circle. Written vocabulary. Pictograph pictures, hieroglyphics, idea graphs of indicators representing suggestions, cuneiform writing, trimming into stone, letters representing seems Early composing is certainly record of contributions to religious priesthood, no writing of technology. Iron ore, more powerful than bronze, is definitely smelted with the Hittites, afterwards formed into steel. The Phoenician alphabet, the ordering of sounds. The Assyrian aqueduct holds water to lower lands (1.30.06.00) = Decline of Inventions. Inventions are not from advanced civilizations. One reason is the upper class will not desire labor saving products to ease labor of functioning class which defines the class society. Another cause is the superstitions by priesthood which are threatened by science and the training of the people. (1.34.30.00) = Complexity of human development. Parallel issues taking place. Tremendous scientific accomplishments and at the same time the development of religious observance, side by side. Sometimes news travels from one civilization to another, other instances parallel discoveries indie from each other. Yet technology is only one way to measure individual society.