Homo Sapiens Research Paper

While the true origins of modern humans or homo sapiens is shrouded in mystery, there are some things that we do know, there are some things we can speculate about and there are some things that are still just guesses. It is believed that the earlies homo sapiens originated around 200,000 years ago, but it has not been proved exactly when they appeared. It is also believed that early humans were a nomadic people that had to live on the move to follow resources and food. They had to make use of the environment around them, being hunters and gatherers is the only way they had to survive. The only tools they had were rudimentary at best having only knives and axes made from chipped rocks and using the hide and other things from animals that were

Also, the tools to help plant and harvest the crops, like early plows which were often pulled by oxen, and sickles for cutting the crops. Though no formal military was established during this time, with communities being permanent, conflict happened and would become violent. Also, with the raising of crops and following of the seasons the rise of a type of religion that worships nature and the changing of the weather. The farming communities also gave rise to the creation of pottery for the storage of grains and for other uses like cooking and ceremonies. With the growth of the farming society and the advances in tools and weaponry, the earlier humans began to flourish and grow. They were able to develop more advance societies, expand to more distant lands and turn into what society is today. The Achaemenid Persian Empire was one of the first of its kind in the world and also one of the largest the ancient world. Founded by Cyrus the Great, it is believed to have lasted from 550 BC to 330 BC. The Achaemenid Empire was highly diverse in its peoples ranging from Phoenicians, Babylonian, and Jewish just to name a

The Persian army had many encounters at different places and people but had particular problems with the small city states of Greese. Greese was broken up into city states that were self-reliant and had there own set of rules and leader, the most well known of them was Athens and Sparta. The Greeks were known for their advances in technology, art, architecture, mathematics and philosophy. The Greeks had their gods and goddesses to explain the creation of the universe and mankind what we call greek mythology. Even though the city states were there own entities both Sparta and Athens were strong military powers of their days, but Athens boasted the strongest navy of the time. Greek society was mainly male dominated, the classes showed who had the most money and land holdings, with the higher class having the most desirable land with the most protection. Women were treated as second class citizens with very little power, except in Sparta where the were required to physically train and allowed to drink wine. The Roman Empire that started out as the Roman Republic, started off in modern day Italy. Rome was originally a republic where elected officials were given the power to make decisions instead of having a king or emperor to