World History Unit 1 Lesson 1

1. World History Unit 1 Lesson 1 Pre History

2. Focus Question Examine the role of agriculture and animal domestication played on the development of organized villages.

3. Key Terms • History • Archeology • Homo Sapiens • Paleolithic Era • Neolithic Era • domestication

4. What is Pre History? • What makes “history?” • Oral tradition • Written language • The record that is left behind • PreHistory • Anything before a written record was made

5. Do all cultures have a history? • No • Technically history is made when there is a written record • No written record-no history

6. Archeology • Archeology-the scientific study of historic or prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, and other remains.

7. Archeologist, not historian

8. Archeology • is the study of what happened before there was a written record that can be deciphered • There are records, but no one knows what they say • Evidenced based on: • Artifacts, bones, materials used, radiocarbon dating • Educated hypothesis

9. Before History • The Evolution of Homo Sapiens • 200,000 years ago Insert Map on page 10

10. Before History • The Evolution of Homo Sapiens • Homo Sapiens “wise thinking human” “Speech is an unparalleled medium for exchanging complex information, and it is also an essential part of social interaction in that most social of all creatures, Homo sapiens sapiens.” - Richard Leakey

11. Homo Sapiens • Emerged from Africa • Spread around world • 40,000 years ago began to use new technologies • Ex: using tree resin to bind stone blades on wood /bone shafts

12. Homo Sapiens • Paleolithic Society – foraged for food, hunted animals • Nomadic • Men and women equal • Men – hunted, provided meat • Women – gathered, provided plant foods

13. Chapter 1: Before History • Paleolithic Society • What is left behind • Burial Rituals • Clothing and Jewelry • Cave Art • tools

14. Chauvet Rhinoceros

15. Paleolithic Cutting tools

16. Chapter 1: Before History • The Neolithic Era and the Transition to Agriculture • The Origins of Agriculture12,000-6,000 years ago Insert map on page 22 - 23

17. Neolithic Era 8,000-4,000 BC Early Agricultural Society Domesticated plants and animals

18. Neolithic Era • Results in: • Development of cities • Development of tools • Polished, stone tools • Dev. Of ag. economies • Neolithic Culture • Early Astronomy

19. Neolithic Era • “new stone age” • 2 revolutions in food: 1. Domestication of animals • Sheep, goats, cattle, pigs • For food and non-food items 2. Agriculture cultivation of grains: barley, wehate, rice, rye

20. Neolithic Era • The Neolithic Era and the Transition to Agriculture • The Origins of Urban Life • Population Density

21. Impact of Agriculture • The Neolithic Era and the Transition to Agriculture • The Origins of Urban Life • Population Density • Specialized Labor

22. Impact of Agriculture • The Neolithic Era and the Transition to Agriculture • The Origins of Urban Life • Population Density • Specialized Labor • Complex Social Relations

23. Neolithic Era • Permanent settlements emerge • New specialized tasks: farming, herding • Increase of diseases • Raids by other villages • Land damaged by deforestation, erosion • Build up of salt in land

24. Neolithic Religion • Religion • Religion began to evolve • Maleness: source of rain and fertility of land • Femaleness: associated with earth