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The First Agrarian Societies
Lecture no. 26 from the course: Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity
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Taught by Professor David Christian | 32 min | Categories: History
Although early agrarian societies left behind no written record, there is evidence of many important new developments during this period. Here, we explore the lifeways of these societies, and question whether agriculture meant the early farmers lived better than their forager ancestors....
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What Is Big History?
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Moving across Multiple Scales
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Simplicity and Complexity
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Evidence and the Nature of Science
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Threshold 1-Origins of Big Bang Cosmology
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How Did Everything Begin?
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Threshold 2-The First Stars and Galaxies
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Threshold 3-Making Chemical Elements
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Threshold 4-The Earth and the Solar System
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The Early Earth-A Short History
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Plate Tectonics and the Earth's Geography
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Threshold 5-Life
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Darwin and Natural Selection
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The Evidence for Natural Selection
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The Origins of Life
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Life on Earth-Single-celled Organisms
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Life on Earth-Multi-celled Organisms
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Hominines
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Evidence on Hominine Evolution
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Homo sapiens-The First Humans
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Paleolithic Lifeways
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Change in the Paleolithic Era
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Threshold 7-Agriculture
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The Origins of Agriculture
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The First Agrarian Societies
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Power and Its Origins
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Early Power Structures
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From Villages to Cities
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Sumer-The First Agrarian Civilization
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Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions
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The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made
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Long Trends-Rates of Innovation
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Long Trends-Disease and Malthusian Cycles
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The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era
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Threshold 8-The Modern Revolution
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The 20th Century
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