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Miguel Chavez World History Chapter 2 The earliest of these civilization emerged around 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE in three places. One was the cradle of Middle Eastern Civilization, expressed in the many and competing city states of Sumer in Southern Mesopotamia.  Sumerians civilization like gave rise to the worlds earliest written language which was used initially by officials to record the goods received by various temples.  In northeastern Africa witnessed the mergence of Egyptian civilization famous for its pharaohs and pyramids, as well as a separate civilization known as Nubia, farther south along the Nile.  Recently discovered a third civilization that was developing along the central coast of Peru from roughly 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE at about the same time as Egypt and Sumer.  Norte Chico, 3000-1800 BCE Indus Valley and Oxus, 2200 BCE-1700 BCE Xia, Shang and Zhou 2200-711BCE Olmec, 1200 BCE The development of Agriculture. Agricultural Revolution  ...

Breakthrough in Agriculture In this chapter it talks about the development of humankind and the way they changed the world. Humankind it self began to change the world from using things in nature to changing and evolving everything around them. For example, farmers everywhere stamped the landscape with a human imprint in the form of fields with boundaries terraced hillsides irrigation ditches and canals. Animals were also changed to fit humankind needs. Sheep began to grow more wool, cows gave more milk and chickens laid more eggs than their world counterpart.