The Film Tree Of Iron By Peter Schmidt

Oldowan technology was first discovered at the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, site in the 1930s by Lewis and Mary Leakey. It has been dated to approximately 2.5 to 1.5 million years ago during the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene (Potts 1981:153), predating any other form of currently known lithic industries. Acheulean technology is more recent, dated to between 1.7 to 1.5 million years ago using radiometric dating from volcanic ash (White 1998:15). It was named after Saint-Acheule, Somme, France, where Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes discovered the site in 1859, although John Frere has been credited to its 1797 discovery. In terms of appearance, Oldowan tools can essentially be seen as “pebbles” altered to become sharp through the procedure of “relatively simple

The history of West Africa has its inhabitant traces is almost 6000 years ancient, but the earliest human beings who came here first were almost 12000 BCE. The enhancement in the farming took place after the arrival of a modern ancestor in the fifth millennium. After making connections with other civilizations like Mediterranean ones, the development of iron industry took place in every use of daily life. The common or traditional business of trade for them consisted of cotton, leather, metals, gold against horses, clothes, copper, salt, etc. They were modifying their lifestyles and politics as more as they were coming closer to other communities of the world (Ajayi, 1970).

While reading both ethnographies “The Hadza: Hunter-Gather of Tanzania” and “From Mukogodo to Maasai” it is easy to spot out differences and similarities between both these simple, yet complex, societies. People tend to believe that indigenous populations are always very similar, as I once did, but I would say while reading these ethnographies I found more differences between these communities and cultures than I did similarities. For my essay I am going to compare both the Mukogodo’s culture and life before and after the transition to Maasai to the life and culture of that of the Hadza. I am going to focus specifically on the similarities and differences between labor and labor

Everything about Otzi fascinated scientists and historians. His stomach revealed his last meal of deer, ibix, spelt bread and some vegetables. He was aged between 40 and 53, an impressive age for this period. His copper axe a ‘Remedello Axe’ was thought to have been first used much later than Otzi’s time. This discovery changed the dates of the Copper Age by a 1000 years. One observer

Throughout history, the circumstances that people were born into were not equal. While some people were born on hospitable lands where people and animals could flourish, others were born on desolate and isolated lands that proved unsuitable for livestock. These uncontrollable circumstances as well as others, such as climate, created the different types of lifestyles that people have adopted. Through the book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond illustrates the five themes of world history by explaining how a chain of effects starting from the first people interacting with their given environments and resources led to how they live in the present. While for the world it may seem apparent that one group of people seems to have the upper hand in the social hierarchy, Diamond shows his view that, in actuality, it only became this way because of the conditions that different groups of people had to cope with in the past.

The film Glory by Edward Zwick is one of the most well-known films of all time. The film itself is solely based upon the first formal unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War which consist of all African American men. They were essentially the very first unit of United States Colored Troops. They were formally known for their courageous attempts to and actions at Fort Wagner in 1863. The film is set in many different locations such as New York, Maryland, South Carolina and Massachusetts. In each of these different locations events took place that shaped our history. For example on November twenty seventh of 1862 Robert Shaw started to train soldiers. July eighteenth 1863 the Colonel Shaw and his troops attempted to take Fort Wagner, which didn’t succeed.

Throughout history, the circumstances that people were born into were not equal. While some were born on hospitable lands where people and animals could flourish, others were born on desolate and isolated lands that proved unsuitable for plants and livestock. These uncontrollable circumstances as well as others created the different types of lifestyles that people live by. Through the book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond illustrates the five themes of world history by explaining a chain of effects stemming from the first people interacting with their given environments. Diamond aimed to show his view that the social and racial hierarchy of the present only developed because of the conditions different groups of people had to cope

The scientists, archeologists, and historians must use science to reveal all of the answers. If it weren't for science many mysteries would still remain about the findings at the historical sites visited in this book. Written in Bone was an enjoyable read hidden with science sprinkled on every

On the Iron View peninsula lies one of the greatest ancient civilizations of all time, Quida. Quida started in 1560 B.C.E. Quida was the center of trade, had most advanced technology of their time, and a great location. Quida’s symbol was the mountain lion and their colors were blue and black which appeared on their flag in a stripe pattern. On the Iron View peninsula, there was a variety of geographical features that helped the people of Quida. There are two major rivers in the country and a mountain range with vast amounts of minerals. Quida is connected to the mainland by a narrow piece of land on which the people of Quida have built a wall.

In the book, “Guns, Germs and Steel” by Jared Diamond, Part Two talks about the roots of guns, germs, and steel, geographical differences relating to food production, causes of the spread of food production, development of ancient crops that are still used today, and domestication. Jared Diamond mostly likes to talk about the development of the Eurasian society and why they are more powerful. Instead of proximate causes that get straight to the point, he takes a different route that leads to ultimate causes. Ultimate causes go deeper in information and include many details unlike proximate causes. He does this and ultimately bothers with ultimate causes because proximate causes are common and shallow explanations. Ultimate causes trace

Archeologists such as Jarred Diamond, the author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel”, place the first humans in Madagascar as the Austronesian people from Indonesia around 500BC. It is believed that the Malagasy people came directly from Indonesia to Madagascar; this is evident through the

This book review is on Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond. The book was very interesting but a lot of the information could have been cut because it’s a bit too long. Jared Diamond is a scientist, not a historian and he’s American. He upset many historians around the world by the way he bashes Europeans. However, he did win a Pulitzer Prize for the book so that says something.

The constant struggle between progress and tradition has plagued every society over the course of human civilization. This struggle is represented in the Kamala Markandaya’s novel Nectar in a Sieve, through the tannery. The tannery represents modernization through multiple different elements, such as industrialization and social change. The tannery industry brought a new way of life to villager Rukmani and her family. Family values are a huge part of the traditional culture of the village, but when the tannery enters the picture this all changes. As the reader sees in Rukmani’s family, the appeal of wage work it too much for many young sons to resist. As stated above, this causes many of these young men to leave their family’s tenant farm

To contrast Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations, we take a look at West Africa and the Niger River Valley. The Niger River Valley may have become civilized much later than Mesopotamia and Egypt. Because of this the first cities of West Africa were thought to be trade centers. Archeologists once thought that trade had originally brought cities to West Africa and outsiders had introduced city building. However, upon further investigation, this viewpoint is challenged. Technology was much more advanced by the time African cities were constructed. Iron smelting had been developed and introduced to the people of the region. The Bantu people of lower Niger had begun giving up nomadic herding and are responsible for spreading their knowledge of agriculture to the tip of South Africa. It appears that the Bantu people had not built cities but someone must

These people made a discovery that made most everything we know today possible. They made the discovery of iron purification. Iron is a fairly common element on earth. we can mine it deep form within the earth's crust, but it can be found in mountains and in caves, it can even be found on the surface and in our water. The problem is that it is very hard to find it pure. Many times you can find it as iron oxide or as an ore mixed with other metals and rocks. The Hittites experimented and were able to separate iron from the impurities that were in it. Iron's melting point is about 2800 degrees Fahrenheit (onlinemetals). The Hittites were able to create furnaces to achieve this temperature and bring forth a weapon that no other group of people had ever seen before. Iron is an amazing pure element, it has higher toughness and tensile strength than copper or bronze, which gave the Hittites great advantages in weapons and armor. This knowledge soon spread though. It spread to Egypt and then the Bantu speaking people became very proficient at making iron.