Watch Junot Díaz: Immigrants, Masculinity, Nerds and Art (Chicago Humanities Festival), Clips A, B & C (23:00 min. total watch time). Jot down your observations and note and commentary and/or points you find interesting for all questions pertaining to each clip. Feel free to work individually or in teams of (2). If you work in teams, be sure that each team member submits a separate copy of this [PP] Activity, even if the responses are the same. Include the names of all members that collaborated on the activity. Individual submission ensures that you will receive a grade for this assignment.
Around 3500 BCE, what your text calls “complex societies” began
Around 3500 BCE, what your text calls “complex societies” began to form in the Fertile Crescent of present-day Iraq and along the banks of the Nile in Egypt. These two societies—Mesopotamia and Egypt—developed along parallel lines in many ways, but they also encountered challenges and benefits unique to their situations.