1. Do Now: What do you need to make a cell phone?

2. Neolithic: Living in settled communities
Hunters- gatherers stayed in one place as long as the food lasted
Made storage bins for extra grain

3. Taming animals and sowing seeds
As people settled down, they learned from their environment
Observed stages of growth
noticed conditions
Left some plants to re-seed for new-crops
Learned about animal habits
Drove away other animals
Protected the herd
People began to plant their own seed and keeping animals
First evidence of domestication around BCE
Animals appearance changed
Depended on humans for survival

4. Farming as a way of life
Domestication lead to agriculture
Advantages:
Raise more food
Support more people
Move to new regions
Surplus could be traded or stored
Occupations:
Not everyone need to grow food
Brought division of labor
4. People changed the environment and lifestyles
Force wild animals out
Plants and trees cut down

5. 5. CHANGES Neolithic Era- used tools Lived in villages Made pottery
Weaving cloth and baskets
Working with Metal

6. Vocabulary Neolithic: New Stone Age Shrine: places of worship
Self-Sufficient: able to do things alone
Specialization of Labor: separate jobs
Culture: a way of life
Trade: the business of buying and selling or exchanging items.

7. Starting of Cities City of the Plain – UR (Sumer Mesopotamia)
Arose because of advances in agriculture and changes in society
Irrigation brought water to crops
Control when and how much water
Prevents famine and starvation

8. Features of a city
People work together – organized
Leaders make rules
Planning and building large public buildings
People employed in different jobs
Called specialization of lobar
Different social groups
Long distance trade

9. Early Civilization A complex society which has: Stable food supply
Specialization of labor
System of government
Social levels
Highly developed culture