Hunter-gatherers

Required Reading: Prehistoric people: 1. What does the term “Prehistoric People” mean? How has the advancement in the study of such peoples grown and developed over time? Prehistoric people are humans who lived before writing was invented 5.500 years ago. 2. Where (location) and when (date) were the remains of the oldest known hominid found? The remains of the oldest known hominid were discovered in the Djurab Desert in 2001. 3. Which species of Australopithecus is “Lucy”? What is the…

Children rights: Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory. There are many types of rights like human rights, legal rights, civil rights etc. As well as adult, children also have human rights and civil rights, and legal rights –but do not have the full legal capacity of adults. Typically,…

Social Justice: As we have seen thus far, permaculture knows no class and is best suited in its nature to areas with more problems. It can provide jobs for people who have not been included or considered in the job discussion. It can be a safe place for children or grown ups in rough neighborhoods, and it is a great way to get teenagers involved. There is a woman named Pandora Thomas who works with people reentering the community after incarceration. She applies the first rule of permaculture…

agricultural aspect of civilizations.Lots of time was dedicated to the maintment and advancements of agriculture. The 9th millennium period in the Levant represented a major transformation in the way life was lived. People changed from living a “hunter and gatherer” lifestyle to a “settled civilization”.This was larger due to the “discovering”of agriculture. Many of these small civilizations resided along bodies of water, as this made crop irrigation easier. The transition from had initially…

The turbulent history of Hispaniola and the constant change of control on the island are two of the main reasons for this bad relationship between the countries. From 1822 to 1844 Haiti had complete control of the entire island. Trujillo used this twenty year period as a point of reference to blame Dominican problems on the Haitians. He often said that before the Haitian control of the Dominican Republic, the Dominicans were blond hair and blue eyed. Although Trujillo is no longer in office…

“The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future” - Theodore Roosevelt. Turning points in history defines the influential change in the way something is done for the better or worse. Three notable turning points are Alexander's Empire, The Renaissance, and The Agricultural Revolution which all had forever political, social, and cultural impacts showing the importance of a turning point is more than a historical event, rather an event that caused impacting change.…

Homo sapiens were the only existing human species left on earth evolving since about 160,000 year ago. Homo sapiens are the complete modern humans Homo is the human genus. Which also includes Homo erectus and Neanderthals plus many other extinct species of hominid family. Question is what species evolved into Homo sapiens. According to Ember & peregrine (2007). “Most Paleoanthropologists agree that Homo erectus evolved into H. sapiens” (p.171). Reason being because, of classified fossils that…

This paper will be talking about when gender inequality started To happen, why genders can’t be equal, what will happen in the long run (will genders ever be equal?) and some solutions To help make genders equal. This all started off with hunters and gatherers influencing gender inequality, as the men did “man” labor such as hunting and gathering wood and doing all of the harder stuff away from home. The women had to…

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jered Diamond attempts to revolutionize the way we think about Europe’s rise to superiority. He tries to do this by proposing that Europe’s rise was the direct result of geography. Diamond believes geography gave the Europeans access to the best crops, and granted Europeans access to thirteen of the fourteen large, domesticized mammals. According to Diamond, these two fortunate circumstances allowed Europeans to develop societies that gave people the option to have a…

Are we humans perfectly fitted to the world we live in today? Evolutionary psychology suggests this may not be the case. An important concept in evolutionary psychology is mismatch (link is external) (1). Evolutionary mismatch occurs when the environment that organisms are adapted to, via a slow process of biological evolution, changes so quickly and intensely that it hinders these organisms to fulfill their reproductive needs. Take an example from nature. Deforestation has changed the habitats…