Chapter+Two-We+gather+by+the+rivers


 * Chapter Two-We gather by the rivers: **
 * Approximately 10,000 years ago humans began the transaction between hunter and gatherer to farmer. It started with a group of humans following a herd of sheep and killing the sheep when they needed to. Then, they began to trap them, settle down, and learn how to grow their own crops and keep their own herds of animals. They started building larger huts, better storage facilities, and started building more a more permanent lifestyle and surroundings.
 * The farming revolution took approximately 1,000 years to complete. At one point during this time an ice man died and became frozen in the ice. He was recently found in Italy by a few tourists. He was found carrying a copper blade, he had charcoal tattoos, and numerous amount of other objects carried on him. Experts believe that he was a chief or Wise Man, they also believed that he died in a battle, or a challenge because he has an arrow piercing in his left shoulder. In his stomach, they found goat meat and wheat.
 * Civilization is believed to have started in what is now Iraq by a village named Sumer. They are thought to have started the written language, they began city-states, they had tax collectors, judges, and supervisors. They written the first laws. Sumerians were much more advanced then some of their neighbors. Some of the evidence includes discovered old pots, written documents, poems, letters, and a stone tablet with written laws. Their kings began to conquer surrounding villages and “stabilized” a larger kingdom around 2800 B.C.
 * Ancient Egypt is a civilization similar to Sumer, but they lived along the Nile River. These people had pharaohs, who were believed to be Gods, instead of kings. Egypt is the second possible candidate to start the written language, but they were the first to invent the written alphabet, even though they did not include any vowels. They are known for their giants, man-made pyramids that would take years to build as tombs for their pharaohs.
 * Egypt began to fall apart around 2100 B.C., they suffered, then they were ruled by Southern Egyptians. The Pharaohs became more distant from their people. Egypt lost its power around 1100 B.C.