Time and Space
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Our planet is millions of years old but modern humans have only been on this planet for thousands of years. Anatomically modern human beings, Homo sapiens sapiens-genus Homo, species sapiens, sub species sapiens, first appeared about 100,000 years ago, but human family is much older . These older ancestors of ours were the first to invent tools using stones. Later on down our timeline we find other species go from using stone as tools to using more complex stone tools. Then there were Neandertals who used these stone tools for weapons. Modern humans entered Europe about 35,000 years ago . When the modern human emerged the Neandertals disappeared. No one really knows what happened to them. We can speculate that they disappeared because of modern humans and their advancement in making better stone weapons that they used to fight with the Neandertals. However from the emergence of modern humans came a time where humans made great progress in culture change.
In this time of cultural change we see more sophisticated tools, shelter, and family cohesiveness. Modern humans exploited natural resources, largely by means of technology and organization . To this day humans still exploit the natural resources by using technology and organization, sometimes too much. Early modern humans would hunt and gather from their environment. Men would hunt and the women would gather the plants. They would also move around but there were some that started to form small societies of these hunter-gatherer humans. These first families were made up of male, female and their offspring. Then the families grew to include other modern humans by way of marriage, thus began the first societies. With the emergence of these early societies there were more mouths to feed therefore modern humans began to produce food by planting crops and raising animals. The human discovery and spread of agriculture, between about 10,000 and 5000 B.C People first domesticated dogs and other animals and then learned how to cultivate crops . Due to agriculture discovery the modern human population rose. Because of the rise of population, the use of copper for metal and agriculture societies grew until there was the first civilization.
The first civilization began in Mesopotamia and Egypt between 3500 and 3000 B.C. Because of this new civilization modern humans could set up a large and specialized labor force, organized by a strong government, made it possible to expand control over nature, improve technology, and trade and compete over ever widening areas . This shows how we as humans got started using our brains to create things over and over again to make our lives better.