Migration in the post classical age spread language of different cultures around the world. When merchants traveled to different countries in order to carry out trades and business their language would sometimes be diffused into these other places which encouraged some people to become bilingual. One of the biggest linguistic effects of migration occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Bantu people over the course of hundreds of years migrated across the majority of Central and Southern Africa and while they were doing this they left traces of their Bantu language behind them. This made many languages in this region of Africa to stem off of the Bantu language and still today you can see the effects the Bantu language had on Sub-Saharan Africa’s…
1. How did growing social and gender hierarchies and expanding networks of trade increase the complexity of human society in the Neolithic period? In the Neolithic period of human civilization, societal developments like agricultural revolution led to social ranking or "hierarchies" and patriarchal favor. The latter customs became increasingly integrated into the daily ways of men and women as plow agriculture dominated human ways of life. As This period of agricultural renaissance and trade of goods, ideas, and customs added complexity to society as it is widely responsible for the creation of a social divide between gender and class.…
Archaic H. sapiens possessed unique features compared with more modern H. sapiens. In contrast to modern H. sapiens, archaic H. sapiens had a longer, lower skull, a larger browridge, a bigger and more prominent face, a wider nasal aperture, a more projecting occipital bone, larger teeth, and very little, if any, chin. The postcranial bones of archaic H. sapiens were also thicker than modern people’s as well (Larsen, 2011). Some hominid skeletons dating to the Upper Pleistocene possess a fusion of those archaic skeletal features as well as modern ones.…
In the early years of the earth, the people who lived here were called hunters and gatherers. The only way for this group of people to survive was to hunt and gather their food. They relied heavily on the animals and plants that provided them with a source of food. The only downfall to this life, was that they could not settle in one place for very long. The changes in the weather would cause the animals that these people hunted to migrate, which meant that the people had to follow, or else they would die of starvation.…
In the Hunter gatherer time polygamy was used to expand the range of a man’s alliances so he is able to maintain or acquire a position of leadership and to also prove his manhood in the tribe. Man who were allowed to choose any wife they desired, were men who had sufficient or more resource eg kettles, servants, crops, ect. Those resources enable or qualifies him to choose a wife as he is fit to be a husband and build a family. Accumulating resourcing it becomes very easy for a man to form alliances with other men, the more resources you have the more wives you get and the more powerful you are and able to form strong alliance.…
The role of Major Rivers: The Developments of the Early Egyptian and Mesopotamian Civilisations The lands of Egypt, in northeast Africa, and Mesopotamia, in modern-day Iraq, were the homes to two of the earliest civilisations in human history, both of which developed around major rivers. Egypt created a prosperous empire along the thin strip of the Nile River which lasted for thousands of years. Mesopotamia was situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and saw a number of different empires emerge and disappear spanning over roughly a 4,000 year period. Both societies relied a great deal on these rivers and over time, they were able to establish effective agricultural systems.…
2015 Language in the Asian American Community Language is important to everyone. The English Language is used in everyday interaction with people. However, language could impose social and linguistic issues to those whose native language is not English in the United States. Asian Americans are one of those groups who faces these kinds of issues.…
Native Americans that believe in animism face challenges with the social norms since the beginning of a “structured” America. The evolution of the North American land has been a painful experience for the Native Americans to watch, as the land they consider to be alive be dominated and treated as an object. The “white men” were not like the Native people who personified the Earth and lived alongside of it and on it. European Americans have destroyed nature over the centuries without thinking of the consequences, because like all man almost all human beings only think of wealth in the form of money, materialistic things and ownership of so considered “objects” like animals and land. It is why the Native American were challenged even up until…
Touring the Smithsonian Museums with the Sociology class was fascinating. Some scholars observed in wonder of the various Native American clothing and toys that were displayed. Others gasped at the astonishing display of the John Bull locomotive that peaks ones interest in the railroad bridge. A lot of the scholars did not notice the significance of the Civil War Union Draft Wheel until after they read the markers explaining the power that these types of wheels possessed. Each exhibit was remarkable in its own way as it presented multiple aspects in relation to sociology.…
Before arrival of europeans, there are more than 250 thousand local languages and it means that they have many tribes who has an oral tradition in the…
Native American Culture and Health Care Bryan Stull West Virginia University-Parkersburg Nursing 234 Native American Culture and Health Care According to Jean Giddens (2013), “culture is defined as a pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self-definitions, norms, roles, and value that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in a defined geographical region.” There are several different types of cultures that exist in the world. Each culture has its own belief on medical practices and rituals.…
I was sitting in my Sociology 119 lecture, Race and Ethnic Relations, with Dr. Sam Richards, and in walks a Native American man. He looked defeated and tired. He began to speak, but I could hear the despair in his voice as he told us his story. He came from Northern Minnesota Native American reservation, and he explained what it was like growing up in that environment. He was a recovering alcoholic and drug user, which he explains is a very common thing on the reservations.…
The ancient Maya independently developed a number of complex verbal and written languages, that were crucial to their culture. Today, 31 Mayan languages are spoken by modern Maya people. These languages all take their roots from older Mayan languages, which originate from the hypothetical language “Proto-Mayan”, which is theorized to have been born in the highlands of what is now Guatemala around 4000 years ago. Mesoamerican societies are special in that they are one of very few societies (Mesoamericans, the Syro-Palestinians, Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Chinese, and people of the Indus valley) to have independently created a written and spoken language. All other languages, including English, take their foundations from the languages of those…
Hunting was a very important element of survival because the animals were the main source of gathering food and materials. However, in different periods and locations, hunting meant differently. In the Paleolithic era, survival was the priority, but the weapons and tools were all made from stones which resulted hunting was extremely hard and dangerous. In the dark caves, Paleolithic artists recorded the scenes of hunting by painting. Hall of Bulls, discovered in Lascaux, France is one of the murals which depicts a large number of herd animals in an enormous scale which shows the Paleolithic people followed the herds and dreaded about the animals’ power back to 16,000 to 14,000 BC.…
The reason for this would have been the same as those in migratory societies, practicality. Although the women were no longer restrained by the need to carry infants long distances, and the presence of a crying child would not have had the same effect on domesticated animals as on the hunted prey, they still had to be concerned about the safety of the toddler. Any task taking place while caring for children also had to be interruptible. Men and women had to spend the majority of their time working to produce and prepare their food; for maximum productivity the women would have taken on the tasks that coordinated best with the demands of childcare. Such tasks are generally dull and do not require deep concentration, they can be easily interrupted and resumed.…