1. Essential Question: What is the impact of geography on the following?
Human Settlement and Migration
Spread of ideas / cultural diffusion
Early Humans
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2. Australopithecines 1st to grow the opposable thumb
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First humanlike creature to walk upright

3. How it all began…
Homo Sapiens (modern humans) appeared in Africa 100,000 to 400,000 years ago.
Then migrated to
Europe
Asia
Australia
The Americas

4. How did they find their food?
Early human societies met their needs by hunting animals and gathering other foods like edible plants.
These hunters and gatherers were also known as nomads.

5. Nomads
Nomads: People who depend on wild plants and animals to survive. They followed where the food supply went and gathered seeds and nuts.

6. HUMAN LIFE IS SPLIT INTO
TWO PERIODS!
TO BE CONTINUED…

7. Road to the Agricultural Revolution
Paleolithic to Neolithic Era
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8. Prehistory
Prehistoric or Prehistory – refers to the time before the advancement of writing.

9. Paleolithic Era Paleolithic Era also means Old Stone Age.
The Paleolithic or old stone age began 2 million years go.

10. Paleolithic Era Homo Sapiens during this period were: Nomads
The first to make simple tools and weapons.
Make cave art
Master the use of Fire.
Develop a language
Living in clans

11. Neolithic Era Neolithic Era also means the new stone age.
Homo Sapiens during this period:
Developed agriculture
Domesticated animals
Used advanced tools like spears
Developed weaving skills

12. The Agricultural Revolution
The Neolithic Age is sometimes called the Agricultural Age
Nomads turned to Farmers
They learned to domesticate (tame) animals
They learned to farm their food

13. What did it all lead to?
All of these developments led to the rise of settlements and agriculture.
This advanced homo sapiens towards civilization.

14. Neolithic Age
Mastered the art of farming, had complex societies & created armies to protect walled cities
 One early city - Catal Huyuk, located in present day Turkey.  
They built mud-brick homes.  Catal Huyuk means Forked Mound.
 High point from 6700 to 5700 B.C.
Archaeological excavation and conservation by an international team started in 1993 under the direction of Dr Ian Hodder of the Çatalhöyük Research Project, Stanford University.

15. Catal Huyuk could have looked similar to this graphic.
Residents entered cities with ladders.
Lineage Groups or Kinship Units traced descendants through Matrilineal or Patrilineal
Catal Huyuk could have looked similar to this graphic.

16. 2 Early Neolithic Towns Catal Huyuk & Jericho

17. Catal Huyuk Art Forms
Jericho: It is also believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.

18. MANKIND 1

19. The Five Features of a Civilization
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20. Advanced Cities In order to be considered a city it must have:
1. Large population
2. Must be a center of TRADE

21. Complex Institutions
Institution – a long lasting pattern of organization in a community such as
Government
Religion
Economy

22. Technology
New tools and techniques that solve problems and make life easier

23. Specialized Workers
Specialized means someone has the skills to do a specific kind of work

24. Record Keeping
Must have a developed system of writing so the people can:
Record business
Write a set of laws
Priests can record rituals and dates

25. Pneumonic Device Ants Can’t Take Slick Rice Advanced Cities
Complex Institutions (government, religion)
Take
Technology
Slick
Specialized workers
Rice
Record Keeping

26. MANKIND Pt 2

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