Midterm PowerPointBy: Jordan Love

First Human Migration: Clovis People

The first clearly defined and widespread cultural traditioned people in the Americas.

Was spread all over North America and flourished between 12,000 and 11,000 years ago.

Camped along rivers, springs, and waterholes where large animals gathered.

Disappeared around the time other large animals became extinct for reasons unknown.

First Human Migration: Dreamtime An elaborate and complex view

of the world by the early humans in Australia.

Was expressed through endless stories, long ceremonies and in evocative rock art.

Told of the beginnings of things; how ancestors crisscrossed the land forming rivers, hills, rocks and waterholes; how the people came to inhabit the land, how they relate to animals and each other.

The Erosion of Equality: Hierarchies of Class

With new technology came new wealth and riches that piled up within one class rather than spreading equally throughout.

As the first civilizations took place inequality and hierarchy became known as normal and natural.

Slaves were the lowest of the classes, however, unlike in the America's slaves weren’t categorized by skin color and their children could be born free.

The Erosion of Equality: Hierarchies of Gender

As agricultural societies started to use animals to farm, women were getting pushed out of the fields. This is what was guessed to have started the inequality among men and women.

Also growing populations meant that women were more often pregnant and unable to do physical labor and were primarily responsible in the home.

China's Search for Order: Confucian

This way of thinking originated from a thinker and a teacher named Confucius.

Believed to restore order in China the relationship between superior and inferiors needed to be changed.

“The relationship between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.”

China's Search for Order: Dao Almost the completely

opposite idea to Confucianism.

Urged people to withdrawal into the world of nature and encouraged people to act in ways that was spontaneous, individualistic and natural.

The dao, “moves around and around, but does not on this account suffer. All life comes from it. It wraps everything with its love as in a garment...”