1.Around 10,000 B.C., with the end of the ice ages, people began to settle down in one place and grow crops and domesticate animals. This was the "agricultural revolution." (This begins the Neolithic era 新石器时代)
2."John Green’s Crash Course: The Agricultural Revolution" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I
3.Eventually these settlements grew and became more complex cities. There was an "urban revolution" and this is when we think of the beginning of "civilization."
4.We‘ll start by looking at civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt, although historians have identified seven "civilizations" occurring around the world about the same time.
5.Examine this map of the seven civilizations (page 36 in the textbook). Where are they? Why are they all close to water?
6.Chapters 1-3 in the textbook
Persia / Greece / Elgin Marbles / Roman Empire 波斯 / 希腊 / 埃尔金大理石雕塑 / 罗马帝国
History 2 : First Civilizations
原文：https://www.cnblogs.com/JasperZhao/p/13282289.html