Technology And Transportation During The United East And...

- World â€Å"getting smaller† due to constant development in technology and transportation. - Other nations can be affected by other countries actions from half way across the world because of rapid speed of communication. - Smaller world increases sameness/similarities between several countries, decreasing diversity. -Late 1990s, conflicts between Christians and Muslims led to American troops intervention. Ex: Japan enforcing rules for children to use chopsticks in 1984, Muslim leaders making religion priority around the 70s. -Russia w/ democracy -China combining politics and economics -Women’s roles in the work force changing for the better -US media surpasses India although lead in production of movies -Plowing equipment from China to†¦show more content†¦man species 30,000 B.C.E -Movement from Siberia to South America in 16,000 -14,000: Great Ice Age ends 10,000 B.C.E -9,000: animals get domesticated -8,500 to 3,500: Middle East starts farming 6,000 B.C.E -6,000: invented potter’s wheel -5,000: Mesoamerica domesticates corn -5,000 to 2,000: culture develops in China – Huang He 4,000 B.C.E -4,000 to 3,000: Middle East begins innovative work -3,5000 to 1,800: Sumerian civilization -3,100: Rise of Egyptians 3,000 B.C.E -2,500: Indian (Indus) Harappan civilization -2,050 to 1,750: Babylonian Empire 2,000 B.C.E -2,000: Kotosh culture in Peru and agriculture in northern Europe and southern Africa -1,500: writing, Shang kingdom emerges (China), first ironwork (Middle East) -1,200: Jews (first monotheistic) settles near Mediterranean -1,122: China – Western Zhou kings -Human species emergenced 2 to 2.5 million years ago - Managed to spread and take control in short amount of time Negatives -Aggressiveness -Longer dependence in earlier stages of life -Health problems are more prominent and impacts for the worse Positives -Opposable thumb -Knowledge of possibility of death -Advantages in sexual reproduction -Adaptable appetites, can eat various foods -Capability of elaborate and better ways of communication (speech, behavior, facials) -Humans learned to use simple tools 14,000 years ago (rocks and sticks) -Fire tamed 750,000 years ago -Between 50,000 and 750,000 years ago Homo erectus emerged (larger brains, erect stature) in