Mini Project

Basic Features of Human Existence:

• ·         Language
• ·         Religion
• ·         Art
• ·         Technology
• ·         Farming
• ·         Family Life
• ·         Village Communities

Prehistory: long before ancient times

Around 3000 B.C. 1st civilizations and were

·         Mesopotamia

·         Egypt

 In these civilizations there appeared complex

·         social and

·          economical structures

·          effective and

·          lasting government

·          writing systems capable of expressing any thought

·          compelling religious beliefs

·          impressive scientific and technical achievements

·          sophisticated literacy and

·          artistic styles.

 The achievements of these societies started to spread to other societies.

 For a society to learn the achievements of a civilization they had to

• ·         be wealthy enough to be worth trading with
• ·         conquering

 In 1200 B.C there came into existence an international region of civilization

• ·         with many local versions of Mesopotamian  
• ·         Egyptian traditions.

Asia, Africa influenced both western , non-western

• ·         Complex social
• ·         Government
• ·         Expressing thoughts scientific and
• ·         Technical achievement
• ·         sophisticated literary and artistic styles

Civilization is very recent and the first human like species appeared about 2.5 million years ago.

I think that my notes say that there is more than just geographical lucky involved.  My text book said that the basic features of human existence are Language, Religion, Art, Technology, Farming, Family Life , Village Communities.  I guess at first you could say that its geographical lucky but after thousands of years later to the present, they could be a more of a devolved country now if they wanted to.  They could make money off the gold mines to get a more civilized country, but the people of Papua New Guinea like their life style.