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WW Prologue, Intro to Part One, AND... Chapter (First Peoples)

ANGELINA HERNANDEZ BLOG 1

Prologue
(My thought...) Strayer writes history in a way I have never seen it be written before. He focuses even on the simplest of things. For example, a title. He made sure everything that went into this book would positively impact the readers views on history. That history just isn't this black and white thing. Its not just words on paper. It is real life.

Intro to Part One

• Archeologists and anthropologists say,  that around 5-6 million y.a., the lines of decent leading to Homo sapiens & chimpanzees came about.
• Hominid emerged from eastern and southern Africa 
• 20-30 different related species
• Over time Hominids evolved 
• Only the Homo sapiens survived
• emerged about 250000 y.a. in Africa
• migrated 100000 y.a. 
• Humans now take up a lot of the Earth
• 1st migrations happened during Paleolithic Era
• gathers/hunters
• Farming and herding changed how humans live
• animals domesticated
• divisions w/ in communities
• civilizations emerged (3500-500 BCE)
• 1st cities/states 3500 BCE

Chapter One

• Homo sapiens emerged in easter & southern Africa 250000 y.a.
• Migrated to Middle East 45000 y.a.
• N Spain & S France site of 1st Euro settlement 
• left cave paintings
• New tech in Russia & Ukraine
• weaving, pottery, etc.
• 60000 humans made it to Australia 
• 300000 ppl in 1788 settled sparsly 
• 250 languages developed
• worldview changed
• stories, art, etc.
• major communication
• American settlement about 30000-15000 y.a.
• Clovis: 1st clear design of culture in Americas
• disappeared around extinction of big mammals
• 3500 y.a. migration into the Pacific
• made very stratified societies/chiefdoms
• Hawai'i
• 1st societies 
• 25-50 ppl
• not much tech
• Paleolithic ppl = nomads
• societies had rules
• rich ceremonial life
• egalitarian societies
• men and women appeared to be equals
• rape/domestic violence unknown
• gath/hunt ppl considered primitive