The word “first civilization” is usually applied to the earliest communities which showed the simultaneous characteristic of urbanization, specialization of labor, pottery-making, and agriculture.The gains were in population, consistent food supplies, technology, defensibility and arts.Compared to hunter-gatherer communities, the early civilization may have seen increasing discrimination, both between rich and poor and between genders. Greater organization would also lead to greater mechanisms of social control, and consequently some shrinking of personal freedom. Finally, population growth combined with fixed locations of population dense urban areas led to degradation of the natural environment and possibly desertification.
There have been many changes in the sub-Saharan region where the Aksum Kingdom once thrived. The most obvious change is the name, now Ethiopia, but there is much more. The major exports of the Aksum Kingdom were crystal, brass, copper, frankincense, myrrh, gold, and ivory. The major export of Ethiopia is coffee. Although Christianity has remained in Ethiopia from the time of the kingdom of Aksum, some Ethiopians are Muslim. Finally, a major change of the region is the language. The people of Aksum spoke Ge'ez, a mixture of South Arabian, Greek, and
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Lasting roughly 2.5 million years, the Stone Age ended around 5,000 years ago when humans in the Near East began working with metal and making tools and weapons from bronze. During the Stone Age, humans shared the planet with a number of now-extinct hominin relatives, including Neanderthals and Denisovans
