For as long as homo-sapiens have been on this earth finding sources of food had always been the number one priority.
Humans, no matter the gender, spent most hours of each day hunting animals and foraging for edible plants and fruits. “That reliance on foraging characterized what historians and archaeologists call the Paleolithic era, or the “old stone age”.” (Jerry H. Bentley 7)
During this time, and as the number of humans began to gather together forming a “community”, rules and regulations were needed to keep order of life creating “ethnic codes”.
With all these changes taking place and communities beginning to grow, naturally (Get it “naturally) nature, itself, would also begin to change. Now it wasn’t until about the end of the Paleolithic …show more content…
Now that agriculture could support a large amount of humans within one community it was time for the first civilization to rise.
The world’s first cities, built by the Sumerians, compared quite differently from that of the Neolithic villages. “Unlike the earlier settlements, the Sumerian cities were centers of political and military authority, and their jurisdiction extended into the surrounding regions.” (Page 9) Soon enough states with governmental institutions were established to (again) maintain order and more importantly; cooperate on community projects such as expanding the reservoirs and canals for crops.
Now with civilization booming and crops, along with other trade products such as pottery, metallurgy, and textile also at peak production, Sumerians found it very useful using pictographs in order to keep track of commercial transactions and tax collections. However, this was not helpful when it came to communicating abstract ideas. “Beginning about 2900 B.C.E. the Sumerians developed a more flexible system of writing that used graphic symbols to represent sounds, syllables, and ideas that as well as physical objects.” (Page
Humans, no matter the gender, spent most hours of each day hunting animals and foraging for edible plants and fruits. “That reliance on foraging characterized what historians and archaeologists call the Paleolithic era, or the “old stone age”.” (Jerry H. Bentley 7)
During this time, and as the number of humans began to gather together forming a “community”, rules and regulations were needed to keep order of life creating “ethnic codes”.
With all these changes taking place and communities beginning to grow, naturally (Get it “naturally) nature, itself, would also begin to change. Now it wasn’t until about the end of the Paleolithic …show more content…
Now that agriculture could support a large amount of humans within one community it was time for the first civilization to rise.
The world’s first cities, built by the Sumerians, compared quite differently from that of the Neolithic villages. “Unlike the earlier settlements, the Sumerian cities were centers of political and military authority, and their jurisdiction extended into the surrounding regions.” (Page 9) Soon enough states with governmental institutions were established to (again) maintain order and more importantly; cooperate on community projects such as expanding the reservoirs and canals for crops.
Now with civilization booming and crops, along with other trade products such as pottery, metallurgy, and textile also at peak production, Sumerians found it very useful using pictographs in order to keep track of commercial transactions and tax collections. However, this was not helpful when it came to communicating abstract ideas. “Beginning about 2900 B.C.E. the Sumerians developed a more flexible system of writing that used graphic symbols to represent sounds, syllables, and ideas that as well as physical objects.” (Page