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1
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Stone tools (hand axes)

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3.3 mya

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Homo sapiens

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250,000 BP

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3
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Expansion out of Africa

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100,000 BP

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Upper Paleolithic

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50-12,000 BP

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5
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Complex tools (Clovis Points)

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Upper Paleolithic

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Languages

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Upper Paleolithic

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Cave Paintings such as Lascaux

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Upper Paleolithic

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Indus river

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Harappa

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Urban planning (grid style streets, uniform house size, plumbing)

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Harappa

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10
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tortoise shells

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China

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11
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bronze vessels

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China

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Yellow (development of rice cultivation) and Yangtze rivers

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China

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Agriculturally rich lands because of the Nile

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Egypt

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14
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Focus on funerary monuments

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Egypt

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15
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Ancient Iraq

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Mesopotamia

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Location of Uruk

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Mesopotamia

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17
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Individual cities had a sense of independence

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Mesopotamia

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18
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tool upgrade that led to the megafaunal extinction

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Clovis points

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allowed humans to live and hunt in colder areas

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Clothing

20
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first example of non utilitarian markings

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Blombos Cave

21
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helped grow crops in areas with bad soil, but led to hyper-infestation

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Slash and burn agriculture

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from Uruk temple complex, shows societal hierarchy

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Warka vase

23
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Crops were a more efficient food source

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Agriculture Effects

24
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New farming techniques brought hyper-infestation and reduced biodiversity

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Agriculture Effects

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People began using animals for labor (secondary products revolution)

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Agriculture Effects

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What led modern historians to not consider disease as a major player in world history

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Modern disease-experienced populations

27
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What aided the creation of the Indian caste system, jati

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The mixing of groups with different diseases (civilized diseases vs. tropical diseases)

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What affected religious practices, such as dietary laws

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Diseases

29
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How long has malaria been affecting people

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A loooong time

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What did increased concentration of populace and living with animals lead to

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Higher levels of disease

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Increased by tropical regions and increased density of populace and proximity of living with animals, decreased with more temperate and colder regions and living at a distance from animals.

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Disease gradient

32
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a mutual adaptation that allows the parasite and host to both survive.

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Disease partnership

33
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civilizations break down smaller settlements around them through disease and warfare

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Epidemiological Digestion

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The story of man and disease can be compared to that of man and society, a complex relationship where one suffers while the other benefits or vice versa, and allows for a narrative explanation

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Macroparasitism vs. Macroparasitism:

35
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passed by rodents, currently named Yersinia Pestis after a Russian

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Pasteurella Pestis

36
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only possible with large enough populace, such as in Sumeria

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Measles

37
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sleeping sickness, carried by tse-tse fly

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Trypanosomes

38
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carried by water flukes, evident in irrigation societies

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Schistosomiasis

39
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Pops red blood cells, neutralized by sickle cell, passed by mosquito

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Malaria

40
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disease used on rabbits in Australia, example of how disease partnership develops

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Myxomatosis

41
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childhood disease, passed between generations

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Chicken Pox

42
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typically egalitarian (Gobekli Tepe, Jericho)

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Agricultural villages

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either horticulture or plow based with a designated hierarchy (Cahokia, Eridu)

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Chiefdoms

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centralized populaces where specialization occurs and bureaucracy is born (Uruk)

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Cities

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longer lasting than a single ruler, right to use violence (Egypt)

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States

46
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prayed to the gods to remove the disease, either by penitence or passing it on to another.

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Mursili II

47
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general plot points, relationship with life and death in the human experience

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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