1. Warm Up Define the following: Prehistory Artifacts Anthropology
Culture
Archeology
Hominids

2. Define Unit 1 Vocabulary
Time: 20 minutes
I am going to go around and check your work.
This will serve as a participation grade.

3. Foundations of Civilization
Prehistory-300 B.C.

4. What is History? What is Prehistory?

5. 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?

6. Artifacts Artifacts=are object made by humans
What is considered an artifact??

7. 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?

8. 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

9. 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.

10. Video

11. 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

12. Activity Complete Revolutions and Transitions in Society WS.
Complete the Neolithic Revolution WS
1 paragraph answers EACH!
Both due EOC.

13. Warm Up Define the following: Neolithic Revolution Domestication
Surplus
Civilization
Specialization
Cultural Diffusion
Nomad

14. 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

15. 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!!!

16. Homo Habilis

17. Homo Erectus

18. But what about Ardi??!!

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

22. 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?”

23. Warm Up Define the following: City State Empire Hunter Gatherer
Fertile Crescent

24. Turning Point: Neolithic Revolution

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. Developed strategies for survival during the Old Stone age
Made tools with stone, bone, or wood
Developed language
Learned to travel across water

28. 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.

29. Earliest Villages Established
Jericho
Populations of a few thousands
Surrounded by a huge wall (2 soccer fields)
Catalhuyuk

30. Tools
Weapons such as the spear and the bow and arrow, snares, wheels and hooks.
Domestication of plants and animals.
FARMING!

31. Activity I will divide you up into positive and negative pairs.
Read the two articles and complete just part 1.

32. Warm Up
What is the revolution that allowed people to go from hunter-gatherers to civilized people in settled communities?

33. Beginnings of Civilization

34. 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.

35. River Valley Civilizations
Civilization is a complex, highly organized social order.

36. First Civilizations in the Americas
First civilizations were located in the highlands of Peru, Mexico, and Central America

37. Basic features that define civilization
Organized Governments
Complex Religions
Job Specialization
Social Classes
Arts and Architecture
Public Works
Writing

38. Civilizations Change Over Time
Environment Affects People’s Lives.
Need natural resources
Natural disasters

39. Civilizations Change Over Time
Cultural Diffusion= The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another.
Trade
Warfare

40. Civilizations Change Over Time
Cities Grow into City-States controlled by rulers, priests, and nobles.

41. First Empires
An Empire is a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler.

42. 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

43. 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?

44. Activity
Neolithic Research---research answers to each question and provide 1 paragraph answers.
PROVIDE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWERS.