1. Do Now
Distribute Notebooks from milk crate up front.

2. Unit 2 Geographic Luck

3. Scale: your life so far

4. Scale: Mr. Best’s life

5. Scale: Mr. Best’s grandfather’s life

6. Scale: Since the founding of USA

7. Scale: AD (last 2016 years)

8. Scale: last 10,000 years

9. Neolithic Revolution
9,000 BC

10. What was life like before?

11. What was life like before?
Humans pursued their food
Might change locations 3-4 times per year.
Worked 4-7 hours/ day
Endemic violence

12. Agricultural Revolution
Humans started farming.
Humans built first permanent settlements.
Humans began to specialize.
People develop a “skill” or “trade”
12,500 years ago in some areas

13. Farming: what do you see?

14. Settlements: what do you see?

15. Specialization: what do you see?