Hominid Journey

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The Journey to Populating the Earth Hominid began to populate the earth millions of years ago, from Africa and eventually spread out to all of the continents on Earth. The journey took millennium through errors and trials of survival and social organizations. Through Homo sapiens’ excellent adaptation, cognitive revolution and complex social organization, we were able to spread out as much and as fast as we did and dominated the entire planet. The harnessing of fire played an extremely important part in helping with the spread of human population throughout the globe. Around 250,000 BCE, fire helped our ancestors to control their environment, they were able to occupy in an environment for twenty-four hours, and they were also able to control …show more content…
For some empire it was easy to do so due to the mass migration of the people, for others the spread of empire involved conquered or treaty or at times even through trades. An empire is a group of states or different ethnic groups brought together under a single sovereign power. The largest power or the king of an empire would allow smaller kings of each groups of people to keep their culture and religion as long as he receives taxes to help his empire to be richer. On the other as, as illustrated in Lystrata, it was written by Greek 411BC between Athens and Sparta while the Peloponnesian war was happening. It talks about Greece, how everything was about Greece; yet, it was also threaten as will. The Sparta and Athens fought to expand their empire, and to gain control of what Greece. “Yes, our country’s future depends on us: whether the Peloponnesians become extinct… you get the point” reveals how incredibly high the stakes were, if Sparta and Athens can’t make a peace treaty, then Greece is likely to be destroyed. Same thing happened with the spread of empire; most states were forcefully taken over by larger empire. Some empire were considered syncretism - blended elements from different cultural- which was the result of trades. When merchants came to a new place to trade, they brought with them their cultures, and eventually with their status of being a merchants they were able to eventually bring forth their culture and combined it with the region they were living in’s culture. Not only did the increase of population helped with the spread of cultural exchange, but it also helped to bring forth the system of

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