Chapter 1 Dqs Harish

Harish Srinimukesh August 26, 2007 AP World History. Alexander-04 Chapter 1 Discussion Questions

Chapter 1 DQs

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Culture evolves from time to time as environmental conditions change, and technology, and methods of production change. This discovery of metallurgy allows civilizations such as Mesopotamia to switch from stone to bronze tools, example of material culture, as well as culture of skills. Dependant on the environment the locations in which dwellings are constructed are determined, and the climate of the surrounding environment decides the clothes to be worn. Religion could rise from the need of a higher being to look up to as a hope to improve the harvest of the environment. The necessity of writing comes as the technological advances are passed down between generations in China. Technological production calls for changes in culture as material cultures are changed and as skills necessary for these new materials rise as another cultural skill.

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Women stood to be equals to men, and in some cases rulers as well as goddesses of these ages. Before the rise of civilizations, women took on the role of food gathering. The understanding that the men were set to hunt conveys this role, thus showing the need for muscularity and endurance to kill game, while leaving the picking of fruit, nuts, and vegetable to women that only required the stamina to move around gathering the food. As the agricultural Revolution arrived, women were sent into their dwellings to maintain the house while men labored to maintain the land to receive a good harvest. Due to food surplus, women’s roles were shifter to giving birth. While in birth, specialized roles such as artisans and scribes were unavailable. Women maintained control of their dowry as well as property, and even got to keep their rights to trade, but politics fell to the men of society. In result of an urbanized middle class, private wealth, and advantages in laws for men, women went into a turbulent fall in standing after the second millennium B.C.E.