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Mesolithics: The Old Stone Age

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How long have humans been around?

What are some of the disadvantages that the human species has?

What helps humans to have high populations, something that most other primates do not have?

What differences in appearance did the humans of The Old Stone Age have compared to use today?

Paleolithic era

What is the name of the ‘fresh blood’ of the human kind?

What were some things that slowed down the advancement of the human species I this era?

What was the greatest accomplishment in this era?
What aided them in this accomplishment?

Mesolithic

Neolithic

What increased the human population?

What two reasons did humans really need agriculture?

How was agriculture …show more content…

Human beings are omnivores, which means they eat both meat and plants, this helps them to live all over the world in all sorts of climates and settings. Also human beings have a very regular and high sex drive, which isn’t like most other primates, this aids in reproduction and increases in the species number. Humans also have a wide variety of facial expressions, which helps with communication and brings social life to a higher …show more content…

The things listed above were building blocks for human societies because, while they might have taken awhile to spread, they didn’t need to be reinvented. As I said earlier the Middle East was where agriculture, metalworking, and village structure first came from, so its not really that big a surprise that the first civilization came from there too. The first civilization was called Mesopotamia and it was located in a valley of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. This civilization was one of the only civilizations to come up from absolutely nothing (meaning they didn’t copy anyone, or see any examples from anyone else).
Note: Central America and Chinese civilization also didn’t get any ideas from someone else.
*In 4,000 B.C.E. farmers in Mesopotamia already had invented the

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