The first Civilization Note

-       The first civilization started around 3500 B.C.E. in 3 different places.

1) Mesopotamia (Iraq) – earliest written language

2) The Nile River (Egyptian civilization)- took shapes as a unified territorial state in which cities were rather less prominent.

            3) Central coast Peru civilization – this region received very little rainfall, but it was punctuated by dozens of rivers that brought the snowmelt.

-        Then they become seven, the four additional civilization joined 

1)    Olmee Civilization

2)    Norte Chico Civilization

3)    Nile Valley Civilization

4)    Mesopotamian Civilization

5)    Oxus Civilization

6)    Indus Valley Civilization

7)    Chinese Civilization (Shang Dynasty)

-       In Indus valley civilization they had very large city and they had a lot of builds.

-       Mesopotamian victory shows a lot of civilization on their art.

-       Shows a slavery art and War art.

-       In this society gender is matter, man has more priority than women and Son has more priority than daughter.

-       The agriculture societies are way far from Paleolithic society on gender idea.

-       Basically women’s has no any kind of priority. Man is a head of the house and he is the one who can make a decisions. He is the only one can have more than one wives.

-       Even though some women’s acting as a rulers, priests and scholars, while others pushed against the limits and restrictions assigned to women.

-       Writing start after drawing.

-       In Mesopotamia and elsewhere, writing served an accounting function, recording who had paid their taxes.

-       Also recording who owed what to the temple, and how much workers had earned.

-       Their first were drawing like using symbols to designate both whole words.

-       Most of the first civilizations had common future.

-       But there are some differences, which is political organization, religious beliefs, and the role of women’s.

-       Mesopotamia and Egypt civilizations were based on the river valleys and depend on their agriculture productive.

-       Nile was for Egypt and Tigris and Euphrates rivers for Mesopotamia.

-       They both get a natural soil and water on the river from other places.

-       But deserts, mountains, seas, and cataracts surrounded Egypt.

-       But Egypt has more free security than Mesopotamian.