Stephanie Guerin-Yodice
When you finish this chapter, you should be able to:
- identify tools that were instrumental in advancing human societies in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods
- understand how technology advanced nomadic peoples from hunter-gatherers to emerging agricultural communities
- identify how technology was applied to everyday life and how it developed into a material culture
- analyze how technological advances transformed Mesopotamia from an agricultural society to city-states and then to advanced civilizations
- gain knowledge pertaining to the technological dissemination of ideas throughout the Fertile Crescent
