1. Chapter One: Section Two
World History
Chapter One:
Section Two

2. Old Stone Age / Paleolithic Period 2 million B.C. – 10,000 B.C.
Prehistory – 2 eras
Old Stone Age / Paleolithic Period
2 million B.C. – 10,000 B.C.
New Stone Age / Neolithic Period
10,000 B.C. – 3,500 B.C.
Similarities - In both periods people used stone tools
Differences - New Stone Age – new skills and tech. that lead to changes in daily life

3. Early humans lived in the end of Old Stone Age
Nomads – people who move from place to place to find food
Lived in groups of
Men – jobs
Women – jobs
Made tools out of bone, wood, stone
Used fire for cooking and skins for clothing
Development of language …

4. 40,000 yrs. Ago people boated to SE Asia and Australia
Religion?
End of Old Stone Age/100,000 yrs., began burying their dead with great care
How is this a sign of a belief in afterlife?
Animism – belief that spirits reside in animals, objects, or dreams
Cave drawings, deep in caves away from living areas – religious rituals

5. How would life be different for a person that lives in a settlement compared to a nomad?

6. Neolithic Revolution
People began to be able to produce their own food
No longer needed to search for food
Could remain in one place year round
Established first permanent villages
Led to new technologies
Why is it called a revolution?

7. Domestication – raise plants and animals in ways best for human use
Realized seeds could be saved and planted
Rounded up animals that they hunted

8. Did the Revolution happen everywhere around the world at the same time?
China – 13,000 B.C. – dogs
Western Asia – 8,000 – 6,000 B.C. goats, sheep, pigs
Turkey and Africa domesticated cattle / S. America llama and alpacas, around the same time
10,000 B.C. – 6,000 B.C. Africa, SE Asia – yams
China – millet and rice
Central America and Mexico – squash, gourds
Middle East – barley, chickpeas, peas, lentils, wheat
After all this domestication – what life changes did people make?

9. First Neolithic Villages
Catalhuyuk – Turkey – 7,000 B.C.
6,500 people three times bigger than Jericho
Jericho – Israel – built 10,000 – 9,000 B.C.
Few thousand people lived there – small
Surrounded by a wall – What did that mean?

10. Gender Roles Work divided by gender
Men dominated family, economic, political
Also, heads of family
Older men = Council of Elders
Made important decisions – plant / harvest

11. Settlement
Ability to accumulate possessions and differences in wealth appeared
Farming – to be successful – needed new tech.
Invented calendars – why?,
Specialization in occupation – tools, weaving cloth from hair or vegetable fibers, clay pottery
Again: Technologies not created everywhere at the same time – slowly traveled – thousands of years
Some invented similar but separate showing diff. and sim.

12. By yourself:
What is one invention you could not do without? How has it changed your life? If it was gone, how would your life be different? Be specific.