Domestication Agriculture Surplus

Warm Up 1.Tell me 2 things about hunter gatherers. 2.Tell me 2 things about domestication. 3.Tell me 2 things about Agriculture. 4.Tell me 2 things about Technology.

Warm up: Read Periods of History and answer the following questions on the warm up paper. 1.History is divided into _______ periods. 2.What is prehistory? 3.What are the 3 periods of prehistoric time? 4. When did recorded history begin? 5.What did people do during the old stone age? 6.What is a nomad? 7.True/ False during the old stone age humans discovered fire. 8.Name 2 things humans used fire for. 9.What did nomads do when they left their cave dwellings? 10. Name 2 things that scientists discovered from the old stone age. 11. The old stone age covered how much of the human race’s time on earth? 12.True/ False during the new stone age people began to gain greater control of their environment. 13.Where did people start to settle? 14.During this time animals were ____________________. 15.What is domesticated? 16.Name 2 things animals were used for. 17.What caused human population to grow? 18.Having __________________, ___________________, _______________ people were able to stay in one place.

Warm Up: Look up the following words in the Glossary. Write the definition for # 6 1.Nomad 2.Hunter Gatherer 3.Domesticate 4.Surplus 5.Technology 6.Agriculture= Farming. To grow food to sustain life. Regular English to grow food.

Warm Up Have you ever gone camping? How would you survive if you got lost in the woods? Where would you go to find food and water?

Hunter Gatherers Hunter Gatherers: early humans that would hunt animals and gathered plants for food. When they ran out of food they moved to another location. Used the area around them for food and shelter. Lived in small bands of people. (usually 30) Men hunted and fished Women gathered foods from berries and nuts

Development of Tools Fire About 500,000 years ago early humans learned to make fire. Fire could be used for 1.Cooking Food 2.Provide Light 3.Protection from Animals 4.Metal.

Development of Technology Technology: Ways in which people apply tools and invention to meet their needs. – Stone Tools – Bags – Hand Axes

Learning to Farm and Raise Animals Domestication of Animals Domestication- To raise or tend (a plant or animal) to be used by humans. Humans learned to domesticate animals like sheep and goats in 9000 B.C. Provided food and clothing.

Learning to Farm and Raise Animals Agricultural Revolution 8000 B.C. people learned about agriculture: Agriculture is planting seeds to raise crops. Created a shift in food gathering to raising food.

Farming Villages Develop Many farming villages were found around River Valleys because of plentiful water and good soil. As tools improved, people became better farmers. (Equals More food) Groups stayed in the same areas instead of moving around and around. Villages grew because of food surpluses.

First Communities Surplus: an amount produced in excess of what is needed. Surpluses boost development. As farming techniques improve farmers would have extra food. (Surplus) Also farmers would have a surplus in other materials such as sheep. Because of surpluses in food, not everyone had to raise food to survive. – Potters – Weavers – Holy People These people would trade their services for food.

First Communities With extra food and other supplies people could live together. As the community grows people felt the need for laws and leadership. Government provided order and provided leadership.

Create a comic strip. 1. For each major event in human history draw in a picture and paraphrase it. 2. (Paraphrase and Draw a picture for each box)