1. AP World History-----8-29-18
Agenda:
Quick Review of Procedures
Early Humans discussion
Quiz on Friday
1st Essay—We start today!
HW: AP Regions, Oceans and Continent May Quiz on, , Read Chapter 2 by , posted on website, Period 1 Short Assessment on

2. Review Questions (Start answering as soon as you arrive in class)(Some answers can be found on your syllabus sheet)(Answer in Note Book)
How do you find out what you missed if you are absent?
Will Mr. Kibret accept late work?
What is the preferred writing utensil in Mr. Kibrets’ classroom? (Be Specific)
What are the 3 categories of grades at BHS?
What is more important in Mr. Kibret class? Skills or Facts? Explain

3. Early Humans to Early Civilizations
Chapter 1 – From Human Prehistory to Early Civilizations

4. With members of your POD discussion the following: (if I do NOT hear and see groups talking about the answers, I will require written responses)(Goal is for everyone to talk!)
What were characteristics of early Paleolithic Age?
What were characteristics of late Paleolithic Age?
Why can the word “revolution” be misleading in Neolithic revolution?
What were unique characteristics of Catal Huyuk?
What are some of the negatives of civilizations?
What do the following words mean: slash and burn, cuneiform, Neolithic revolution, civilization
What caused the agricultural revolution?

5. Paleolithic Age 2 million to 8,000 BCE

6. Developments of Paleolithic Age
100,000 BCE–humans evolved physically and mentally to the level of today
Opposable thumbs & developed brain
Paleolithic Achievements
Invention of tools & weapons
Language
Control of fire
Art (sculpture, jewelry, and cave paintings)
The greatest achievement is the sheer spread of the human species over much of the earth’s surface
Humans lived in small bands of hunter-gatherers

7. Migration 1st 150,000 years were exclusively African Into Eurasia
1st human revolution occurred through the development of culture
Characteristics
Tools from bones and made grindstones
Collection of food, hunting, and fishing
Movement occurred during the Ice Age about 20,000 years ago
Into Eurasia
1st the Middle East then to Europe about 45,000 years ago

8. Migration continued... Into Australia Into the Americas
More cave painting
Central Europeans saw more adaptation to environment
Multilayered clothes, bone needles,
Female figurines
Into Australia
About 60,000 years ago
Used boats
250 languages---Dreamtime??
Into the Americas
Between 30,000 to 15,000 years ago—How?

9. Migration continued part 3
1st people were the Clovis people
They disappeared but not sure why?
Mammoths died out!
Into the Pacific
Biggest waterborne migration
From southern China to the Philippines to Madagascar to island through the Pacific

10. Migration of Humans

11. Neolithic Revolution
Around BCE, two discoveries revolutionized human society
Farming (1st crops were wheat & barley)
Herding (1st domesticated animals were goats, pigs, & cattle)
Domesticated animals produced a new type of society called Pastoralists
Farming & herding allowed for urban development
1st cities emerged in Middle East (Turkey & Jordan)
Jericho and Catal Huyuk

12. Origins of Agriculture

13. Pastoral Societies Nomadic peoples who herd domesticated animals
Move in search of food for their animals
Traditionally more stable than hunter-gatherer societies
Develop on marginal land apart from areas suitable for agriculture, often semi-arid regions
Interact with agricultural societies

14. Pastoral Societies
Many pastoral nomads lived in kin-related bands numbering up to 100
Tribal membership was defined by recognizing a common ancestry among kinship groups
Often called Courage Cultures
Warlike males bound to each other by ties of personal loyalty tended to dominate these societies
Violence between kinship groups limited the ability of clans and tribes to cooperate
Most practice a form of animism or shamanism

15. Early Villages Earliest villages located in the Middle East
Population of early villages evolved from the hundreds to the thousands
Probably declined due to environmental degradation
Top: Artist rendering of the early village of Catal Huyuk; Bottom: statue of a goddess from Catal Huyuk

16. Life in Early Villages
Full-time political and religious figures emerge as community leaders
Specialized workers such as toolmakers, miners, and merchants
Despite specialization, well-defined social stratification did not exist
Farming & specialization of labor led to a decline in the role of women
Farming & specialized labor led to increase in technology
Pottery, the plow, irrigation, woven textiles, wheeled vehicles

17. World Population Growth
Intensive agriculture caused human population to jump from 5-8 million to 60 to 70 million in 5,000 years

18. Çatal Hüyük Area covered over 32 acres Largest early settlement.
Located in present day southern Turkey
Founded around 7000 BCE
Houses made of mud bricks and timber
Very crowded
Area covered over 32 acres

19. Rise of Civilization 4th Millennium BCE
New discoveries transformed permanent settlements into civilizations
Bronze
Writing
First civilization emerged in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) c BCE