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It was surprising to learn that the hierarchies of gender, still happening today, started "at least since the emergence of the First Civilizations," around 3500 B.C.E., where "gender systems have been patriarchal, meaning that women have been subordinate to men in the family and in society generally" In the Paleolithic era, gathering and hunting societies created a type of gender systems that maintained a certain equality between genders. But Historians, mentioned in the Ways of the World textbook, wanted to clarify the reason that "civilizations seemed to generate a more explicit and restrictive patriarchy."  They found that in the Neolithic era, with more intensive form of agriculture, societies became more sedentary and more field work was performed. It was often done at a distance of their homes though and women was unable to leave their primary responsibilities, for child rearing and food preparation, so men needed to do it. It was also considered tha...

Can you imagine being the last member of your people and still having to cooperate with anthropologists who wanted to document your people's culture?  In the mid=nineteenth century, Ishi's people, a gathering and hunting group known as the Yahi, consisted of about 400 people who seemed to live of life of tranquility until the 1849 Gold Rush brought lots of people who felt superior than them and were "too glad to clean up the Indians." Ishi's father was killed in a massacre that happened in 1865 and after that there was only the young Ishi, his mother and a few others who escaped. They lived constantly hiding and avoided leaving footprints moving around jumping from rocks to rocks. In 1894, Yahi's community had only Ishi, his mother, his sister or cousin, and an older man and woman. In 1908, a group of Americans saw Ishi fishing and later found his settlement. They saw Ishi's mom but didn't harm her but took all movable items, such as baskets, tools, fo...

I found it interesting to read that the first Paleolithic societies, first human societies, seemed to be content with the life they lived, the resources they had available and made the best of what they had. Per Captain James Cook's describes the gathering and hunting peoples of Australia in 1770, "They live in a Tranquility which is not disturb'd by the Inequality of Conditions. The Earth and sea of their own accord furnishes them with all things necessary for life, they covet not Magnificent houses, Household-stuff... In Short they seem'd to set no value upon any thing we gave them...They think themselves provided with all the necessarys of Life." (Strayer, 2016, p. 21). They lived a very humble life and didn't need anything else to live. Nowadays, we have so many other tools, technology, resources, and still think we need more and more. My family and I try to live a humble life and value what we have but, often, we feel the pressures of society to have more...

Hello everyone, The five major eras of human history are:  Paleolithic  à Neolithic  à Ancient  à Classical  à Modern Based on my findings below, as a historian, I would rearrange the World History Timeline by adding the Cosmic era before the Paleolithic era and the Ecozoic era after the Modern era.  Cosmic à Paleolithic  à Neolithic  à Ancient  à Gaiac  à Classical  à Modern à Ecozoic We might want to add these three additional eras to the five Western historical perspective major eras based on when approximately each of the eras emerged:   à Cosmic   .........  13.8 billion years ago à Paleolithic .......... 3 million years à Neolithic .............12,000 years ago à Ancient .................5,019 years ago à Gaiac ....................5,000 years ago à Classical ...............1,544 years ago à Modern ....................528 years ago à Ecozoic ......................40 years ago ROOT OF THE TERMS Cosmic Cosmos:...

Hello everyone, I had fun researching about Early Humans. This information is all new to me so, again, I couldn't stop reading about it from several sources. I hope you also enjoy my findings below. How far back does the human species go?   Based on the illustration of recent fossil discoveries below, posted in January 11, 2019, contributor John Rafferty, human species goes back at least 4 million years ago. It demonstrates the evolution of Australopithecus and Hominin. Note that for nearly 1 million years, some members of Australopithecus and Homo overlapped in time with one another. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Homo-sapiens/Origin Was  Australopithecus  a species of human? Australopithecus afarensis was a species of human capable of walking upright but only adapted to travel short distances on the ground. Studies done on hominid fossils found in sub-Sahara, Africa, shows evidence that they lived from 3.8 to 2.9 million years ago and hominid fossils have be...

Big History is a project to change the way 13.7 billion years of history is taught in schools. At first, I thought that the project suggested the school’s S ocial Studies curriculum to be taught in one discipline, the Big History class. I knew it wouldn’t be possible to do it in 1 year, the length of the Big History project. After researching a little more about it, it seems to be an additional subject to be introduced to High School students. Either way, any modification to how history is taught can be beneficial to all of us and can hopefully spark creativity to inspire us to improve the way we live. History is currently taught in several different classes, such as, American History, World History, Geography, US Government, European History, International Relations, Economics, Psychology, etc. It would be great if this classes were intentionally connected in some way.          T his is the first time I hear about this concept and it caught my attention right a...

Hi, I am Sarita. Number of replies: 3 I am studying Business Administration here at NDNU and am working on my last classes to be able to graduate. I am very curious about World History and because I am on the Finance field, I didn't have a change to explore about our history like I will in this class. I am looking forward to learning from this class material and conversations with you all and hope I can keep up with all the reading and writing required. I prefer the in-class environment and am trying to adapt to the new online learning style. I was born in Brazil in second generation Italian, German and Portuguese families. I am very curious to find out more details about my ancestors but haven't made it a priority just yet. When I do, I would like to visit the places my family come from and learn about our history. For now, I really enjoy living in the melting pot of the Bay Area. The opportunity to meet people from all around the world is very unique. I also love going back h...