- 10,000 BCE - agriculture
- For the first time people start to stay in one place for significant periods of time
- Goes through a very long period of development - becomes the ancient world
- Stone gives way to metal - bronze age
- First great civilizations in Egypt Mesopotamia
- Human beings still have rituals, complex systems, engage in altered states of consciousness
- Epic of Gilgamesh, Egyptian mythology, Sumerian important, long lasting.
- Next: The Axial Age