1. The Paleolithic societies were small with bands of twenty-five to fifty people are different from other societies due to their religion, social organizations, government, tool kits, and diet & clothing, and adapting to the environments.
2. The Agricultural Revolution resulted in developing a more orderly way of living life; several groups didn’t want to tag along and were comfortable living as hunter & gathers. The overall development of economic, political, and social of the Mesopotamian Civilization was being able to farm and produce their own food.
3. Agricultural societies differed from the Paleolithic era by them experiencing a better social inequality; were bigger and more compactly settled, developed more advanced technologies and less transportable. Agricultural societies’ everyday health and life was not necessarily better then in Paleolithic societies.
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The Agricultural Revolution was a lasting process rather than a turning point , the statement gave evidence of ‘progress’ such as growth of population, the beginning of power of humankind and technological innovations, including techniques for metallurgy, making pottery, and weaving textiles.
Chapter 2
1. The word “civilization” is viewed in different way from different perspectives, historians view civilizations as the first and older civilization, the popular usage for the word “civilization” is viewed as refined behavior or a “higher” form of society. Since reading this chapter, I view the term the same way as the historians.
2. I do agree with the statement because it took a lot to maintain a civilization as one. And if there was no one to take control and take charge people wouldn’t have been together.
3. The various First Civilizations differ from one another was by their beliefs, rules for women, and the cities. For example Egyptian women had more control as the Mesopotamians had firm rules for women. Cities in Egypt were not as important as they were to the