1. Launch:
What were some of the risks/problems with an agricultural community that were not as present in the paleolithic era?
Describe Metallurgy?
What are some ways that the Indus River Valley civilization in western India were more advanced than later civilizations?

2. How do you win? Explain the effects of the Agricultural Revolution on world history. .

3. Agricultural Revolution!

4. Effects of the Agricultural Revolution
What does this graph suggest was the effect of the Agricultural Revolution? Why?

5. Effects of Agricultural Revolution
Agriculture could provide more food than hunting and gathering. As a result, population increased.

6. How did the agricultural revolution affect the economy?
STIMULATION!!
(Stimulation- to happen quickly or rapidly)

7. Surplus The class is the agricultural community.
October: The harvest provides more food than hunting and gathering did. In fact, there is too much food!
Surplus = more than what is needed; extra
What could your community do to solve this problem of having a surplus of food? (15 min Conference) 
(everyone farms) 
(3 yellow index cards to represent wheat) 
(hand gesture for "full" for surplus)  7

8. Surplus

9. Specialization Next year, you decide you do not need to farm so much.
What will people do who are not farming?  (10 min Conference) 
These people take other jobs: potters, weavers, shamans (spiritual leaders). 
Specialization: a skill in one kind of work
, so only three continue to farm 9

10. Potter

11. Weavers

12. Shaman

13. Barter Economy
Now the potters have lots of pottery and the farmers have lots of food. What should they do?   (10 min conference) 
They traded.  
BARTER: people trade goods for other goods and do not use money.  
BARTER ECONOMY: An economy that does not use money, where people trade one good for another without using money. 

14. Barter Economy

15. Effects of the Agricultural Revolution

16. Comic Strips!
Make a cartoon strip that explains the effects of the Agricultural Revolution. 
Use textual evidence from your completed notes
Make sure to use your new vocabulary words correctly
If you were given a quiz on this material and the only thing you could use to help you was your comic strip, would it tell you enough about the material to do well??????