Warm Up

• Define the following:

• Prehistory

• Artifacts

• Anthropology

• Culture

• Archeology

• Hominids

Define Unit 1 Vocabulary

• Time: 20 minutes

• I am going to go around and check your work.

• This will serve as a participation grade.

Foundations of CivilizationPrehistory-300 B.C.

What is History?

What is Prehistory?

Studying the Historical Past

Prehistory= the long period of time before people invented writing.

Historians= are scholars who study and write about the historical past.

How do Historians learn about the past?

Artifacts

• Artifacts=are object made by humans

What is considered an artifact??

Investigating Prehistory

• Scholars want to learn about the origins and development of people and their societies. This field of study is called Anthropology.

• Anthropologist study things like bones and cultures.

What is a culture?

Anthropology

• the study of how people have developed and societies have grown over time

• culture – ways of life (religion, values, family life, etc.)

• - every

group of people has their own

Investigating Prehistory

• Archaeology is the study of past people and cultures through their material remains.

• Remains include things such as tools, weapons, pottery, clothing, and jewelry.

• Archaeologists find and analyze artifacts.

Video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_FwpNPqan8

Discoveries and Africa and Beyond• Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey searched

in the Olduvai Gorge and found some ancient tools.

• They concluded that whomever made them had learned to develop technologies to help them survive

Activity

• Complete Revolutions and Transitions in Society WS.

• Complete the Neolithic Revolution WS– 1 paragraph answers EACH!

• Both due EOC.

Warm Up

• Define the following:

• Neolithic Revolution

• Domestication

• Surplus

• Civilization

• Specialization

• Cultural Diffusion

• Nomad

Hominids

• Mary Leaky found the skull of a hominid in 1959.

• Hominids are a group that includes humans and their closest relatives, all walk upright and on two feet.

• Donald Johnson found many pieces of a single hominid dating back to 3 million years ago.

• Lucy

Early Hominid Groups• Australopithecines all lived in Africa about

7 million years ago. (Lucy)

• Homo Habilis (“Handy man”) lived 2 million years ago and were the first to invent tools.

• Homo Erectus( “upright man”) appeared around 2 million years ago. Larger brains and bones. They used new tools. FIRST TO USE FIRE!!!

Homo Habilis

Homo Erectus

But what about Ardi??!!

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrebQed8b2Q

Homo Sapiens

• Between 250,000 and 100,000 years ago, Homo erectus disappeared and Homo sapiens appeared. MODERN HUMANS!

Activity• https://vimeo.com/40849516• Watch the Caves of Lascaux• Then, individually construct your own “cave painting”

comic strip about what your own life. Must have at least THREE images– What do you do?– How would you draw your community/friends/family?– What are some important events in your life?– In one paragraph, EXPLAIN what these images mean.• Then in one paragraph, answer “how do you want

to be remembered in history?”

Warm Up

Define the following:

•City State

•Empire

•Hunter Gatherer

•Fertile Crescent

Turning Point:Neolithic Revolution

Old vs. New Stone Age

• 2 million B.C. - 10,000 B.C. – OLD Stone age (Paleolithic)

• 10,000 B.C. to the end of prehistory – NEW stone age (Neolithic)

• During the new stone age people began to develop skills and technologies that led to dramatic changes in their everyday lives.

Old Stone Age: Nomads• Nomads are people who move from place

to place to find food.

• 20-30 people in small groups

• Men hunted and fished while women and children gathered fruits, nuts, grains, or shellfish.

Developed strategies for survival during the Old Stone age

• Made tools with stone, bone, or wood

• Developed language

• Learned to travel across water

Neolithic Revolution

• Known as the transition from nomadic life to settled farming.

• Marked the beginning of the New Stone Age.

• People settled in permanent villages and developed new skills and technologies.

• Early farmers domesticated plants and animals.

Earliest Villages Established• Jericho

– Populations of a few thousands– Surrounded by a huge wall (2 soccer fields)

• Catalhuyuk

Tools

• Weapons such as the spear and the bow and arrow, snares, wheels and hooks.

• Domestication of plants and animals.

• FARMING!

• www.educanon.com/public/27304/75066

Activity

• I will divide you up into positive and negative pairs.

• Read the two articles and complete just part 1.

Warm Up

• What is the revolution that allowed people to go from hunter-gatherers to civilized people in settled communities?

Beginnings of Civilization

First Cities and Civilizations Arise

• All settled along major rivers.

• These areas favored farming by spreading silt.

• Farmers could produce surpluses of food.

• This allowed for villages to grow into cities.

River Valley Civilizations

• Civilization is a complex, highly organized social order.

First Civilizations in the Americas

• First civilizations were located in the highlands of Peru, Mexico, and Central America

Basic features that define civilization

• Organized Governments

• Complex Religions

• Job Specialization

• Social Classes

• Arts and Architecture

• Public Works

• Writing

Civilizations Change Over Time

• Environment Affects People’s Lives.– Need natural resources– Natural disasters

Civilizations Change Over Time

• Cultural Diffusion= The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another.– Trade– Warfare

Civilizations Change Over Time

• Cities Grow into City-States controlled by rulers, priests, and nobles.

First Empires

• An Empire is a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler.

Activity

• Answer the questions with your partner.

• Prepare for your side of the debate.

• Complete Part 1 and 2 of Debate.

• Prepare to present to another pair and then share with the rest of class.

• Due EOC

Warm Up

• Why do you think the nomad looks tired in the first panel?

• What does the nomad tell them?

• What does the Neolithic man tell them?

• What is the comic writer’s perspective of the Hunter-Gatherers compared to the Neolithic man?

Activity

• Neolithic Research---research answers to each question and provide 1 paragraph answers.

• PROVIDE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWERS.