Our Western Civ class was very short today due to the 2-hour delay. But we started our new chapter which is about Prehistory to Civilization (3000 - 1200 B.C.) 

Before Civilization: Prehistoric Era (Lo - 1) 

• Origins and
  "ages" of Human Beings 
• 200,000 years ago a human species emerged in southwestern Africa
• 14,000 years ago, worldwide human race existed 
• Paleolithic age is the earliest prehistoric age 
• Neolithic age was marked by tool making and the beginning of agriculture

Agricultural Revolution 

• Also know as the Neolithic Revolution 
• Population rose, because they could now care for the children 
• Hierarchies in village life, women had a lower status and were to do more domestic duties
• Invention of the wheel and plow made it possible to produce enough food for storage 
• Villagers were still polytheists, worshipped multiple nature, human and animal gods

Mesopotamia then .... 

Mesopotamia Now