- The prehistoric age is a paleolithic age (old stone age)
- Neolithic age (New stone Age) was marked by advanced tool making and the beginnings of agriculture
- Initially, humans were part of migratory groups which hunted, fished, and gathered plants
- the agricultural/neolithic revolution was a shift from itinerant hunting/gathering to more permanent settlements centered on agriculture
- populations rose due to increased ability to care for children
- status of women was lowered as they were confined to domestic duties
- villagers were polytheists, worshipped multiple nature, human, and animal gods
- invention of the wheel and plow produced food for storage
Mesopotamia
- Summer was was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- new irrigation techniques increased population
- cities and towns were founded
- better food storage allowed diversity in professions: priests, tradesmen, farmers
- kings emerged as well as "city-state"
- Sumerians invented writing known as "cuneiform"
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