Today in class we learned a lot about the prehistoric era, which happened before people started writing things down. 200,000 years ago human species roamed the earth during this era. There are two main ages in the prehistoric era, the Paleolithic Age (old stone age) and the Neolithic Age (new stone age). During the old stone age everything was based around stone while during the new stone age the development of new tools were created starting the first glimpse of agriculture. People migrated wherever the animals and food supply went. Another major point in prehistory was the agriculture revolution, this is when people started settling down instead of migrating. The people made settlements centered around farming and started to domesticate animals. Because of this, population increased because there was better care for children and new technology was invented like the wheel and plow. One of the first settlements that started this whole revolution was the city of Sumer, it occupied the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (fertile crescent). Sumerians invented the first form of writing (cuneiform) they also had better food storage which allowed diversity in professions: priests, tradesman, artisans, farmers.......
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