Chapter 1 (First Peoples)

In order to successfully understand world history you have to start off with studying The Big Bang! How this whole thing we call life came to be. Our very first ancestors, stars, were created during this Cosmic Era. Billions of years later later the formation of earth was created and throughout the 600 billion years since then organisms have continued to grow. Organisms have always been very fragile due to natural disasters and scarce resources. Overtime humans have multiplied and taken over more space than any other animal. 200,000 years old was the Paleolithic era when homo sapiens evolved known as the stone age. It wasn't till 10,000 years ago when agriculture started during the Neolithic era. 3,500 years ago was the Ancient era when humans first had civilization. Then from 500 B.C. to 1400 A.D. was the the classical era followed by the modern era.

Homo Sapiens started out in Africa and stayed there for more than 150,000 years. This is where human evolution firs occurred. Hunting and fishing was a new thing for humans here. Between 100,000 years ago and 60,000 years ago they started leaving Africa and went to Eurasia. Humans started creating boats to travel. It wasn't until between 30,000 years ago and 15,000 years ago when they started heading towards the Americas. During the Paleolithic era people had very small societies where everyone was super close. They were always on the move due to finding food to eat. A major difference that I found was during this Era there was no King, President, or ruler. Everyone was equal including women and men and lived a very tranquil lifestyle.

After the ice age about 12,000 years ago the climate became a lot more livable. animals and plants were flourishing which gave homo sapiens the ability to stay in one area permanently.

Learning about the cosmic, Gaiac, and Paleolithic eras gives me a better understanding of where we as humans come from. We have come such a far way from where we started billions and billions of years ago.

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