1. You Say You Want a Revolution... Learning Target 22 -- Identify when and where agriculture developed.

2. The “when” agriculture began...

3. Once upon a time...during the Paleolithic Era (“Old Stone Age”) Everybody (~100%) hunted and gathered (~2.6 mil ybp - ~10,000 ybp)

4. Then somebody decided to plant a seed, clone a plant, tame an animal... The Neolithic Revolution (“New Stone Age”) was born...farming and animal domestication began! ~10,000 -~12,000 ybp (8,000-10,000 BCE) Farming is so easy, it only took us homo sapiens ~190,000 years to figure out!

5. Why did people invent agriculture/domestication? Many theories...what do you think?

6. The “where” agriculture began...

7. Regions where agriculture/domestication (and other major ideas) began and spread from. Cultural Hearths

9. Reflect... Learning Target 22 -- I can...identify when and where agriculture developed.

10. It’s Poster Time! On your poster: 1)Where is your agricultural hearth region 2)When did it develop 3)What key agricultural products came from there 4)A statistic showing the importance today of one of the agricultural products 5)What connection do the agricultural products developed in this hearth region have on your lives today 6)At least 2 hand-drawn illustrations of products from this hearth