1. Neoloithic cartoon Who are the men in the first square?
What difficulties are they facing?

2. NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION

3. Paleolithic era

4. Paleolithic era For millennia, people lived as nomads
Moved from place to place, seeking food & shelter
Animals were primarily wild, not domesticated
People migrated with the seasons & weather
Animal skin dwelling ; model of a yurt

5. Domestication of animals
What’s domestication?
Taming animals so humans can use them
Example?
Why is domestication of animals useful?
Source of foods
Materials for clothing, weapons, and tools

6. The transition: How might they have figured it out?
Experimenting with farming
Realized that it was more efficient to grow food than to forage (search) for it
This is the Neolithic Revolution!

7. Neolithic Revolution*
The shift from life as nomads hunting and gathering to farming
Began about 8000, B.C.
How did farming develop?

9. The influence of geography
What do you need to grow crops?
Water
Healthy soil
Early civilizations started near rivers because they needed a regular water source to irrigate their crops

10. Early challenges
What problems did the first farmers probably have to deal with?
Knowing how much water to use
What plants will work best
Dividing land
Rules had to be agreed upon
Punishments had to be decided on
Job specialization
Jobs had to be divided up

11. characteristics What is a characteristic?
There are specific major characteristics of civilizations.

12. Early Complex Societies
With your partner, skim read “The Early Complex Societies, 3500 to 500 B.C.E.” article for 6-8 minutes.
On the back of your warm-up paper (Historical Dates Review), list 3+ facts, characteristics or observations about life in early societies.
Be prepared to share something you find in the reading that is a Characteristic of Civilization.

13. Characteristics of Civilization
What characteristics of civilization did you find?
What things would find in different civilizations?

14. Is this beautiful?
Kirkenes, Norway- Arctic Circle

15. IS this beautiful?
Wazir Khan Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan

16. And one more… is this beautiful?
The Cave of Hands in Santa Cruz, Argentina, was probably painted 9,000 to 13,000 years ago.

17. Characteristics of Civilization
Cultural Development
Arts
Music
Common understanding of beauty
17,300 year old cave painting in Lascaux, France
A bowl from the early Indus civilization (India)

18. Characteristics of Civilization
2. Rise of Cities
Building permanent structures and buildings
Ancient city of Ur
In Mesopotamia

19. Characteristics of Civilization
3. Writing and Record Keeping
Used initially to keep political and business records
Also used for communication, to record traditions or literature and for learning

20. Characteristics of Civilization
4. Specialization of Labor
Because people were farming, not everyone had to be responsible for gathering food for survival
Jobs were divided among people to make work more efficient
People could specialize in a specific job (farmers, artisans, government officials, military experts, etc..)

21. Characteristics of Civilization
5. Institutions
Government, religion, economic, and education
With increased populations, it required more organization
Government was necessary to determine a leader and establish law

22. Characteristics of Civilization
6. Social Structure
Farming provided for more wealth
Resulted in some individuals having more personal wealth than others
When wealth is passed down in family, this creates social classes

23. Processing
On the chart, list the characteristics of civilization on the left
In the middle, draw a representation of the characteristic
In the right column, explain how this impacted people in early civilizations.

24. Example Cultural Development (picture of music notes, pottery)
Because of job specialization, some people were able to become musicians & artists in early societies

26. Complete the vocab using your textbook
Definitions will be found in the glossary: red edges, labeled with an R

27. Pass forward these assignments:
Development of Civilization Flow Chart (green)
Characteristics of Civilization (white)
Nametag
Entrance ticket/3 facts list (white 1/3 paper)
Vocabulary (blue) will be due Thursday
We should have access to online textbooks next week
These will be returned to you on Monday when we start our notebooks!

28. 2 minute video clip