Prehistory: From the Beginning of Civilization to Circa 3000 BC
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Three Age system
o Stone Age
 Paleolithic Age
 Up to 8000 BC
 Hunter gathers
 Neolithic Age
 Circa 8000 to 3000 BC
 “Agricultural Revolution”
 Settled Communities
o Bronze Age
 Bronze Tools and Weapons
o Iron Age
 Iron Tools and Weapons
Mesopotamia
o “Land Between the Rivers”
o Fertile Crescent
Sumer
o Ubaid Culture(Circa 5900BC)
o Uruk Period (Circa 4300-2900 BC)
 City State
 Size
 Temples
o Technology
 Writing
 Pictography
 Cuneiform
o Cuneus - Wedge-shaped
o Reed Stylus
o First form of writing
 Pre-History to History
 Bronze Weapons and Tools
 The Wheel
 Nomads?
 Pottery
 Mathematics
 “Sexagesimal”
 Units of 60
 Reflected now how?
 Lunar Calendar